Dynamic Assessment of the Risk for Language and Reading Disorders in Monolingual and Multilingual Children
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age4-9
SponsorIRCCS Eugenio Medea
About this trial
The project represents the completion of a part of the recently concluded European project MultiMind, in which a computer platform called MuLiMi was developed and validated. The platform hosts screening tests for the identification of the risk of Language and Learning Disorders in preschool and primary school children, respectively. The aim is to validate the Dynamic Assessment (DA) tests (a first test assessing the capacity to learn new words for preschool children and a second one assessing the capacity to learn a new spelling code for school-age children) in a population of monolingual and bilingual children attending preschool and primary school. The main goal of the study is to complete the validation of the two Dynamic Assessment tests implemented in the MuLiMi platform developed for the MultiMind project.
Eligibility criteria
This trial accepts healthy volunteersQualifiers
age 4-6 years (Kindergarten) or 7-9 years (Primary school);
Attendance at an Italian-language school in Italy or Switzerland/Germany.
(i) At least one parent speaks at least one language other than Italian in the family;
(ii) Continuous exposure to the Italian language for at least two years.
Disqualifiers
Intellectual disability, major psychopathological disorders, exposure to Italian language for less than two years.
Trial design
Design model
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
computerized Dynamic Assessment
Diagnostic testThe DA tests (with a duration of about 30 minutes) can be administered by accessing the digital platform MuLiMi, individually with the experimenter or examiner. The tests are in game form and require children to learn the names of characters presented in the context of stories (preschool version) or to learn new codes for reading and writing (primary school version). In both cases, the new materials (names or codes) are repeatedly presented to the child until (s)he reaches an accuracy threshold. The number of repetitions needed to reach the threshold constitutes the main measure of the child's learning capacity, together with the number of errors committed during the various cycles.
Treatment groups
150 Participants
are divided into 8 treatment groups8
Treatment groupsSee each treatment group below.
Group A: TD preschooler, monolingualActive comparator 1 intervention
Group B: TD preschooler, multilingualActive comparator 1 intervention
Group C: DLD preschooler, monolingualExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group D: DLD preschooler, multilingualExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group E: TD school-age, monolingualActive comparator 1 intervention
Group F: TD school-age, multilingualActive comparator 1 intervention
Group G: SRD school-age, monolingualExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group H: SRD school-age, multilingualExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
accuracy during task performance
total number and % correct answers, number and % errors during task performance
Time frame
one or two days (one or two consecutive sessions depending on participant's age, collaboration and fatigue)2
efficiency during task performance
number of repeated cycles, number of cycles needed to reach target performance
Time frame
Intervention occurs during assessment: assessment will last one or two days (one or two consecutive sessions depending on participant's age, collaboration and fatigue)Sponsors and contacts
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Source ClinicalTrials.gov