NCT00840060

Efficacy of AMALS in Treating Language Impairment in Children

AMALS: Addressing Multiple Aspects of Language Simultaneously: A Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Lamar University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 4 Years – 6 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this proposal is to examine the efficacy of a manualized treatment intervention, AMALS: Addressing Multiple Aspects of Language Simultaneously, which is designed to remediate semantic, morphological, and syntactic aspects of language in preschool children with language impairment. This study will target preschool children with language impairment living in a region characterized by nonmainstream dialects. Questions driving this work are: 1. Will children participating in the AMALS treatment exhibit greater semantic, morphological, and syntactic complexity on multiple outcome measures at the completion of the intervention compared to a Discrete Trial Approach (DTA) group? 2. Will these gains be maintained at one-month follow up? 3. What is the impact of dialect on dependent variables, specifically morphosyntactic abilities? To answer these questions a randomized clinical trial will be conducted comparing AMALS, an integrated approach to treatment, with DTA, an additive approach to therapy. In this study rather than restrict the ethnic and cultural backgrounds of this population, children's use of dialect will be uniquely identified and examined.

Conditions

• Language Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	AMALS	Addressing multiple aspects of language simultaneously
BEHAVIORAL	DTA	Discrete Trial Approach

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-01-01
• Primary completion: 2009-12-01
• Completion: 2010-12-01
• First posted: 2009-02-10
• Last updated: 2012-05-15
• Results posted: 2012-05-15

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: United States