Speech-language therapy for child social communication disorder

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Specialty: Children, Primary sub-specialty: General Paediatrics; Social communication disorder (SCD); Mental and Behavioural Disorders; UKCRC code/ Disease: Other/ General symptoms and signs

• Registration Number: ISRCTN48030419
• Lead Sponsor: The University of Manchester

Brief Summary

2020 results in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32983554/ (added 30/09/2020)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2017-01-10
• Study Completion: 2018-04-30
• Last Update Posted: 12 October 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 140

Inclusion Criteria

1. Age 6 -10 years
2. Parents/carers able to participate in intervention
3. Social communication problems as observed by the SLT - a minimum of two out of five behaviours from a brief social communication screening checklist
4. Non-verbal reasoning within normal limits (Percentile rank = 5) as measured on the Ravens Coloured Progressive Matrices
5. Score in the communication impaired range (<58) on the Children’s Communication Checklist -2 General Communication Composite (CCC) and in the SCD range on the CCC- 2 Social Interaction Deviance Composite

Exclusion Criteria

1. Children unable to participate in intensive intervention as judged by speech and language therapist
2. Diagnosis of core autism according to Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule ADOS-2
3. Significant hearing loss
4. Severe speech disorder
5. Severe physical disability

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified