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Exercise Training in Children With Communication Impairments

Marquette University · with University of Arizona · NCT06340893

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Key facts

Compensation
Not posted. Ask the study team before screening.
Who can join
Ages 5–9 · All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Study type
Interventional · Not applicable
Target enrollment
40
US sites recruiting
1
Study start
July 2, 2024
Record last updated
May 21, 2025

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What the study is about

This clinical trial study has two goals. The first goal is to establish fitness levels, participation in physical activities, and fine/gross motor abilities for children with development language disorder (DLD). DLD occurs in 1/13 children and children with DLD often have poorer fine/gross motor skills than those with typical development. The second goal is to determine whether physical exercise helps children with DLD and typical development to learn better and improve fitness and fine/gross motor abilities more than participating in restful play activities.

All children (DLD and typically developing) will undergo communication, fine/gross motor and fitness testing. Children will be randomly assigned to participate in an exercise program (n =20) or to a restful play program (n = 20). Both programs will take place 3x/week for 6 weeks and children will only participate in one of the two programs.

Children in the exercise program will do activities to train cardiovascular fitness, agility, balance, strength, and endurance while children in the restful play condition will do things like play with legos and color.

Researchers will compare changes in learning tasks and fitness levels for children (DLD and typically developing) who participated in the exercise program vs. restful play program.

Being studied: Exercise; Restful Play

Conditions: Developmental Language Disorder

Eligibility criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

Children with a diagnosis of developmental language disorder (DLD) or typically developing controls will be included.

All children will meet following inclusion criteria:

  • (1) between 5 and 9 years old at enrollment
  • (2) from homes where the primary language spoken is English
  • (3) normal hearing based on parent report and audiometric screening
  • (4) typical nonverbal cognition as determined by a T-score within 1.5 standard deviations of the mean on nonverbal subtests of the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales

Exclusion Criteria

Exclusionary Criteria are

  • (1) diagnosis of disorder that significantly affects social interactions (e.g., autism), as per referral diagnosis or which is identified during initial screening or assessment phase
  • (2) vision impairments that prevent participation in our experimental protocol
  • (3) inability for any reason to participate in assessment and/or treatment protocols

Recruiting US locations

  • Marquette U

    Milwaukee, WI 53201

    Site contact: Jenya Iuzzini-Seigel, PhD · 5854894683 · jenya.iuzzini-seigel@marquette.edu

Study contacts (from the official record)

  • Jenya Iuzzini-Seigel, PhD · 414-288-1529 · jenya.iuzzini-seigel@marquette.edu
  • Danielle Rice · danielle.rice@marquette.edu
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