NCT05193500

Study 3 Learning Verbs and Pronouns

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 179 (actual)
• Sponsor: New York University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 24 Months – 71 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this research is to explore abilities to learn word meanings from overheard speech in children with ASD (and, as a control, typically developing children). Specific Aim 3 (Experiment 3): Determine whether children with ASD can learn verbs and pronouns by overhearing. Most prior work on learning from overheard speech has focused on learning nouns that label objects. This experiment extends this work to study other kinds of words.

Conditions

• Autism Spectrum Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Verbs	New verbs are introduced that are personally relevant to the child or neutral.
BEHAVIORAL	Pronouns	Pronouns are used that directly refer to the child or are neutral.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-08-01
• Primary completion: 2025-01-05
• Completion: 2025-01-05
• First posted: 2022-01-18
• Last updated: 2025-03-30
• Results posted: 2025-03-30

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States