Effects of Intensity of Early Communication Intervention

NCT00723151 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 70

Last updated 2010-11-01

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of the study is to determine if a more intensive application of communication intervention, i.e. 5 hours per week, will result in more frequent intentional communication acts, greater lexical density, and a better verbal comprehension level than children who receive the same communication intervention only one time per week.

Conditions

  • Communication Disorders
  • Developmental Disabilities

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Milieu Communication Teaching

Communication intervention targeting intentional communication and language skills provided either one hour per week or one hour per day, five days per week

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)

    collaborator NIH
  • University of Kansas

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Steven F. Warren, Ph.D. · University of Kansas

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Months
Max Age
27 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-07-31
Primary Completion
2010-09-30
Completion
2010-10-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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