NCT03663972

Age-related Correlates of Treatment for Late-acquired Sounds

Age-related Correlates of Treatment Efficacy and Efficiency for Late-acquired Sounds

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 16 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Wyoming · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 4 Years – 8 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Late-acquired sounds, such as /r/ are difficult to learn and many children experience persistent errors on these sounds. The purpose of the present study is to determine whether treating these sounds earlier in the child's life may result in better outcomes.

Detailed description

Late-acquired sounds, such as /r/ are difficult to learn and many children experience persistent errors on these sounds. However, these sounds are often treated later in a child's life because they are not expected to be fully acquired until quite late--age 7-8 for some sounds. This practice places treatment in a time of the child's development in which they struggle to learn new sounds.The purpose of the present study is to determine whether treating these sounds earlier in the child's life may result in better outcomes, and to examine treatment efficacy and efficiency for two methods of treatment.

Conditions

• Speech Sound Disorder
• Phonology Disorder
• Phonology Impairment
• Phonological Disorder
• Articulation Disorders in Children
• Developmental Phonological Disorder
• Speech Disorders
• Speech Delay
• Articulation Disorders, Developmental

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	articulation therapy	children receive instruction in producing new sounds at the isolation, syllable and word level.
BEHAVIORAL	phonologic treatment	children receive instruction in producing new sounds at the word level

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-06-11
• Primary completion: 2020-04-30
• Completion: 2020-04-30
• First posted: 2018-09-10
• Last updated: 2020-06-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States