U.S., March 19 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT06880731) titled 'Training Inner Speech in Children with Developmental Language Disorder' on March 10.
Brief Summary: The complex and unclear relationship between language and executive function (EF) creates barriers to developing effective interventions for children with developmental language disorder (DLD) whose language difficulties often co-occur with impaired EF. Children and adults with typical language development (TD) facilitate their EF by using self-directed language, or verbal mediation, to guide conscious reflection and override habitual behaviors. Conversely, children with DLD do not use verbal mediation to support EF efficiently or ef...