Exercise Training for Children with Communication Impairments
This study is looking at whether physical exercise can help children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and typically developing children improve their learning, fitness, and motor skills. Children will be randomly assigned to either an "Exercise" group, which involves cardiovascular, agility, balance, strength, and coordination training, or a "Restful Play" group, which includes activities like coloring and playing with Legos. The researchers will measure changes in word learning accuracy and reaction time to see if exercise makes a difference. You may be able to join if you are a child between 5 and 9 years old, speak English at home, and have normal hearing. The study aims to enroll 40 children.
- Study design
- This is an interventional study where participants will be randomly assigned to one of two groups: an exercise program or a restful play program. The study plans to enroll 40 children.
- What's involved
- Children will participate in either an exercise program or a restful play program. They will also undergo communication, fine/gross motor, and fitness testing before, immediately after, and at 4 and 12 weeks following the program.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Participants will be followed for 12 weeks after completing their assigned program.
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Exercise Training in Children With Communication Impairments
At a glance
Conditions
NCT06340893
Where you'd take part
This study runs at 1 site. They're the same protocol — you choose where, and that choice sets who your contact draft is addressed to.
Marquette U
Milwaukee, Wisconsinstudy coordinator listed
Recruiting
Sites open and close at different times, so the status above is per site — it can differ from the study's overall status.
Study leadership
- Jenya Iuzzini-Seigel, PhD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Marquette University
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What this trial measures
- Changes to cognitive-linguistic performance: Word learning accuracy (% correct)Pre-treatment, immediately post-treatment, and follow-up (4 and 12 weeks following completion of treatment)
Participants will complete a word learning task in which they are taught novel words and then tested on their recognition of the novel words. Accuracy on this task will be assessed at various time points. This task has previously been used to test effects of a brief bout of exercise (3 minutes) on word learning accuracy for children in the same age range.
- Changes to cognitive-linguistic performance: Reaction time on the Serial Reaction Time task (milliseconds)pre-treatment, immediately post-treatment, follow-up (4 and 12 weeks following completion of treatment)
The Serial Reaction Time task is a procedural learning task that tests learning of a 5-step visuospatial sequence. It has previously been used to demonstrate procedural learning gains and differences in children with childhood apraxia of speech, phonological disorder, language disorder, and typical development.