NCT00625261

Effectiveness of Early Parent-Based Language Intervention

Effectiveness of a Parent-Based Language Intervention Group Program for Two-Year-Old Children With Language Delay

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 150 (actual)
• Sponsor: Heidelberg University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 24 Months – 27 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to examine the effectiveness of a highly-structured parent-based language intervention group program for two-year-old children with language delay.

Detailed description

Language delay in toddlers is a prevalent problem for pediatric practitioners. As there are no clear guidelines to deal with this problem, in German speaking countries the "wait-and-see"approach is widely chosen, although longitudinal studies have found that children with language delay are at risc for cognitive, behavioral and social-emotional problems. During the last few years various forms of early language intervention have been increasingly implemented in German speaking countries. However, they have not been evaluated. Early parent-based intervention could be an economical way in prevention speech and language disorders.

Conditions

• Language Delay
• Developmental Language Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Heidelberg Parent-based Language Intervention HPLI	The HPLI is a group program for parents of young children with language delay. This 12-14week program includes seven two-our sessions and one three-our session six months later. It is designed for 5 to 10 people and based of an interactive model of language intervention, wich presumes that optimized parental input will provide better language-learning opportunities.

Timeline

• Start date: 2003-10-01
• Primary completion: 2008-02-01
• Completion: 2011-10-01
• First posted: 2008-02-28
• Last updated: 2008-02-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany