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NCT05602181

Effect of the ALL App on Literacy for Children Who Use AAC

UNKNOWN
NAAges 3–10InterventionalTreatment
Penn State University
~50 participants
Updated 2024-06-26 on ClinicalTrials.gov
What's tested:ALL Phonics InstructionALL Sight Word Instruction

At a glance

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What they're measuring
Change from Baseline Scores on the Early Literacy Assessment
Measured over Through study completion, an average of 8 months

Conditions

Literacy

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Where it's being run

1 sites across 1 states
Pennsylvania1

Study leadership

  • Jessica Caron, Ph.D. · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · The Pennsylvania State University

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Eligibility criteria

Inclusion

3 to 10 years old
present with speech and communication skills that did not meet all of their daily communication needs (e.g., have an AAC system; less than 50% intelligible at the single word level to unfamiliar partners if using speech)
follow one-step directions
symbolic communicators with use of at least 50 words/signs/picture icons expressively,
limited literacy skills (i.e., identify less than 26 letter-sound correspondences, 10 words during sound blending, 25 sight words on the screening assessment, and can spell less that 20 words)
not receiving consistent phonologically-based direct literacy instruction or receiving instruction in less than 2 of the tested skills
unimpaired or corrected vision and hearing
access to an iPad
Speaks English
Reads English
18 years of age or older
Spending time directly working with an individual with CCN who needs to learn to read
Willingness to implement the ALL curriculum and incorporate it into the daily educational plans

Exclusion

are under 3 years of age
do not present with severe speech disorders whereby they could use or benefit from AAC
can't follow one-step directions
are not symbolic communicators
are able to read at the connected text level
do not speak/understand English
impaired and uncorrected vision and hearing
do not have access to an iPad to use the ALL app
do not speak English
do not understand English
have impaired vision and hearing that is not corrected and impacts reading and hearing the child they work with
are not in daily direct contact with someone with CCN
unwilling to attend trainings related to the ALL app
unwilling to incorporate the ALL app into daily educational plans

What this trial measures

  • Change from Baseline Scores on the Early Literacy AssessmentThrough study completion, an average of 8 months

    We will examine the impact of literacy lessons delivered with the ALL technology on the change in scores on the Early Literacy Assessment (ELA) -specifically change in scores in the areas of letter-sounds, sound blending, phoneme segmentation, decoding, irregular sight words, and encoding.