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Total duration will be 90 minutes\u002Fweek over 16 sessions. Treatment will begin following the diagnostic evaluation.",[13],"Behavioral: Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing - Connect (DTTC-Connect)",{"label":15,"type":10,"description":16,"interventionNames":17},"Delayed Treatment","The Delayed Treatment Group serves as a control during the period in which participants are waiting to begin treatment. A delayed treatment onset is employed to control for maturation effects. Participants in the Delayed Treatment Group will receive Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing-Connect (DTTC-Connect) Treatment two times per week (45-minute sessions each) for 8 weeks. Total duration will be 90 minutes\u002Fweek over 16 sessions. Treatment will begin after an 8-week delay following the diagnostic evaluation.",[13],[19],{"type":20,"name":21,"description":22,"armGroupLabels":23,"otherNames":24},"BEHAVIORAL","Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing - Connect (DTTC-Connect)","DTTC-Connect is a motor-based intervention designed to improve speech accuracy in children with CAS by targeting movement transitions within phrases. Treatment begins with selecting a target phrase identified through dynamic assessment as being within the child's optimal challenge point. Using this initial target, four additional phrases are constructed that systematically build in structural, phonetic, and grammatical complexity to support gradual progression in motor skill. Treatment begins with two-word phrases and follows the first three levels of the DTTC temporal hierarchy: Simultaneous Production → Direct Imitation → Delayed Imitation. The final step is Elicited Production where children produce the target at random intervals in the absence of a prior model. Aligned with standard DTTC, children initially receive maximal support during Simultaneous Production. As accuracy improves, support is faded and the child progresses to less supported levels of production.",[15,9],null,[26],{"name":27,"affiliation":5,"role":28},"Maria I. Grigos, PhD","PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR",[30,35],{"name":31,"role":32,"phone":33,"phoneExt":24,"email":34},"Maria I Grigos, PhD","CONTACT","212.998.5230","maria.grigos@nyu.edu",{"name":36,"role":32,"phone":24,"phoneExt":24,"email":37},"Julie Case, PhD","julie.case@hofstra.edu",{"type":39,"investigatorFullName":24,"investigatorTitle":24,"investigatorAffiliation":24,"oldNameTitle":24,"oldOrganization":24},"SPONSOR",[41,43],{"name":42,"class":6},"Hofstra University",{"name":44,"class":45},"National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)","NIH","100633404","motor-based-intervention-for-childhood-apraxia-of-speech-dttc-connect-100633404",false,"NCT07526246","Motor-based Intervention for Childhood Apraxia of Speech: DTTC-Connect","A Randomized Control Trial of Motor-based Intervention for Childhood Apraxia of Speech: Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing-Connect (DTTC-Connect)","Inclusion Criteria:\n\n1. Diagnosis of childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). The diagnosis will be made by two speech language pathologists (SLPs) who have extensive experience in the differential diagnosis of CAS.\n2. Age between 3;6 and 12;11 years.\n3. Normal structure of the oral-peripheral mechanism as determined by a motor speech examination using established lab protocol.\n4. Participants must pass a hearing screening conducted at 20 dB SPL at 500, 1000, 2000 and 4000 Hz.\n5. Not receiving speech treatment elsewhere over the course of this study, although language, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) treatment, or similar non-speech treatment, would be permitted.\n6. Language Testing: Receptive Language Index standard score greater than or equal to 70 on the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals - Preschool 3rd edition (CELF-P3) for children 3;6-5;11 years of age, or the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals - 5th edition (CELF-5) for children 6;0-12;11 years of age.\n7. Nonverbal Cognition Testing: Standard score greater than or equal to 70 on the Developmental Assessment of Young Children-2nd edition (DAYC-2) for children 3;6- 5;11 years of age, or the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales- 2nd edition, Remote (RIAS) for children 6;0-12;11 years old.\n8. Evidence of multi-word spontaneous speech up to five syllables in length.\n9. English as the primary language.\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\n1. Primary dysarthria diagnosis, even if CAS is a secondary diagnosis.\n2. Abnormal structure of the oral peripheral mechanism.\n3. Fluency disorder, even if the child meets criteria for CAS.\n4. Conductive or sensorineural hearing loss, even if the child meets criteria for CAS.\n5. English is not the primary language.","ALL","3 Years","12 Years",{"count":57,"type":58},68,"ESTIMATED","INTERVENTIONAL",[61],"NA","Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a complex motor speech disorder that significantly limits a child's ability to communicate in daily activities, with difficulties often persisting into adolescence and adulthood. There is solid evidence that motor-based interventions, such as Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing (DTTC), improve word production in children with CAS. Building on this strong foundation, the next critical step is to extend this work to support functional communication in connected speech, where children with CAS often continue to struggle. There is a critical need for a systematic bridge within the context of treatment from word-level practice to connected speech, as robust word-level gains often fail to generalize to other speaking contexts. This work addresses this gap by transitioning children from word- to phrase-level practice using Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing-Connect (DTTC-Connect), a novel, structured adaptation of DTTC that targets connected speech production. Our approach builds on established DTTC principles while incorporating progression to more complex utterances, offering a developmentally appropriate, research-informed pathway to functional communication.\n\nThis study is a Phase II randomized controlled trial (RCT) designed to examine the efficacy of DTTC-Connect, a motor-based treatment that includes phrase-level practice to refine connected speech and support communicative participation for children with CAS. The overall objectives of this work are to test the efficacy of DTTC-Connect and document changes in speech motor control at the connected speech level in 68 children with CAS (3;6 - 12;11 years of age) who receive treatment twice a week for 8 weeks (16 sessions). The central hypothesis is that DTTC-Connect will lead to lasting improvements in phrase accuracy, speech intelligibility and speech motor control, ultimately enhancing a child's communicative participation.",[64],"Childhood Apraxia of Speech",[66,67,68],"Pediatric Motor Speech Disorder","Speech Motor Control","Communicative Participation","NOT_YET_RECRUITING","2026-06-24",{"date":72,"type":73},"2026-06-29","ACTUAL",{"date":75,"type":58},"2026-09-15",{"date":77,"type":58},"2031-03-31",{"name":5,"class":6}]