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Understanding Cognitive-Academic Bidirectionality in Math Learning Disabilities

NCT07220746 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 300

Last updated 2025-10-24

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Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to test the effects of an innovative intervention designed to improve math skills in first graders at risk for math disabilities. The main questions the trial aims to answer are:

* Does combining a math word problem solving intervention with a working memory intervention improve math to a greater extent than the same math intervention without cognitive training?
* Do the findings provide evidence for bidirectional effects on development? In other words, does working memory support math learning and does math learning support working memory development?

Screening for eligibility will take place in two testing sessions. Students who meet the eligibility criteria will be randomly assigned to one of three groups:

1. One treatment group will receive a validated treatment for math word problem solving plus computerized working memory training.
2. Another treatment group will receive the same validated math treatment plus computerized reading instruction.
3. A control group will receive the conventional school math program, including any additional school-provided intervention.

Participants in both treatment groups will receive 35 minutes of tutoring three times per week for 15 weeks.

Children who are selected to participate in the study will be tested once before this project's intervention begins; twice after intervention starts; twice after intervention ends; and once near the end of second grade to see how long effects last.

Conditions

  • Math Learning Disability

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Coordinated Treatment

Coordinated Treatment provides 15 weeks (3 35-minute sessions per week) of intervention. Each session comprises 2 components delivered contiguously by the same tutor: 15 min of working memory training, immediately followed by 20 min of math (arithmetic \& word-problem solving)intervention. Explicit transfer instruction is woven into both components.

BEHAVIORAL

Math Treatment

Math Treatment provides 15 weeks (three 35-minute sessions per week) of intervention. Each session comprises 2 components delivered contiguously by the same tutor: 15 min of computerized reading instruction, immediately followed by 20 min of math (arithmetic \& word-problem solving) intervention.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • Vanderbilt University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Years
Max Age
8 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-08-01
Primary Completion
2030-04-30
Completion
2030-04-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

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