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ALL App Literacy Program for Children

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Waitlist Available
Led By Jessica Caron, Ph.D.
Research Sponsored by Penn State University
Eligibility Criteria Checklist
Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial
Must have
Present with speech and communication skills that do not meet all of their daily communication needs (e.g., have an AAC system; less than 50% intelligible at the single word level to unfamiliar partners if using speech)
Unimpaired or corrected vision and hearing
Timeline
Screening 3 weeks
Treatment Varies
Follow Up through study completion, an average of 8 months
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Study Summary

This trial tests a literacy program for kids with limited or no speech to help them learn & develop literacy skills.

Who is the study for?
This trial is for English-speaking and reading school support personnel working with children aged 3-8 who use AAC due to speech challenges. The children should have limited literacy skills, not be receiving consistent phonics-based instruction, and must have access to an iPad.Check my eligibility
What is being tested?
The study tests a literacy app called Accessible Literacy Learning (ALL). It compares the effectiveness of ALL Sight Word Instruction versus ALL Phonics Instruction on improving literacy in children using AAC over 100 lessons.See study design
What are the potential side effects?
There are no medical side effects associated with this trial as it involves educational interventions. However, participants may experience varying degrees of engagement or frustration depending on their individual responses to the learning material.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

You may be eligible if you check “Yes” for the criteria below
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My speech and communication do not fully meet my daily needs.
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My vision and hearing are normal or corrected to normal.

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks
Treatment ~ Varies
Follow Up ~through study completion, an average of 8 months
This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and through study completion, an average of 8 months for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.
Primary outcome measures
Change from Baseline Scores on the Early Literacy Assessment
Secondary outcome measures
Data from the Feasibility Adoption Acceptability Questionnaire (FAAQ)
Treatment and Acceptability Rating Form - Revised

Trial Design

2Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Active Control
Group I: ALL Phonics InstructionExperimental Treatment1 Intervention
Lessons for the treatment group will be 30-min. long using the ALL app with a known service provider. Lessons will include systematic instruction with four subskills per session (e.g., letter-sounds, sound blending, typing, and sight words). The words and subskills with rotate based on the data collected and the machine learning within the technology. The child will complete 100 lessons. The systematic instruction with subksills (e.g., sound blending, decoding) includes 10 trials per word and an instructional sequence that introduces the skill, two models, six trials of guided practice, and two trials of independent practice with corrective feedback.
Group II: ALL Sight WordActive Control1 Intervention
Lessons for the comparison group will be 30-min. long using the ALL app with a known service provider. Lessons will include systematic instruction with sight words. The child will also complete 100 lessons.No phonics instruction will be provided to this group through the ALL app.

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Who is running the clinical trial?

Penn State UniversityLead Sponsor
353 Previous Clinical Trials
125,674 Total Patients Enrolled
Jessica Caron, Ph.D.Principal InvestigatorThe Pennsylvania State University

Media Library

ALL Phonics Instruction Clinical Trial Eligibility Overview. Trial Name: NCT05602181 — N/A
ALL Phonics Instruction 2023 Treatment Timeline for Medical Study. Trial Name: NCT05602181 — N/A
Literacy Research Study Groups: ALL Phonics Instruction, ALL Sight Word
Literacy Clinical Trial 2023: ALL Phonics Instruction Highlights & Side Effects. Trial Name: NCT05602181 — N/A

Frequently Asked Questions

These questions and answers are submitted by anonymous patients, and have not been verified by our internal team.

What is the eligibility criteria for taking part in this trial?

"This medical study is recruiting 50 patients aged between three and eight with limited literacy. To be eligible, candidates must possess speech and communication skills which do not satisfy their daily needs (for instance, having an augmentative and alternative communication system or being less than half intelligible when using a single word to unfamiliar speakers), obey one-step instructions, demonstrate symbolic expression of at least fifty words/signs/picture icons, have restricted literacy capabilities (including identifying fewer than 26 letter-sound correspondences during sound blending tests involving 10 words as well as 25 sight words on the screening test; also only able to spell up to twenty terms correctly), no"

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Are any individuals over the age of 30 being included in this research?

"This trial aims to enrol patients aged between 3 and 8 years old, while the same research team are running 5 distinct trials for participants both under 18 and over 65."

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Are there any vacancies remaining in this research endeavor?

"According to information on clinicaltrials.gov, the recruitment phase for this particular medical trial has concluded. The study was first announced in October of 2022 and last edited over three weeks later; however, there are 10 other studies that are currently recruiting participants at present."

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~22 spots leftby Jun 2025