Network Connectivity and Temporal Processing in Adolescents Who Stutter
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age9-13
SponsorUniversity of Michigan
About this trial
The specific purpose of this clinical trial is to compare performance on rhythm perception and production tasks between children who stutter and children who do not stutter. The overall project also aims to investigate how performance on rhythm tasks may be related to brain activity (non-clinical trial).
Eligibility criteria
This trial accepts healthy volunteersQualifiers
English as primary language
Current or past stuttering diagnosis
English as primary language
Disqualifiers
Diagnosed/under treatment for any neurological or psychiatric conditions
Head trauma with loss of consciousness
Major medical illness
Hearing loss- Language/motor delay (below -2 standard deviations on standardized assessments)
Trial design
Design model
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
Rhythm discrimination
BehavioralParticipants will complete a rhythm discrimination task once per year for 3 years.
Treatment groups
500 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsGroup A: Children who stutterExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: Children who do not stutterExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Rhythm discrimination (d')
Performance on the rhythm discrimination task will be assessed using a signal detection analysis to distinguish between participants' ability to discriminate same and different rhythms from any general tendency to respond same or different. Hit rates (HRs) and false alarm rates (FARs) will be obtained to calculate d' (a measure of sensitivity; determined by z(HR) - z(FAR)).
Time frame
Year 12
Rhythm discrimination (d')
Performance on the rhythm discrimination task will be assessed using a signal detection analysis to distinguish between participants' ability to discriminate same and different rhythms from any general tendency to respond same or different. Hit rates (HRs) and false alarm rates (FARs) will be obtained to calculate d' (a measure of sensitivity; determined by z(HR) - z(FAR)).
Time frame
Year 23
Rhythm discrimination (d')
Performance on the rhythm discrimination task will be assessed using a signal detection analysis to distinguish between participants' ability to discriminate same and different rhythms from any general tendency to respond same or different. Hit rates (HRs) and false alarm rates (FARs) will be obtained to calculate d' (a measure of sensitivity; determined by z(HR) - z(FAR)).
Time frame
Year 3Sponsors and contacts
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University of Michigan
Lead sponsor
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov