Drumming Lessons' Influence on Children With Down Syndrome
ConditionDown Syndrome
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age7-15
SponsorVanderbilt University
About this trial
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if drumming lessons can increase self-control in children with Down syndrome. The main question it aims to answer is whether 2 months of drumming lessons can improve the behavioral control and timing skills in children with Down syndrome. Participants are between 7 and 15 years of age and receive two months of drumming lessons given by a professional drummer with extensive experience working with children with Down syndrome. Children in the experimental group visit our lab once before lessons start and once after lessons are completed. Children in the control group visit our lab twice before they start their lessons. Lab visits include brain recordings taken using a net-style cap, computer tasks, and drumming to music.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Down syndrome
Disqualifiers
Already taken drumming lessons
Uncorrected hearing loss
Uncorrected vision loss
Trial design
Design model
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
2 months of drumming lessons given by a professional drummer with extensive experience working with children with Down syndrome
BehavioralDrumming lessons consisting of how to use hands to drum on djembe drum, using alternating hands to drum, drumming to a metronome and to music.
Lessons after measurement
BehavioralReceiving lessons after the two lab visits should still offer any possible positive effects to participants while still allowing us to compare the Control group children's behaviors to those of the Experimental group.
Treatment groups
30 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsGroup A: Experimental groupExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: Control groupOther 1 intervention
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Zoo task
Behavioral "Go/No go" task done on a computer designed to assess children's inhibitory control
Time frame
Baseline to two months2
Statue task
Child is encouraged to 'become a statue' by holding their body in a position and not moving
Time frame
Baseline to two months3
Beat Perception
EEG measure of brain activity during passive listening to music
Time frame
Baseline to two months4
Beat production
EEG and behavioral measures of when child thinks beat is happening during music or metronome
Time frame
Baseline to two monthsSponsors and contacts
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Source ClinicalTrials.gov