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Understanding Sentence Prediction in Children with Developmental Language Disorder

This study is looking at how children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and children with typical development (TD) predict words in sentences. Researchers will use behavioral tasks, like verb knowledge, and eye-tracking to see how children process sentences. The study will involve 80 children, aged 5 to 7 years old, including both boys and girls. To join, children need to pass a hearing screening and have normal or corrected-to-normal vision, with no history of neurological disorders. Children with DLD will have a specific score on a language test (TNL-2 score less than 92), while children with TD will have a different score (TNL-2 score greater than 92). The study is currently unclear on its recruitment status.

Study design
This is an interventional study planning to enroll 80 participants. It will compare how children with Developmental Language Disorder and children with typical development predict words in sentences.
What's involved
Participants will complete verb knowledge tasks and sentence processing tasks during sessions. Eye-tracking gaze data will be collected during these sessions.
Compensation
Not stated in the trial record.
Follow-up
Behavioral response data and eye-tracking gaze data will be measured during sessions.

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NCT07510854

Sentence Prediction in Developmental Language Disorder

Recruiting
NAAges 5–7InterventionalBasic science
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
~80 participants
Updated 2026-04-06 on ClinicalTrials.gov
What's tested:Thematic roleSentence complexity

At a glance

Recruiting sites
1 of 1 listed site is recruiting right now
RecruitingSuspended, closed, or not yet open
What they're measuring
Behavioral response data
Measured over During sessions for verb knowledge tasks
+1 more outcome measured

Conditions

Developmental Language Disorder

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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.

  • Boys Town National Research Hospital

    Omaha, Nebraskastudy 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

Justin Kueser, PhD
[email protected]
531-355-5035
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Eligibility criteria

Inclusion

Pass a hearing screening at 25dB at 0.5, 1, 2, and 4 kHz
Have normal or corrected-to-normal vision
Have no history of neurological disorders
For DLD group, Test of Narrative Language 2 (TNL-2) score less than 92
For TD group, TNL-2 score greater than 92, a cut-off that provides excellent sensitivity/specificity (.92/.92).

Exclusion

Scores in the Autism range on the Childhood Autism Rating Scale 2 (CARS-2)
Scores below 75 on the Visual Spatial Index of the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence 4 (WPPSI-IV)

What this trial measures

  • Behavioral response dataDuring sessions for verb knowledge tasks

    For verb knowledge tasks, the investigators will measure children's button presses for accuracy.

  • Eye tracking gaze dataDuring sessions for sentence processing and event processing tasks

    During sentence processing and event processing, the investigators will measure children's looking to one or more images presented on-screen as a sentence is played (Aim 1) or as they point to images (Aim 3). The investigators will analyze how intervention conditions (thematic role and sentence complexity) influences children's looking patterns.