protocolSection identificationModule nctId: NCT06340893, orgStudyIdInfo id: 76117, briefTitle: Exercise Training in Children With Communication Impairments, statusModule overallStatus: NOT_YET_RECRUITING, startDateStruct date: 2024-04-01, primaryCompletionDateStruct date: 2024-08-31, completionDateStruct date: 2024-08-31, studyFirstPostDateStruct date: 2024-04-02, lastUpdatePostDateStruct date: 2024-04-02, sponsorCollaboratorsModule leadSponsor name: Marquette University, class: OTHER, collaborators name: University of Arizona, descriptionModule briefSummary: This clinical trial study has two goals. The first goal is to establish fitness levels, participation in physical activities, and fine/gross motor abilities for children with development language disorder (DLD). DLD occurs in 1/13 children and children with DLD often have poorer fine/gross motor skills than those with typical development. The second goal is to determine whether physical exercise helps children with DLD and typical development to learn better and improve fitness and fine/gross motor abilities more than participating in restful play activities.All children (DLD and typically developing) will undergo communication, fine/gross motor and fitness testing. Children will be randomly assigned to participate in an exercise program (n =20) or to a restful play program (n = 20). Both programs will take place 3x/week for 6 weeks and children will only participate in one of the two programs.Children in the exercise program will do activities to train cardiovascular fitness, agility, balance, strength, and endurance while children in the restful play condition will do things like play with legos and color.Researchers will compare changes in learning tasks and fitness levels for children (DLD and typically developing) who participated in the exercise program vs. restful play program., conditionsModule conditions: Developmental Language Disorder, designModule studyType: INTERVENTIONAL, phases: NA, designInfo allocation: RANDOMIZED, interventionModel: PARALLEL, interventionModelDescription: Participants will be randomly assigned to the exercise intervention group or to the restful play (sham) condition., primaryPurpose: TREATMENT, maskingInfo masking: SINGLE, maskingDescription: Outcome assessors will be blinded to group and will be different to those conducting the interventions., whoMasked: OUTCOMES_ASSESSOR, enrollmentInfo count: 40, type: ESTIMATED, armsInterventionsModule interventions name: Exercise, interventions name: Restful Play, outcomesModule primaryOutcomes measure: Changes to cognitive-linguistic performance: Word learning accuracy (% correct), primaryOutcomes measure: Changes to cognitive-linguistic performance: Reaction time on the Serial Reaction Time task (milliseconds), secondaryOutcomes measure: Fitness: Maximum oxygen consumption (VO2 max) (ml/kg/min), secondaryOutcomes measure: Motor Performance (scaled scores), secondaryOutcomes measure: Enjoyment of Intervention, eligibilityModule sex: ALL, minimumAge: 6 Years, maximumAge: 8 Years, stdAges: CHILD, contactsLocationsModule locations facility: Marquette U, city: Milwaukee, state: Wisconsin, zip: 53201, country: United States, contacts name: Jenya Iuzzini-Seigel, PhD, role: CONTACT, phone: 585-489-4683, email: jenya.iuzzini-seigel@marquette.edu, geoPoint lat: 43.0389, lon: -87.90647, hasResults: False