The Effect of Different Feeding Methods and Non-nutritive Sucking Behaviours on Child Speech Development
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 135
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Percentage of Consonants Correct (PCC) on a single word naming test.
研究概览
简要总结
This study will look at whether there is a relationship between how babies are fed, whether they suck a dummy/hand and how they develop speech.
详细描述
Background:
In the UK every year around 48,000 children aged 2-5 years are referred to NHS Speech & Language Therapy (SLT) services with difficulties using the right sounds in their talking. This is known as speech sound disorders (SSD). This is the largest population seen by Speech and Language Therapists and costs the NHS about £24 million per year.
Children with SSD are more at risk of mental health problems and difficulties making relationships with those around them. They are also more likely to struggle with learning at school and be involved with the criminal justice system at some point in their early lives. When a baby is born parents make different choices about feeding their baby. Some breastfeed, some bottle-feed and some use a mixture of both. Some babies also like to have a dummy, while others suck their hand and some don't suck anything. Some studies have found that breastfeeding is linked to better language and learning in later childhood, while others have found that dummy sucking has the opposite effect.
However, the effect that different types of feeding have on speech development has not been looked at in as much detail.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Cohort
- 时间视角
- Other
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 24 Months 至 66 Months（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Children aged 2;0-5;6 on current speech and language therapy clinical caseloads in Hampshire (Solent NHS Trust) who have a diagnosis of speech sound disorder.
排除标准
- •Genetic Disorder (including Downs Syndrome and other identified syndromes) Other congenital anomaly (e.g Cerebral Palsy, Global Developmental Delay) Diagnosed Learning Disability Permanent Hearing Loss (Sensorineural) Cleft lip and/or palate and/or submucous cleft palate Premature birth (before 37 completed weeks gestation) English as second or additional language
结局指标
主要结局
Percentage of Consonants Correct (PCC) on a single word naming test.
时间窗: Outcome will be determined from data gained from the participants through assessment on a single clinic visit following recruitment.
PCC is a speech sound articulation test used to measure the number of correct consonant sounds produced compared to the number of consonant sounds attempted.
次要结局
- Presence of developmental and non-developmental error patterns in speech.(Outcome will be determined from data gained from the participants through assessment on a single clinic visit following recruitment.)
研究者
Samanth Burr
Clinical Academic Speech and Language Therapist
Solent NHS Trust