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Strategic and Interactive Signing Instruction Experiment

NCT06729164 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 150

Last updated 2025-11-24

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Summary

This RCT study involves teachers divided into an experimental group and a control group. Teachers in the experimental group will receive SISI training to support the sign language development of deaf children, while those in the control group will continue with "business-as-usual" teaching methods. Pre- and post-assessments will be conducted for all deaf children at the beginning and end of the school year.

Conditions

  • Sign Language Skills
  • Teacher Practice

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Strategic and Interactive Signing Instruction

Evidence-based instructional methods guided by cognitive, sociocultural, and linguistic theories that are applied to interventions supporting sign language development among deaf children.

BEHAVIORAL

Business-As-Usual Instruction

Teachers will teach business-as-usual without the inclusion of SISI.

Sponsors & Collaborators

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

    collaborator NIH

  • The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Leala Holcomb, PhD · Center of Deafness

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
4 Years
Max Age
12 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-04-01
Primary Completion
2026-07-30
Completion
2026-07-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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