Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Ms Jan Broomfield
ORCID ID
Contact details
Tees and North East Yorkshire NHS Trust
157 Southfield Road
Middlesbrough
Teesside
TS1 3HF
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1642 246603
jan@speechtherapy4kids.co.uk
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
RCT66 Broomfield
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
Is Speech and Language Therapy Effective with Children who have a primary Speech and Language Disability?
Sub-questions are:
1. Is the timing of such intervention significant?
2. Are there early prognostic indicators as compared with outcome?
Ethics approval
Not provided at time of registration
Study design
Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Not specified
Trial type
Not Specified
Patient information sheet
Condition
Mental and Behavioural Disorders: Speech disorders
Intervention
1. Brief immediate
2. Brief deferred and ongoing intervention
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Primary outcome measure
Statistical analyses of variance and regression will compare effects of intervention and prognostic indicators on outcome. The key outcome measure will be the reduction in the severity of the primary speech/language disability.
Secondary outcome measures
Not provided at time of registration
Overall trial start date
02/01/1999
Overall trial end date
08/01/2001
Reason abandoned (if study stopped)
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
Those children who are referred to Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) who have a primary speech/language disability in the absence of an attributable causal condition e.g. hearing loss, developmental disability or physical disability.
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Child
Gender
Not Specified
Target number of participants
Not provided at time of registration
Participant exclusion criteria
Not provided at time of registration
Recruitment start date
02/01/1999
Recruitment end date
08/01/2001
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
Tees and North East Yorkshire NHS Trust
Teesside
TS1 3HF
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Organisation
NHS R&D Regional Programme Register - Department of Health (UK)
Sponsor details
The Department of Health
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NL
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7307 2622
dhmail@doh.gsi.org.uk
Sponsor type
Government
Website
Funders
Funder type
Government
Funder name
NHS Executive Northern and Yorkshire (UK)
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Location
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Not provided at time of registration
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not provided at time of registration
Basic results (scientific)
Publication list
1. 2011 results in http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1460-6984.2011.00039.x/abstract