Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Dr A O'Hare
ORCID ID
Contact details
Community Child Health Department
Lothian University Hospitals NHS Trust
10 Chalmers Crescent
Edinburgh
EH9 1TS
United Kingdom
aohare@srv1.med.ac.uk
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
SP3536
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
To examine the efficacy of adaptive training in auditory temporal processing on specific language impairment.
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
Treatment
Patient information sheet
Condition
Language impairment
Intervention
Children were allocated to one of three groups:
Group A: received the 'FastForWord' intervention as a home-based therapy for 6 weeks
Group B: received commercially available computer-based activities designed to promote language as a control for computer games exposure
Group C: received no additional study intervention
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Applicable
Drug names
Primary outcome measure
Standardised measure of receptive and expressive language, assessing performance at baseline and at 9 weeks and 6 months.
Secondary outcome measures
No secondary outcome measures
Overall trial start date
01/01/2004
Overall trial end date
01/01/2005
Reason abandoned (if study stopped)
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
1. Children aged between the ages of 6 and 10 years, either sex
2. International Classification of Disease, 10th Revision (ICD-10) research criteria for specific receptive language impairment
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Child
Gender
Both
Target number of participants
77
Participant exclusion criteria
Does not meet inclusion criteria
Recruitment start date
01/01/2004
Recruitment end date
01/01/2005
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
Community Child Health Department
Edinburgh
EH9 1TS
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Organisation
Action Medical Research (UK)
Sponsor details
Vincent House
Horsham West Sussex
RH12 2DP
United Kingdom
Sponsor type
Charity
Website
Funders
Funder type
Charity
Funder name
Action Medical Research (UK)
Alternative name(s)
AMR
Funding Body Type
private sector organisation
Funding Body Subtype
Other non-profit organizations
Location
United Kingdom
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
2005 results in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16197283
Publication citations
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Results
Cohen W, Hodson A, O'Hare A, Boyle J, Durrani T, McCartney E, Mattey M, Naftalin L, Watson J, Effects of computer-based intervention through acoustically modified speech (Fast ForWord) in severe mixed receptive-expressive language impairment: outcomes from a randomized controlled trial., J. Speech Lang. Hear. Res., 2005, 48, 3, 715-729, doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2005/049).