Generalization With AI Navigation Using StaRt

Launched by NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · Mar 13, 2025

Keywords

ClinConnect Summary

This study will measure the effects of AI-guided home practice as a follow-up to participation in a study of technology-enhanced treatment for speech sound disorder affecting the American English "r" sound. Participants will sign a single consent form that covers their participation in the original VISIT study (in which they are randomized to receive biofeedback treatment in person or via telepractice) and and the follow-up GAINS study (in which participants are randomized to a follow-up period of treatment as usual \[TAU\] or treatment as usual plus an AI-guided maintenance program with bi...

Gender

ALL

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • • Must be between 9;0 and 17;11 (years;months) old at the time of enrollment.
• • Must speak English as the dominant or equally dominant language
• • Must have begun learning English by age 3, per parent report.
• • Must hear a rhotic dialect of English from at least one speaker in the home if the home language is English.
• • Must pass a pure-tone hearing screening.
• • Must pass a brief examination of oral structure and function.
• • Must demonstrate age-appropriate receptive and expressive language abilities on the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-5 (CELF-5).
• • Must have access to a laptop or desktop computer for study sessions.
• • Must have home wifi sufficient to support video calls in the event of randomization to the telepractice condition.
• • Must have completed participation in the VISIT randomized controlled trial.
• • Must score at least 60% correct in at least one treatment session during the related previous study, VISIT.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • • Must not exhibit voice or fluency disorder of a severity judged likely to interfere with the ability to participate in study activities.
• • Must not currently have orthodontia that crosses the palate and cannot be removed.
• • Must not have history of permanent hearing loss.
• • Must not have an existing diagnosis of developmental disability such as cerebral palsy or Down Syndrome.
• • Must not have history of major brain injury, surgery, or stroke in the past year.
• • Must not have epilepsy with active seizure incidents with in the past 6 months.
• • Must not show clinically significant signs of apraxia of speech or dysarthria.