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A Speech Sound and Phonemic Awareness Intervention in Flemish Early Childhood Education

NCT02313025 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2014-12-09

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Summary

The language intervention 'Kaatje Klank' is designed for stimulating the speech production and speech perception skills of 4-year-olds in an early childhood educational setting, in order to stimulate early literacy skills. These skills are crucial skills for technical reading in later ages. Good reading skills are an important condition for academic success.

To measure the effect of the language intervention 'Kaatje Klank', the intervention will be applied in six Dutch preschool classes (n = 100 children, 50% native speakers of Dutch, 50% non-native speakers) during 12 weeks (daily). Teachers will be trained and observed using a coaching trajectory.To measure the effect on speech production and perception skills, a pre- and posttest and a comparison with a matched control group (n = 100 children, 50% native speakers of Dutch, 50% non-native speakers) will be used. The control group will receive a different language intervention which focuses on vocabulary development (World-project).

Conditions

  • Other Developmental Disorders of Speech and Language

Interventions

OTHER

speech sound intervention

An intervention that stimulates speech sound perception and production in four-year-olds. Each day at preschool the children receive a 15 to 20 minutes intervention, for 12 weeks

OTHER

World-project

An intervention that stimulates vocabulary development in four-year-olds. Each day at preschool the children receive a 120 minutes intervention, for 10 weeks

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • KU Leuven

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lieve Van Severen, Dr · KU Leuven

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-01-31
Primary Completion
2015-07-31
Completion
2015-12-31

Countries

  • Belgium

Study Locations

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