Recruiting

Language Intervention

Sponsor:

University of Arizona

Code:

NCT07933822

Conditions

Developmental Language Disorder

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 5 - 7

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Recast therapy

Study Details

Brief summary:

The overall purpose of this project is to improve how 5 to 7 year old children who have trouble using language use complex sentences. The questions that this study is trying to answer are: Does this treatment help children use sentences with adverbial clauses (e.g., sentences with because, so that, when, until, etc.)? Do children maintain this learning over time?

Conditions

Developmental Language Disorder

Study ID

NCT07933822

Start date

Jul 20, 2026

Status verified date

Nov, 2026

Completion date

Jul 20, 2028

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jul 20, 2028

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 5 - 7

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Between ages 5 years, 0 months and 7 years, 11 months at the time of treatment onset.
  • Have spoken English since birth, with exposure to other languages acceptable
  • Normal hearing as indicated by a word-repetition task
  • Normal nonverbal skills as indicated by the nonverbal scale of the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (score above 84)
  • Impaired language as indicated by the Structured Photographic Expressive Language Test (below cut score for age)
  • Regular use of spoken sentences (contains both a subject and predicate)
  • Poor performance (below 50% accuracy) on pretreatment syntax probes (Generating sentences based on pictures and short orally-presented scenarios)

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Other developmental disabilities and handicapping conditions that could cause poor language skills (autism, intellectual disability, blindness, genetic disorders, neurologic disease or injury) by parent report, or significant speech-sound production disorder.
  • Native language skills other than English

Study Design

Enrollment

16 participants

Anticipated

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Treatment

Behavioral treatment

Interventions

Recast therapy

Children will listen to examples of adverbial clauses in stories and generate sentences containing these clauses, then hear clinician recasts of their sentences

Primary outcome measure

  • Sentence Generation Task [ Time Frame: Task is completed before each of 20 treatment sessions, starting with treatment session 1, over approximately 10 weeks. ]
  • Sentence Repetition Task [ Time Frame: At the end of the 10th week of treatment. ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Melissa White, M.A.

520-302-5641melissacwhite@arizona.edu

Locations

Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, University of Arizona

Recruiting

Tucson, Arizona, United States, 85721

Contacts

Melissa White, M.A.

520-302-5641melissacwhite@arizona.edu

Principal Investigator:

Melissa White, M.A.

More Information

Sponsor

University of Arizona

Last update posted

Nov 12, 2026

Last verified

Nov, 2026

Keywords

  • Behavioral treatment
  • Language
  • Adverbs

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-11-13. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Arizona on 2026-11-12. Recruitment status is synced daily from ClinicalTrials.gov and may not reflect the sponsor's current status. Confirm during your call.