Beatboxing and Residual Speech Errors

Speech Sound Disorder Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Impact of Beatboxing on the Management of Individuals With Residual Speech Errors

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Withdrawn

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03972449
• Other study ID #: DuquesneR21MusicHealth
• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 5, 2024
• Est. completion date: December 15, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: March 2023
• Source: Duquesne University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This project will study the effect of practicing speech sounds via beatboxing on speech accuracy, engagement in therapy, and functional outcomes for older children and adolescents with speech sound disorders (SSDs). Though SSDs exhibited by young children are often considered, SSDs are among the most frequent communication disorders in school-aged and adolescent children. SSDs can persist until adulthood. Individuals exhibit residual speech errors (RSE) when speech sounds are produced incorrectly after the age of eight, the age at which speech production is expected to be error-free. Common RSE include /r/, /s/, and /z/, all of which have high frequency in American English.

Beatboxing is a unique manipulation of the speech mechanism in which the individual creates repetitive, percussive and other instrumental sounds by actually being the instrument. Beatboxing is engaging and increasingly found in a variety of musical contexts and mainstream culture. The broad objective of this investigation is to explore the impact of beatboxing as an intervention tool on the speech produced and the functional outcomes attained by children with RSE compared to a traditional articulation therapy approach.The effect of a beatboxing intervention approach (BEAT-Speech) will be compared to traditional articulation therapy and employs a two-group pretest-posttest design. Specifically, the research aims to 1) assess the impact of beatboxing on speech sound production accuracy and amount of targets produced during therapy; 2) examine the relative level of client engagement of individuals exposed to beatboxing intervention; and 3) explore influences of beatboxing experiences on communication, activities, and participation in social and daily interactions.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Withdrawn
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: December 15, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: September 15, 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 8 Years to 16 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• diagnosed with a speech sound disorder due to residual speech sound errors

Exclusion Criteria:

• out of age range

• history of hearing, neurogenic, behavioral diagnoses that can contribute to speech disorder

• English is not first or preferred language

• concurrent treatment for speech goals

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Speech Sound Disorder

Intervention

Behavioral:
• BEAT-Speech
BEAT-Speech integrates beatboxing techniques within speech-therapy services for individuals with speech sound disorders.
• Traditional Articulation Approach
The traditional approach to treating speech sound disorders focus on one or two sounds at a time until they are mastered by the client. Perceptual and production training are used with target starting at simple (isolation) and moving to more complex (sentences). A variety of cues such as shaping and phonetic placement cues are used.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Duquesne University

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Speech sound accuracy: dichotomous ratings	rated by naive, blinded raters	within two years
Primary	Speech sound accuracy: visual analog scale ratings	rated by naive, blinded raters, will mark accuracy on a scale from 0-100 mm (not at all accurate to completely accurate). There is no formal name to this scale at this time given that it is novel to the study.	within two years
Primary	Phonetic accuracy	% of consonants correct determined by phonetic transcription completed by trained transcribers	within two years
Secondary	therapeutic engagement level	measured via clinician ratings and naive, blinded raters who will code nonverbal behaviors associated with engagement/disengagement	within two years
Secondary	Hopkins Rehabilitation Engagement Rating	five item quantitative questionnaire completed by instructors only after final session	within two years
Secondary	Pittsburgh Rehabilitation Rating Scale	single item questionnaire completed by instructors after each treatment session	within two years
Secondary	PROMIS (Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System) Pediatric Peer Relationship Scale	questionnaire completed by participants to assess impact of treatment on social activities and participation. Scale is from 0-4 which is from worse to best outcome.	within two years
Secondary	Adolescent Communication Questionnaire	assesses self-efficacy/individual's belief in their ability to make change and succeed in therapy. Scale is fro 1 to 5 with the lowest number being associated with the greatest amount of negative impact to the highest number being associated with no impact.	within two years
Secondary	Qualitative interview regarding functional outcomes	phenomenological approach to better understanding themes associated with this novel therapy approach and traditional therapy approach	within two years