Rural Autistic Individuals - Supporting Expression Study
This study is looking at how hand gestures can help people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other conditions like Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) or ADHD understand language better. Researchers will use special equipment like EEG (which measures brain waves) and fNIRS (which measures blood flow in the brain) to see how your brain responds to language with and without gestures. The goal is to help families in rural areas use gestures to improve communication. You can join if you have a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of ASD, a receptive language impairment, or both. Siblings and cousins are also welcome. The study aims to understand if gestures can improve language comprehension.
- Study design
- This interventional study plans to enroll 50 participants. It involves evaluating language comprehension with and without gestures.
- What's involved
- You would wear a cloth helmet with wires for EEG and fNIRS measurements. You would also complete three rounds of tasks involving passive viewing of pictures and videos on a computer screen.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Your brain responses will be measured from enrollment to completion of the study protocol within 3 months.
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Rural Autistic Individuals - Supporting Expression
At a glance
Conditions
NCT07054866
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.
Montana State University
Bozeman, Montanastudy 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.
Who to contact
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What this trial measures
- EEG/ERP brain responsefrom Enrollment to completion of study protocol within 3 months
In a pretest-test-postest set up, the researchers measure participants' EEG/ERP (electroencephalography/event related potentials) signals in microvolts first prior to exposure to gestures, just with visual animations and auditory words; then the investigators expose participants to visual gestures with auditory words; and finally participants are exposed to animations and auditory words again, to see if gestures contributed to any changes in EEG/ERP.