RECRUITING

The Relationship Between Child Language Proficiency and Language of Treatment on the Outcomes of Bilingual Children With Developmental Language Disorder

Study Overview

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Description

Of the 12 million children in the USA growing up bilingual, about 1 million experience Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), a disorder in language learning and use. Currently there is no guidance for speech language pathologists (SLPs) as to the language of intervention for bilingual children with DLD with differing degrees of proficiency with English or Spanish. This project will examine the relationship between relative language proficiency and the language of intervention, considering monolingual intervention in English and Spanish and bilingual intervention presented by alternating English and Spanish treatment sessions with the goal of improving language outcomes and thereby strengthening long-term academic achievement.

Official Title

The Relationship Between Child Language Proficiency and Language of Treatment on the Outcomes of Bilingual Children With Developmental Language Disorder

Quick Facts

Study Start:2023-08-08
Study Completion:2028-05-01
Study Type:Not specified
Phase:Not Applicable
Enrollment:Not specified
Status:RECRUITING

Study ID

NCT06085300

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Ages Eligible for Study:4 Years to 6 Years
Sexes Eligible for Study:ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:Yes
Standard Ages:CHILD
Inclusion CriteriaExclusion Criteria
  1. 1. parent concerns and/or a history of receiving services in the public schools
  2. 2. age-specific cutoffs for the morphosyntax subtests for their best language (English or Spanish) on the Bilingual English Spanish Assessment. The cut-off score for best language for 4-year-olds is 84, for 5-year-olds is 85, and for 6-year-olds is 81. Using the best-language approach, these scores have a sensitivity over 90% and specificity over 80% for children between 4;0 and 6;11 years of age , which is considered acceptable for studies of diagnostic accuracy.
  3. 3. nonverbal IQ, as measured by the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test-2, matrices subtest, will be at or above a standard score of 70.
  4. 4. pass a hearing screening test
  5. 5. participants must be bilingual, that is children must be producing at least simple sentences in spontaneous speech in both Spanish and English
  6. 6. participants must be able to benefit from treatment for both conditional adverbial clauses and complement clauses, as evidenced by accuracy below 40% on 10-item elicited production probes in both languages
  1. * 1) children with significant sensory-motor concerns or psychiatric disorders per parent report will not be enrolled.

Contacts and Locations

Study Contact

Anny Castilla-Earls
CONTACT
713-743-0488
annycastilla@uh.edu
Paula Nino Kher
CONTACT

Study Locations (Sites)

School Districst
Houston, Texas, 77204
United States

Collaborators and Investigators

Sponsor: University of Houston

Study Record Dates

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Study Registration Dates

Study Start Date2023-08-08
Study Completion Date2028-05-01

Study Record Updates

Study Start Date2023-08-08
Study Completion Date2028-05-01

Terms related to this study

Keywords Provided by Researchers

  • developmental language disorder
  • bilingual children
  • sentence recast
  • Bilingual proficiency
  • Language transfer

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

  • Developmental Language Disorder
  • Language Impairment