Intensive Speech Motor Chaining Treatment for Residual Speech Sound Disorders
Recruiting now · Phase 1/Phase 2
Conditions studied: Speech Sound Disorder
In brief
The goal of this randomized-controlled trial is to compare distributed treatment schedules and intensive treatment schedules in 84 school-age children with residual speech sound disorders. The main question it aims to answer is: * How does intensive and distributed treatment affect speech sound learning in residual speech sound disorder? Some participants will be treated with a traditional Distributed schedule of 2 sessions per weeks for 8 weeks (16 hours total), whereas others will be treated with an Intensive schedule and will complete 16 hours of treatment in 4 weeks.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT05929859
- Run by
- Syracuse University
- People needed
- 84
- Starts
- 2023-10-26
- Expected to finish
- 2028-02-29
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-01-13
Who can join
Age: 9 and older, up to 17. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Must speak American English as a dominant language.
- Must have began learning English by at least the age of 3 years.
- Must be between 9;0 to 17;11 years of age.
- Must have reported difficulty with /ɹ/ and/or /s/ production
- Must pass pure tone hearing screening at 25 dB at 1000, 2000, and 4000 Hz.
- Must receive a scaled score of at least 5 on the Listening Comprehension and Story Retelling subtests of the Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills (TILLS)
- Must receive a percentile score of 5 or below on the Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation-3 (GFTA-3) Sounds in Words subtest.
- Must have 1 scorable response with 5+ consecutive correct /pataka/ with > 3.4 syllables per second in the MRR-Tri task of the Maximum Performance Tasks OR must demonstrate no childhood apraxia of speech (CAS-only) features in BOTH articulatory and rate/prosody domains of the ProCAD.
- Must score <40% accurate on /ɹ/ and/or /s/ probes assessing these sounds at the word level.
- Must express a desire to modify their speech.
You may not qualify if…
- Must have no known history of autism spectrum disorder, Down Syndrome, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, permanent hearing loss, or brain injury.
- Must not have current cleft palate or voice disorder.
Where it is running
- Syracuse University — Syracuse, New York, United States (enrolling)
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