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The Short-term Verbal Memory Endophenotype for Developmental Language Disorder Language Disorder

NCT06968169 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 120

Last updated 2025-05-13

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Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to determine how memory and attention affect the ability of children with developmental language disorder (DLD) to learn and use new vocabulary.

Conditions

  • Developmental Language Disorder
  • Healthy Subjects

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Supportive learning

All interventions are manipulations to the stimuli that the child hears with the goal of discovering which manipulations support verbal learning.

BEHAVIORAL

Cascades

The intervention is a manipulation of word instruction with the goal of discovering whether weaker word learning results in cascading effects on semantic category memory and sentence comprehension.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Iowa

    collaborator OTHER

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    collaborator NIH

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

    collaborator NIH

  • Father Flanagan's Boys' Home

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Karla McGregor, Ph.D. · Boystown National Research Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-02-09
Primary Completion
2029-06-30
Completion
2030-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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