Clinical Trial: Oral Language in Children With Down Syndrome

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Unknown status
Study Type: Observational

Official Title: Oral Language in Children With Down Syndrome: Lexical, Syntactic and Semantic Aspects

Brief Summary: The objective of this research is to verify the language of children with Down syndrome concerning lexical, syntactic and semantic aspects using MLU. The hypothesis is that children with Down syndrome will present low performance, regarding not only the quantitative measures as MLU-m, MLU-w, GM-1 and GM-2, but also regarding the qualitative aspects of their production, when compared to children with typical development.

Detailed Summary: One of the alternatives to observe and assess language development and language disorders is to analyze spontaneous language samples, which allos the identification of qualitative and quantitative aspects. The analysis involves the MLU-morphemes, MLU-words and words classes. All words produced are analyzed, including interjections, adverbs and adjectives.Word classes with grammatical characteristics present lower averages, as prepositions and conjunctions. Reference parameters are the ones of the spoken language. The objective assessment with qualitative and quantitative data may help the speech and language pathologist/therapist to determine therapeutic guidelines to each patient.
Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo

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Information By: University of Sao Paulo

Dates:
Date Received: August 3, 2009
Date Started: August 2007
Date Completion: August 2009
Last Updated: August 4, 2009
Last Verified: August 2009