NCT00607334

Experimental Word Learning in Children With and Without Language Impairment

Experimental Word Learning in Children With Normal Development and Children With Language Impairment

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 51 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 36 Months – 47 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare the performances of normally developing children and children with Language Impairment (LI) in three different experimental settings designed to promote vocabulary acquisition. This comparison will also provide evidence to support different intervention approaches designed to increase vocabulary abilities, which has been proved to be one of the major deficits of young children with LI.

Conditions

• Developmental Language Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Word-learning	Exposure to five nonwords for three sessions of controlled interaction with the experimenter
BEHAVIORAL	Word-learning	Exposure to five nonwords for three sessions of controlled interaction with the experimenter

Timeline

• Start date: 2003-07-01
• Primary completion: 2007-06-01
• Completion: 2007-07-01
• First posted: 2008-02-05
• Last updated: 2008-02-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil