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Rural Autistic Individuals - Supporting Expression

NCT07054866 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2025-07-10

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Summary

This research study investigates how hand gestures can support language comprehension and communication skills of hearing speaking, non-speaking, and/or minimally verbal individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), who are especially disadvantaged by the lack of accessible services in their rural communities. Individuals with other cognitive profiles, including Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), ADHD, Dyslexia, and others are welcome too. The study uses methods of eye tracking and recording of brain activity to understand how hand gestures adapted from signs from American Sign Language, such as \[cry\], can promote successful understanding of words like "cry". The overarching goal is to help families effectively utilize gestures to support communication with their children.

Conditions

  • Autism Disorder
  • Language Development Disorders
  • ADHD
  • Typical Development
  • Rural Health
  • Children
  • Neuroimaging
  • Eye Tracking
  • EEG
  • fNIRS

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Speech-Gesture combinations

this is a pretest, test, posttest evaluation of language comprehension with and without gestures, to see if gestures can improve language comprehension

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Montana State University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
2 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-07-31
Primary Completion
2026-12-31
Completion
2027-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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