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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

Be younger than 18 years old

Timeline

Screening 3 weeks

Treatment Varies

Follow Up through study completion, an average of 8 months

Awards & highlights

No Placebo-Only Group

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.

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.

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.

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks3 visits

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~ through study completion, an average of 8 months

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

Study objectives can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.

Primary study objectives

Change from Baseline Scores on the Early Literacy Assessment

Secondary study objectives

Data from the Feasibility Adoption Acceptability Questionnaire (FAAQ)

Treatment and Acceptability Rating Form - Revised

Awards & Highlights

No Placebo-Only Group

All patients enrolled in this study will receive some form of active treatment.

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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