NCT01352481

Early Intervention in Very Preterm Children

Early Intervention for Speech Sound Disorder in Very Preterm Children

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 25 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Erasmus Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 24 Months – 27 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

* The aim of the present study is to examine the effectiveness of a short, highly structured parent based speech intervention program on speech development in very preterm children with a Speech Sound Disorder (SSD) at 2 years of age. * The hypothesis of this study is that early intervention on speech development is effective in improving the speech development in preterm children with SSD at 2 years of age compared to a no treatment group (usual care at this age).

Conditions

• Prematurity
• Speech Sound Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Early parent-based speech intervention program	Seven 1h sessions during a three-month period.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-04-01
• Primary completion: 2013-04-01
• First posted: 2011-05-12
• Last updated: 2011-05-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Netherlands