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Oral Language in Children With Down Syndrome

NCT00952354 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2009-08-06

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Summary

The objective of this research is to verify the language of children with Down syndrome concerning lexical, syntactic and semantic aspects using MLU. The hypothesis is that children with Down syndrome will present low performance, regarding not only the quantitative measures as MLU-m, MLU-w, GM-1 and GM-2, but also regarding the qualitative aspects of their production, when compared to children with typical development.

Conditions

  • Down Syndrome

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • University of Sao Paulo

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Suelly CO Limongi, PhD · University of Sao Paulo

  • Rosangela V Andrade, PhD · University of Sao Paulo

  • Fabiola C Flabiano, PhD student · University of Sao Paulo

  • Porto Eliza, Ms student · University of Sao Paulo

  • Angela MA Carvalho, Ms student · University of Sao Paulo

Eligibility

Min Age
3 Years
Max Age
10 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-08-31
Primary Completion
2009-04-30
Completion
2009-08-31

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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