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Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and Lexical Gain in Children With Down Syndrome

NCT00689988 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 5

Last updated 2008-06-04

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Children with Down syndrome (DS) have language development particularities that have negative effects in the communication capacity. By this way, Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) is indicated to this population. The aim of this study was to verify the AAC impact in the lexical gain of children with DS.

Conditions

  • Down Syndrome

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

speech-language therapy with AAC intervention

speech-language intervention in weekly 40-minutes sessions, without the presence of parents or caregivers, and 5 to 10-minutes to parents training and orientation

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Sao Paulo

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sandra CF Pires, PhD student · University of Sao Paulo

  • Suelly CO Limongi, PhD · University of Sao Paulo

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
5 Years
Max Age
11 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-07-31
Primary Completion
2007-10-31
Completion
2008-06-30

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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