Evaluating Treatment Efficacy of Two Syntactic Treatment Procedures for Children With Specific Language Impairment (SLI): A Randomized Controlled Trial

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

52

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

March 31, 2012

Primary Completion Date

August 31, 2012

Study Completion Date

December 31, 2012

Conditions
Language Impairment in School-years
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Syntax treatment via sentence-combining method

"Sentence combining method is a discrete trial method that teaches children to form complex sentences of a same structure through drilling and modeling.~Treatments are conduced by school-speech therapist once two weeks for 8 sessions."

BEHAVIORAL

Syntax treatment managed by narrative-based treatment

Target structures are embedded into narrative stories. Children are exposed to these stories and are scaffolded to form the target sentence structure through answering questions, cloze passage and story retell. Treatment are conduced by school-speech therapist once two weeks for 8 sessions.

Trial Locations (1)

HK

Carol K. S. TO, Hong Kong

All Listed Sponsors
lead

The University of Hong Kong

OTHER

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