Caregiver Training for Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) Treatment
This study is looking at how different types of caregiver training affect treatment outcomes for children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS). Forty children, aged 2.5 to 7.9 years, will receive Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing (DTTC) therapy twice a week for eight weeks. DTTC is a therapy where children watch, listen to, and imitate a therapist to improve their speech. Caregivers will also do home practice with their children. The study wants to see if direct coaching for caregivers during therapy sessions leads to better speech accuracy compared to caregivers observing and then doing home practice. We will measure changes in word accuracy before, immediately after, and up to four weeks after treatment.
- Study design
- This interventional study plans to enroll 40 children with CAS. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of two groups: direct caregiver training or indirect caregiver training.
- What's involved
- Your child would receive DTTC treatment twice a week for eight weeks. Caregivers will complete an educational module, observe sessions, and do home practice with their child for 30 minutes, three times a week during treatment and six times a week during follow-up.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Your child's word accuracy will be measured one week and four weeks after the 8-week treatment period.
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The Effects of Caregiver Training on DTTC Treatment Outcomes in CAS
At a glance
Conditions
NCT05916222
Where you'd take part
This study runs at 2 sites. They're the same protocol — you choose where, and that choice sets who your contact draft is addressed to.
Hofstra University
Hempstead, New Yorkno site contact published
New York University
New York, New Yorkno site contact published
Sites open and close at different times, so the status above is per site — it can differ from the study's overall status.
Who to contact
This trial hasn't published a contact. View it on ClinicalTrials.gov
What this trial measures
- Changes in word accuracyPre- to post-treatment (16 treatment sessions over 8 weeks); 1-week and 4-week post-treatment follow-up
A multi-factor whole-word accuracy measure (Multilevel word Accuracy Composite Scale (MACS); Case et al., in press) of segmental accuracy, word shape maintenance, prosodic accuracy, and smoothness/fluency of movement transitions will be calculated for treated and generalization words. A MACS score ranges from 0 (all inaccurate) to 1.0 (all accurate). The higher the MACS score is to 1, the more accurate the production would be for that word. Judgments of word accuracy will be made by anonymous raters. The MACS will be used to address Aim 1(effect of DTTC combined with parent/caregiver coaching on speech production accuracy).