Are you healthy and looking to help advance medical science?

You may be eligible to participate in a reading disability clinical study, and could be compensated for your time.

Are you healthy and looking to help advance medical science? You may be eligible to participate in a reading disability clinical study, and could be compensated for your time.

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Reading Disability Clinical Trial in Seattle WA

NCT03945097 | Observational

Are you healthy and looking to help advance medical science?

You may be eligible to participate in a reading disability clinical study, and could be compensated for your time.

Are you healthy and looking to help advance medical science? You may be eligible to participate in a reading disability clinical study, and could be compensated for your time.

Recruiting

Male & Female

60 - 72

Months old

This study is looking to recruit 44 Participants

Subjects are recruited for a pre-kindergarten education program focusing on early literacy skills. Primary outcomes are improvement in letter knowledge and changes in brain response to text.

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Details for the study

Population

Typically developing children

Brief Title

University of Washington Reading & Dyslexia Research Program

Official Title

University of Washington Reading & Dyslexia Research Program

Brief Summary

Subjects are recruited for a pre-kindergarten education program focusing on early literacy<br /> skills. Primary outcomes are improvement in letter knowledge and changes in brain response to<br /> text.

Treatments and/or Procedures

Pre k

Subjects enter and education program that either focuses on learning letters and their corresponding sounds or on language comprehension skills.

Outcome Measures

Outcome measures are the tests that investigators perform to prove whether or not a treatment being tested in a clinical trial is having any effect.

Primary

Letter Knowledge

Knowledge of letter names and sounds. This is computed as percent correct (out of 52). Each child is shown a flash card with each upper case letter and asked to name it and say its sound

Within 2 weeks post intervention

Study Criteria

Inclusion Criteria: Typically developing children enrolled before kindergarten.

  -  Typically developing child between 60 and 72 months of age

  -  Has not yet begun Kindergarten

Exclusion Criteria:

  -  Reported neurological or psychiatric condition.

  -  Claustrophobia. ADHD