SPEECH SOUND DISORDER

This study tests whether artificial intelligence (AI) can help children ages 9 to 17 who have trouble saying the 'r' sound. All children will have weekly speech therapy sessions with a human clinician. Some will also practice with an AI clinician at the same time, while others wi…

This study tests whether showing children a real-time ultrasound image of their tongue movements can help them learn to pronounce difficult sounds more accurately. Sixty children with speech sound disorders will be randomly assigned to receive the ultrasound-guided therapy right …

This study looks at 84 children aged 9 to 17 who have trouble saying certain sounds like /r/ or /s/. Some children will get speech therapy twice a week for 8 weeks, while others will get the same total amount of therapy but in a shorter, more intensive 4-week schedule. The goal i…

This study tests a new way to help children ages 7 to 11 who have trouble saying the /s/ sound (like in 'snake'). Kids will have very short speech lessons (10 minutes each) four times a week for 8 weeks over video chat. Researchers will record their speech and have listeners rate…

This study looks at how children with developmental language disorder (DLD) learn patterns in speech and grammar. Researchers want to see if difficulties in both areas come from a general problem with learning sequences. The goal is to create better tests and treatments for these…

This study aims to find out which speech therapy targets help Spanish-English bilingual children with speech sound disorders learn the most. Sixteen children will attend 12 to 18 speech therapy sessions in either English or Spanish. Researchers will compare how well the children …