Exercise Training in Children With Communication Impairments

Recruiting now · Not applicable · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Developmental Language Disorder

In brief

This clinical trial study has two goals. The first goal is to establish fitness levels, participation in physical activities, and fine/gross motor abilities for children with development language disorder (DLD). DLD occurs in 1/13 children and children with DLD often have poorer fine/gross motor skills than those with typical development. The second goal is to determine whether physical exercise helps children with DLD and typical development to learn better and improve fitness and fine/gross motor abilities more than participating in restful play activities. All children (DLD and typically developing) will undergo communication, fine/gross motor and fitness testing. Children will be randomly assigned to participate in an exercise program (n =20) or to a restful play program (n = 20). Both programs will take place 3x/week for 6 weeks and children will only participate in one of the two programs. Children in the exercise program will do activities to train cardiovascular fitness, agility, balance, strength, and endurance while children in the restful play condition will do things like play with legos and color. Researchers will compare changes in learning tasks and fitness levels for children (DLD and typically developing) who participated in the exercise program vs. restful play program.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06340893

Run by

Marquette University

People needed

40

Starts

2024-07-02

Expected to finish

2026-05-15

Last updated by the study team

2025-05-21

Who can join

Age: 5 and older, up to 9. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Children with a diagnosis of developmental language disorder (DLD) or typically developing controls will be included.
• All children will meet following inclusion criteria:
• (1) between 5 and 9 years old at enrollment
• (2) from homes where the primary language spoken is English
• (3) normal hearing based on parent report and audiometric screening
• (4) typical nonverbal cognition as determined by a T-score within 1.5 standard deviations of the mean on nonverbal subtests of the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales

You may not qualify if…

• Exclusionary Criteria are:
• (1) diagnosis of disorder that significantly affects social interactions (e.g., autism), as per referral diagnosis or which is identified during initial screening or assessment phase
• (2) vision impairments that prevent participation in our experimental protocol
• (3) inability for any reason to participate in assessment and/or treatment protocols

Where it is running

• Marquette U — Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States (enrolling)

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