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Generalization With AI Navigation Using StaRt
Sponsor: New York University
Summary
Speech Sound Disorder (SSD) affects a significant portion of school-aged children, leading to social and emotional challenges that can persist into adolescence and adulthood. The number of productions necessary for a remediated speech sound to generalize to connected speech is challenging to achieve in practice, leading clinicians to call for accessible, reliable resources allowing children to continue therapy outside of direct clinical interactions. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools hold promise as a means to extend direct service delivery in speech-language pathology, but research investigating the topic has been limited. This study (Generalization with AI Navigation using staRt, or GAINS) will measure the effects of a course of AI-mediated home practice intended to promote generalization of gains made through biofeedback treatment in a related study, Visual-acoustic Intervention with Service Delivery In-person and Via Telepractice Trial (VISIT; NCT06517225).
Official title: Randomized Trial of AI-Enhanced Maintenance Training With Visual-Acoustic Biofeedback
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
9 Years - 17 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
76
Start Date
2024-12-18
Completion Date
2029-07-01
Last Updated
2025-06-25
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
AI-guided maintenance training with visual-acoustic biofeedback
Participants will complete AI-guided practice in the home setting in which they will interact with a web interface of the staRt web-based software for speech practice. The staRt software will present words to practice and show a real-time visual display of the acoustic signal of speech (biofeedback). On select trials, feedback will be provided by a classifier for children's "r" sounds, PERCEPT. Research assistants will join sessions to facilitate but will not provide direct clinical guidance to participants.
Treatment as Usual (TAU)
Participants will return to their regular community-based care. This may consist of treatment in the school setting or by a private SLP; participants who were not previously receiving treatment may return to a no-treatment condition. Data will be collected from parents/guardians to determine the frequency of treatment, if any, received during this phase.
Locations (2)
Montclair State University
Bloomfield, New Jersey, United States
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York, United States