NCT02313025

A Speech Sound and Phonemic Awareness Intervention in Flemish Early Childhood Education

Spreken Verfijnen in de Kleuterklas: De Ontwikkeling Van Een Spraakdidactiek Als Uitbreiding op de Gangbare Taaldidactiek in Het Kleuteronderwijs

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: KU Leuven · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Years – 5 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The language intervention 'Kaatje Klank' is designed for stimulating the speech production and speech perception skills of 4-year-olds in an early childhood educational setting, in order to stimulate early literacy skills. These skills are crucial skills for technical reading in later ages. Good reading skills are an important condition for academic success. To measure the effect of the language intervention 'Kaatje Klank', the intervention will be applied in six Dutch preschool classes (n = 100 children, 50% native speakers of Dutch, 50% non-native speakers) during 12 weeks (daily). Teachers will be trained and observed using a coaching trajectory.To measure the effect on speech production and perception skills, a pre- and posttest and a comparison with a matched control group (n = 100 children, 50% native speakers of Dutch, 50% non-native speakers) will be used. The control group will receive a different language intervention which focuses on vocabulary development (World-project).

Conditions

• Other Developmental Disorders of Speech and Language

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	speech sound intervention	An intervention that stimulates speech sound perception and production in four-year-olds. Each day at preschool the children receive a 15 to 20 minutes intervention, for 12 weeks
OTHER	World-project	An intervention that stimulates vocabulary development in four-year-olds. Each day at preschool the children receive a 120 minutes intervention, for 10 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-01-01
• Primary completion: 2015-07-01
• Completion: 2015-12-01
• First posted: 2014-12-09
• Last updated: 2014-12-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium