N/A
N=6
Video Assisted Speech Technology to Enhance Motor Planning for Speech
Autism Spectrum Disorder · Apraxia of Speech
Bottom Line
View on ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04764539 ↗Enrolled (actual)
6
Serious AEs
0.0%
Results posted
May 2023
Primary outcome: Primary: Change in Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) — 0.5387; 0.2987 Morphemes per utterance — p=<0.555
Study Design & Population
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- N/A
- Interventions
- Video Assisted Speech Therapy (VAST) (Behavioral)
- Age
- Pediatric · 4+ yrs
- Sex
- All
- Sponsor
- iTherapy, LLC
- Primary completion
- Nov 2020
Outcome Measures
| Outcome | Result | p-value |
|---|---|---|
| PRIMARY Change in Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) |
0.5387; 0.2987 | <0.555 |
| PRIMARY Change in Percentage of Correctly Transcribed Words Using Automatic Speech Recognition |
1.388; 0 | <0.289 |
| PRIMARY Change in Articulation Accuracy |
19.75; 16.24 | 0.4296 |
| SECONDARY Parent Perceptions of Communication Changes, Resulting From Study Participation. |
11; 9.67 | <0.659 |
| SECONDARY Change in Type-Token Ratios |
30.158; 22.26 | <0.789 |
| SECONDARY Increase in Response Rate to Treatment Stimuli |
5.67; 3.33 | <0.485 |
Summary
Nearly 3.5 million Americans are diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), a communication disorder that causes skill limitations in the areas of language acquisition, sensory integration, and behavior. This lack of functional language ability limits conversation to its most basic parts, making daily tasks difficult for minimally to non-verbal individuals to achieve. iTherapy is developing the VAST platform, a personalized educational experience for students with ASD by creating a virtual reality-based video-modeling program to stimulate engagement and speech production practice, ultimately providing those with ASD an opportunity to enhance their quality of life by increasing their speech abilities which will enable them to build social networks and handle the events of daily life.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- Nonverbal-minimally verbal children (0-5 words)
- Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Exclusion Criteria
- No history of seizures for participating with VR goggles.
Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04764539). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication.