RECRUITING

AI-Assisted Treatment for Residual Speech Sound Disorders

Study Overview

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Description

The goal of this randomized-controlled trial is to determine how artificial intelligence-assisted home practice may enhance speech learning of the "r" sound in school-age children with residual speech sound disorders. All child participants will receive 1 speech lesson per week, via telepractice, for 5 weeks with a human speech-language clinician. Some participants will receive 3 speech sessions per week with an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-clinician during the same 5 weeks as the human clinician sessions (CONCURRENT treatment order group), whereas others will receive 3 speech sessions per week with an AI-clinician after the human clinician sessions end (SEQUENTIAL treatment order group.

Official Title

AI-Assisted Treatment for Residual Speech Sound Disorders

Quick Facts

Study Start:2024-03-12
Study Completion:2027-12
Study Type:Not specified
Phase:Not Applicable
Enrollment:Not specified
Status:RECRUITING

Study ID

NCT05988515

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:9 Years to 17 Years
Sexes Eligible for Study:ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:Yes
Standard Ages:CHILD
Inclusion CriteriaExclusion Criteria
  1. * Must speak a rhotic dialect of American English as a dominant language.
  2. * Must have begun learning English by at least the age of 3 years.
  3. * Must be between 9;0 to 17;11 years of age.
  4. * Must have reported difficulty with /ɹ/ production.
  5. * Must have reported hearing within normal limits.
  6. * Must receive a Scaled Score of 5 or above on both the Listening Comprehension and Story Retelling subtests from the Test of Integrated Language \& Literacy Skills (TILLS).
  7. * Must receive a percentile score of 8 or below on the Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation-3 (GFTA-3) Sounds in Words subtest.
  8. * 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.
  9. * Must score \<40% accurate based on word-level items from our /ɹ/ probe list.
  10. * Must score \>=15% accuracy on /ɹ/ on 45 syllables following Dynamic Assessment.
  11. * Must express interest in changing their /ɹ/ production.
  12. * Must have oral structure and function that are appropriate for /ɹ/ production.
  13. * Must have access to broadband internet with videoconferencing capabilities
  1. * Must have no known history of autism spectrum disorder, Down Syndrome, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, permanent hearing loss, epilepsy/antiepileptic medication, or brain injury/neurosurgery/stroke.
  2. * Must not have diagnosis of attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Tourette's, or Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  3. * Must have no orthodontic appliances that block the roof of the mouth (e.g., palate expanders).
  4. * Must not have current cleft palate, fluency disorder, or voice disorder.
  5. * Must not demonstrate childhood apraxia of speech (CAS-only) features in BOTH articulatory and rate/prosody domains of the ProCAD.

Contacts and Locations

Study Contact

Jonathan Preston, PhD
CONTACT
315-443-1351
jopresto@syr.edu
Nina Benway, PhD
CONTACT
nrbenway@syr.edu

Study Locations (Sites)

Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York, 13244
United States

Collaborators and Investigators

Sponsor: Syracuse University

Study Record Dates

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Study Registration Dates

Study Start Date2024-03-12
Study Completion Date2027-12

Study Record Updates

Study Start Date2024-03-12
Study Completion Date2027-12

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

  • Speech Sound Disorder