Speech Intervention Via Telepractice for Children With Repaired Cleft Palate

NCT07434375 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 64

Last updated 2026-02-27

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Summary

The goal of this interventional study is to see if online speech therapy works just as well as face-to-face speech therapy in children with cleft palate. The main purposes are:

To compare the speech accuracy of target sounds in words produced by children with cleft palate between online and face-to-face speech therapy.

To compare the gain in speech accuracy in sentences produced by children with cleft palate between online and face-to-face speech therapy.

To assess whether changes in speech intelligibility are perceived by parents. To explore what kinds of factors influence speech accuracy. To explore speech training accuracy and speech understandability training accuracy during speech therapy sessions in children with CP

Participants will participate in 30-minute speech intervention sessions twice a week for 10 weeks, either in-person or online.

Conditions

  • Cleft Palate Children
  • Speech Sound Disorder

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Speech therapy via teleprace

Children with cleft palate will participate in 30-minute speech therapy sessions twice a week for 10 weeks

BEHAVIORAL

Face-to-face speech therapy

Children with cleft palate will receive treatment maintaining the same frequency as the intervention group.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
5 Years
Max Age
11 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-03-02
Primary Completion
2029-01-01
Completion
2029-01-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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