Study 3 Learning Verbs and Pronouns

Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Trial

Official title:

Study 3 Learning Verbs and Pronouns

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05193500
• Other study ID #: 280523
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: August 1, 2022
• Est. completion date: March 1, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: October 2023
• Source: New York University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this research is to explore abilities to learn word meanings from overheard conversations in children with ASD (and, as a control, typically developing children).

Specific Aim 3 (Experiment 3): Determine whether children with ASD can learn verbs and pronouns by overhearing. Most prior work on learning from overheard speech has focused on learning nouns that label objects. This experiment extends this work to study other kinds of words.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 179
• Est. completion date: March 1, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: February 1, 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 24 Months to 71 Months

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• children with or without a diagnosis of ASD between 24 to 71 months of age

• minimum language and nonverbal cognition age of 24 months

Exclusion Criteria:

• native language is not English

• born premature (< 36 weeks)

• has uncorrected hearing or vision impairments

• has developmental disorders or medical conditions other than ASD that affect language or cognition (excepting psychiatric conditions often comorbid with ASD such as ADHD)

• has a history of photosensitive epileptic seizures

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Autism Spectrum Disorder

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Addressed Speech
New words are introduced directly to the child by an experimenter.
• Overheard Speech
New words are introduced with the child as a bystander rather directly taught.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Emerson College	Boston	Massachusetts
United States	New York University	New York	New York

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
New York University	Emerson College

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Object selection	The first object that children touch after being prompted.	During test phase of the experimental session (e.g., within 5 seconds)