Intensive Speech Motor Chaining Treatment for Residual Speech Sound Disorders

Description

The goal of this randomized-controlled trial is to compare distributed treatment schedules and intensive treatment schedules in 84 school-age children with residual speech sound disorders. The main question it aims to answer is: * How does intensive and distributed treatment affect speech sound learning in residual speech sound disorder? Some participants will be treated with a traditional Distributed schedule of 2 sessions per weeks for 8 weeks (16 hours total), whereas others will be treated with an Intensive schedule and will complete 16 hours of treatment in 4 weeks.

Conditions

Speech Sound Disorder

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Study overview

The goal of this randomized-controlled trial is to compare distributed treatment schedules and intensive treatment schedules in 84 school-age children with residual speech sound disorders. The main question it aims to answer is: * How does intensive and distributed treatment affect speech sound learning in residual speech sound disorder? Some participants will be treated with a traditional Distributed schedule of 2 sessions per weeks for 8 weeks (16 hours total), whereas others will be treated with an Intensive schedule and will complete 16 hours of treatment in 4 weeks.

Intensive Speech Motor Chaining Treatment for Residual Speech Sound Disorders

Intensive Speech Motor Chaining Treatment for Residual Speech Sound Disorders

Condition
Speech Sound Disorder
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Syracuse

Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, United States, 13244

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Must speak American English as a dominant language.
  • * Must have began learning English by at least the age of 3 years.
  • * Must be between 9;0 to 17;11 years of age.
  • * Must have reported difficulty with /ɹ/ and/or /s/ production
  • * Must pass pure tone hearing screening at 25 dB at 1000, 2000, and 4000 Hz.
  • * Must receive a scaled score of at least 5 on the Listening Comprehension and Story Retelling subtests of the Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills (TILLS)
  • * Must receive a percentile score of 5 or below on the Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation-3 (GFTA-3) Sounds in Words subtest.
  • * Must have 1 scorable response with 5+ consecutive correct /pataka/ with \> 3.4 syllables per second in the MRR-Tri task of the Maximum Performance Tasks OR must demonstrate no childhood apraxia of speech (CAS-only) features in BOTH articulatory and rate/prosody domains of the ProCAD.
  • * Must score \<40% accurate on /ɹ/ and/or /s/ probes assessing these sounds at the word level.
  • * Must express a desire to modify their speech.
  • * Must have no known history of autism spectrum disorder, Down Syndrome, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, permanent hearing loss, or brain injury.
  • * Must not have current cleft palate or voice disorder.

Ages Eligible for Study

9 Years to 17 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Syracuse University,

Jonathan Preston, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Syracuse University

Study Record Dates

2027-12