Building Oral Language Skills to Support Literacy and Academic attainment of Primary School Children

ISRCTN	ISRCTN85746281
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN85746281
Secondary identifying numbers	N0243142064

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Individual participant data

Record updated in last year

Plain English summary of protocol

Not provided at time of registration

Mrs Magda Moorey
Scientific

Lewisham Primary Care Trust, Childrens Services
Ivy House
Bradgate Road
Catford
London
SE6 4TT
United Kingdom

Phone	+44 (0)20 7771 5347
Email	magdalene.moorey@lewishampct.nhs.uk

Study design	Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design	Interventional
Secondary study design	Randomised controlled trial
Study setting(s)	Other
Study type	Treatment
Scientific title
Study objectives	Does a short term, focused intervention to build the oral language skills of children at risk of academic failure have a positive impact on the attainment of these children in formal national assessment?
Ethics approval(s)	Not provided at time of registration
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied	Language skills and literacy
Intervention	Please note that as of 29/06/10 it has been confirmed that this trial was stopped due to lack of staff and resources. Pilot RCT. Intervention consists of 9 sessions of speaking and listening activities developed by the investigator for the study.
Intervention type	Other
Primary outcome measure	Scores in national educational assessment tests
Secondary outcome measures	Not provided at time of registration
Overall study start date	01/12/2003
Completion date	31/03/2006
Reason abandoned (if study stopped)	Lack of staff/facilities/resources

Participant type(s)	Patient
Age group	Child
Sex	Both
Target number of participants	Number of participants 60 (30 per cell)
Key inclusion criteria	1. School children identified by participating school as "at risk of academic underachievement" 2. Consent obtained from guardian 3. Child "Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals UK-3" completed
Key exclusion criteria	All children with language age below 70 (in these cases referral is made to the SLT clinical service)
Date of first enrolment	01/12/2003
Date of final enrolment	31/03/2006

Lewisham Primary Care Trust, Childrens Services

London
SE6 4TT
United Kingdom

Department of Health
Government

Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NL
United Kingdom

Government

STaRNet London (UK)- NHS R&D Support Funding

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