A comparison of the performance of monolingual English and bilingual (English/Punjabi) children at 24 months of age on an expressive language assessment

ISRCTN	ISRCTN27197768
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN27197768
Protocol serial number	N0071177196
Sponsor	Record Provided by the NHSTCT Register - 2006 Update - Department of Health
Funder	Sheffield Health and Social Research Consortium (UK)

Submission date: 29/09/2006
Registration date: 29/09/2006
Last edited: 04/10/2011

Recruitment status: No longer recruiting
Overall study status: Completed
Condition category: Other

Prospectively registered

Protocol

Statistical analysis plan

Results

Individual participant data

Record updated in last year

Plain English summary of protocol

Not provided at time of registration

Contact information

Ms Deeba Akram
Scientific

Speech and Language Therapy Agency
North Quadrant
Sheffield
S5 6NU
United Kingdom

Phone	+44 (0)114 2716292
Email	hcp04da@sheffield.ac.uk

Study information

Primary study design	Interventional
Study design	Randomised controlled trial
Secondary study design	Randomised controlled trial
Scientific title
Study objectives	What are the patterns of language use amongst the bilingual children at 24 months of age?
Ethics approval(s)	Not provided at time of registration
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied	Patterns of language use among the bilingual children at 24 months of age
Intervention	A randomised controlled study design will be adopted to collect the data. The 'First Words and Sentences Test' consists of Checklist A and B and Test book A and B. The participants will be randomly allocated either Set A or Set B of the test material. All the parents/carers of the participants of the study will be asked to complete a brief questionnaire about the child's language environment. They will be asked about the different languages spoken in the home to the child and the different domains in which they are used. Following this, the 'First Words and Sentences Test' by Bill Gillham & James Boyle will be used to investigate the above research questions. The test will consist of a parent checklist followed by direct testing using the 'First words Test' book. The checklist consists of a number of single words and parents will be asked to indicate whether their child is able to produce the word spontaneously in either English or Punjabi (an exact transcription of this will be done). In addition parents will be asked to report one other words that their child is able to produce spontaneously in either English or Punjabi. Following this the child will be shown the 'First Words Test' book and asked to label the pictures in either English or Punjabi. If the child produces a response in one language they will be asked if they know the word for it in the other language. All of the child's responses will be written down as well as recorded on a DAT recorder.
Intervention type	Other
Primary outcome measure(s)	The total number of words (in both English & Punjabi) reported by the parents and produced spontaneously by the child will be noted.
Key secondary outcome measure(s)	Not provided at time of registration
Completion date	31/08/2006

Eligibility

Participant type(s)	Patient
Age group	Child
Sex	All
Target sample size at registration	35
Key inclusion criteria	35 subjects who are English/Punjabi bilinguals aged 24 months and living in two Sure Start areas (Sharrow & Tinsley) of Sheffield.
Key exclusion criteria	Not provided at time of registration
Date of first enrolment	16/02/2006
Date of final enrolment	31/08/2006

Locations

Countries of recruitment

United Kingdom
England

Study participating centre

Speech and Language Therapy Agency

Sheffield
S5 6NU
United Kingdom

Results and Publications

Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share	No
IPD sharing plan summary	Not provided at time of registration
IPD sharing plan