More and Less Social Comprehension

Description

The goal of this early Phase 1 clinical trial is to assess if the social content of a story impacts autistic children's listening comprehension of stories. The main questions this study aims to answer are: * Does removing social content from a story improve listening comprehension in autistic children? * Does listening comprehension of more social versus less social stories differentially predict performance on a standardized reading comprehension measure? Participants will listen to more social and less social stories while viewing accompanying pictures and answer comprehension questions about the stories and complete a standardized assessment of reading comprehension. In addition, participants complete measures of their nonverbal cognition, hearing status, autism severity, language abilities, and social communication abilities to help characterize individual differences in participants.

Conditions

Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Study overview

The goal of this early Phase 1 clinical trial is to assess if the social content of a story impacts autistic children's listening comprehension of stories. The main questions this study aims to answer are: * Does removing social content from a story improve listening comprehension in autistic children? * Does listening comprehension of more social versus less social stories differentially predict performance on a standardized reading comprehension measure? Participants will listen to more social and less social stories while viewing accompanying pictures and answer comprehension questions about the stories and complete a standardized assessment of reading comprehension. In addition, participants complete measures of their nonverbal cognition, hearing status, autism severity, language abilities, and social communication abilities to help characterize individual differences in participants.

More and Less Social Comprehension: Child and Text Factors for Autistic Children

More and Less Social Comprehension

Condition
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Lawrence

University of Kansas Comprehension and Language Learning Lab, Lawrence, Kansas, United States, 66045

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.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Has a community or educational autism diagnosis (based on parent report);
  • * Is between the ages of 9;0 to 12;11 (years; months);
  • * Uses verbal phrase-level spoken language (based on parent report).
  • * Speaks more than one language (based on parent report);
  • * Has a known chromosomal abnormality (e.g., Fragile X syndrome, Down syndrome; based on parent report);
  • * Has an intellectual impairment or cognitive disability (IQ \< 70; based on parent report);
  • * Has Cerebral palsy (based on parent report);
  • * Uncorrected visual impairments (based on parent report);
  • * Minimal spoken language or no phrase spoken language (based on parent report or clinical observation).

Ages Eligible for Study

9 Years to 12 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Kansas Medical Center,

Meghan M Davidson, PhD, CCC-SLP, STUDY_DIRECTOR, University of Kansas Department of Speech-Language Hearing: Communications and Disorders

Study Record Dates

2024-12