Emergent Bilinguals: Child Language Proficiency and Language of Treatment
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age4-6
SponsorUniversity of Houston
About this trial
Of the 12 million children in the USA growing up bilingual, about 1 million experience Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), a disorder in language learning and use. Currently there is no guidance for speech language pathologists (SLPs) as to the language of intervention for emergent Spanish-English bilingual children with DLD. This project will examine the relationship between language proficiency and the language of intervention, considering monolingual intervention (Spanish or English) and interleaved Spanish-English intervention with the goal of improving language outcomes and thereby strengthening long-term academic achievement
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
parent concerns and/or a history of receiving services in the public schools
age-specific cutoffs for the morphosyntax subtests for their best language (English or Spanish) on the Bilingual English Spanish Assessment. The cut-off score for best language for 4-year-olds is 84, for 5-year-olds is 85, and for 6-year-olds is 81.
nonverbal IQ, as measured by the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test-2, matrices subtest, will be at or above a standard score of 70.
pass a hearing screening test
Disqualifiers
None
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Sentence recast
Treatment groups
40 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsSponsors and collaborators
University of Houston
Lead sponsor
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Collaborator
University of Delaware
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov