The effect of the Gradual Increase Length and Complexity of Utterance ??(GILCU) program and the Phonological Processing Treatment and the gradual increase of the length and complexity of speech and phonological processing combined treatment method (GILCU-PPT) on children's stuttering

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• Conditions: Stuttering.; Adult onset fluency disorder; F98.5

• Registration Number: IRCT20230219057445N1
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of social welfare and rehabilitation sciences

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Last Update Posted: 13 March 2023

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Pending
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 33

Inclusion Criteria

At least 12 months have passed since the start of stuttering according to the parents' report.
Children should be in preschool age (4 to 6 years old).
Considering that the participants are selected from the waiting list, they should not have a history of stuttering treatment using the program of gradually increasing the length and complexity of utterance and phonological processing treatment in the 12 months before the start of the study, and other treatments are past, at least one month .
The child's stuttering is diagnosed based on all three diagnostic criteria of Yairi and Ambros, meaning that: a. A speech and language pathologist will diagnose the child as stuttering. b. The severity of the child's stuttering on the 8-point SR scale by the parents should be 2 or higher. c. The child should show at least three SLDs in the spontaneous speech sample of 100 syllables.
Not neurological damage, language damage, sensory and motor damage ,according to parents' reports and the relevant tests by a speech and language pathologist and medical documents .
Not social and emotional disorders according to the results of the Vineland Social Skill Scale by a psychologist.
Not using drugs that affect the results according to parents' reports and medical documents.
The child should be monolingual and Farsi speaking, according to the parents' report.
Not cognitive disorders ,according to Forward and backward digit span and Wechsler's non-verbal and cubes tests.
Based on the hearing screening test (audiometry of frequencies 2000, 250, 500, 1000 dB), the child should not have a hearing problem.
The child should be right-handed

Exclusion Criteria

The child's medical document is not complete.
According to the parents' report and the medical documents, the child has be a disease that affects the results of this study
Less than 12 months have passed since the onset of stuttering.

Study & Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Stuttering severity, percentage of stuttered syllables or ss%. Timepoint: Three times before the start of the intervention and once after the end of the intervention and once in the follow-up phase one month after the intervention. Method of measurement: Speech Sample and counting, ? ?Stuttering severity instrument-3?.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Communication attitude. Timepoint: Before the start of the intervention, after the end of the intervention, in the follow-up phase one month after the end of the intervention. Method of measurement: Answer to the question.