Reading Difficulties Clinical Trial
Official title:
Study of the Interest of Proprioceptive Therapy as a Complement to Speech Therapy in Children With Reading Difficulties
Before proposing this observational study protocol, a randomized study was attempted. This
consisted in proposing to families of children with difficulties in learning to read, via
the speech therapists who were treating them, to take part in a randomized trial that
compared speech therapy alone with a combination of speech therapy and proprioceptive
therapy. If parents agreed in principle with the study, the child underwent a complementary
speech therapy examination and was referred to the nearest investigating doctor for
inclusion. However, this study had to be abandoned because of insufficient recruitment (2
patients included in 1 year). Despite the motivation and training of participating speech
therapists, proposing a study based on randomization to families often in distress proved to
be extremely difficult, as their conviction of the interest of proprioceptive therapy was
greater than the available scientific evidence suggested. Direct recruitment by
investigating ophthalmologists was not possible because they were consulted directly by the
families so as to obtain proprioceptive therapy. The principle of randomization would thus
not have been accepted.
In light of the above, we decided to turn towards a non-randomized study comparing outcomes
in two groups of children:
- children who consulted an ophthalmologist who proposed proprioceptive therapy in Côte
d'Or
- children managed by one of the four speech therapists who do not propose proprioceptive
therapy and who accepted the principle of the study.
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Allocation: Non-Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label
| Status | Clinical Trial | Phase | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enrolling by invitation |
NCT04318106 -
Reading; Through the Eyes of a University Student
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N/A |