Improving outcomes of preschool language delay in the community

Not Applicable

Completed

Conditions: anguage delay at four years of age
Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Specific developmental disorders of speech and language

Registration Number: ISRCTN03981121

Lead Sponsor: Royal Children's Hospital (Australia)

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 1500

Inclusion Criteria

The trial will involve all subjects who as babies and toddlers participated in two completed population-based trials - Let's Read and Let's Learn Language (ISRCTN20953675). These were conducted in eight local government areas across Melbourne, Australia. Children will be invited into the new trial as they turn 4 years old.
Eligible participants will be
1. Children who, at 4 years of age, have expressive and/or receptive language scores more than 1 SD below the normative mean on the CELF-P2
2. Their parents

Exclusion Criteria

1. Intellectual disability
2. Major medical conditions
3. Hearing loss greater than 40 dB Hearing Loss (HL) Scale in the better ear
4. Autism spectrum disorders
5. Parents who need an interpreter

Most such children are already excluded as they have demonstrated competence in their previous research trial.

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Direct assessment of child?s expressive and receptive language ability and expressive and receptive vocabulary; all collected at 5 and 6 years.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Parent reported pragmatic skills, behaviour, health related quality of life and service utilisation<br>2. Direct assessment of child's word recognition, sentence comprehension and a proxy for non-verbal intelligence quotient (IQ)<br>3. Teacher reported language, social, emotional, cognitive and physical wellbeing