Exercise Training in Children With Communication Impairments

Part of paid clinical trials in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Sponsor
Marquette University
Study ID
NCT06340893
Status
Recruiting
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Conditions

  • Developmental Language Disorder

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
5 Years - 9 Years
Healthy Volunteers
Accepted

Interventions

  • Exercise — BEHAVIORAL
    Participants will participate in cardiovascular, agility, balance, strength and coordination training.
  • Restful Play — BEHAVIORAL
    This group will engage in restful play activities such as coloring and playing with legos.

Study Details

This clinical trial study has two goals. The first goal is to establish fitness levels, participation in physical activities, and fine/gross motor abilities for children with development language disorder (DLD). DLD occurs in 1/13 children and children with DLD often have poorer fine/gross motor skills than those with typical development. The second goal is to determine whether physical exercise helps children with DLD and typical development to learn better and improve fitness and fine/gross motor abilities more than participating in restful play activities. All children (DLD and typically developing) will undergo communication, fine/gross motor and fitness testing. Children will be randomly assigned to participate in an exercise program (n =20) or to a restful play program (n = 20). Both programs will take place 3x/week for 6 weeks and children will only participate in one of the two programs. Children in the exercise program will do activities to train cardiovascular fitness, agility, balance, strength, and endurance while children in the restful play condition will do things like play with legos and color. Researchers will compare changes in learning tasks and fitness levels for children (DLD and typically developing) who participated in the exercise program vs. restful play program.

Key Dates

Start date
Jul 2, 2024
Status verified
May 2025
Primary completion
Dec 31, 2025
Completion
May 15, 2026

Study Design

Enrollment
40 participants (estimated)
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT

Arms

  • Experimental: Exercise
    This group will receive treatment 3x/week for 6 weeks
  • Sham Comparator: Restful Play
    This group will receive treatment 3x/week for 6 weeks.

Primary Outcome Measure

Changes to cognitive-linguistic performance: Word learning accuracy (% correct) [ Time Frame: Pre-treatment, immediately post-treatment, and follow-up (4 and 12 weeks following completion of treatment) ]

Central Contacts

Locations (1)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
Marquette UMilwaukeeWisconsin53201
Jenya Iuzzini-Seigel, PhD
[email protected]
5854894683

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