Clinical Trial: Experimental Word Learning in Children With and Without Language Impairment

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional

Official Title: Experimental Word Learning in Children With Normal Development and Children With Language Impairment

Brief Summary: The purpose of this study is to compare the performances of normally developing children and children with Language Impairment (LI) in three different experimental settings designed to promote vocabulary acquisition. This comparison will also provide evidence to support different intervention approaches designed to increase vocabulary abilities, which has been proved to be one of the major deficits of young children with LI.

Detailed Summary:
Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo

Current Primary Outcome: Performance on a post-test administered after every word-learning session. [ Time Frame: Three weeks ]

Original Primary Outcome: Same as current

Current Secondary Outcome: Occurence of correct spontaneous productions of the taught words during the experimental procedure [ Time Frame: Three weeks ]

Original Secondary Outcome: Same as current

Information By: University of Sao Paulo

Dates:
Date Received: January 22, 2008
Date Started: July 2003
Date Completion:
Last Updated: January 22, 2008
Last Verified: October 2007