Clinical trial NCT03315416: Infant Feeding, Non-nutritive Sucking and Speech Development
Official title: The Effect of Different Feeding Methods and Non-nutritive Sucking Behaviours on Child Speech Development
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Speech Disorders in Children
Keywords: Speech Disorder
Breast Feeding
Infant Feeding
Bottle Feeding
Speech Development
Speech Sound Development
Speech Sound Disorder
Non-nutritive Sucking
Lead sponsor: Solent NHS Trust
Sponsor class: OTHER_GOV
First posted: 2017-10-20
Enrollment: 135
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 24
Maximum age (years): 66
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: OTHER
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Children aged 2;0-5;6 on current speech and language therapy clinical caseloads in Hampshire (Solent NHS Trust) who have a diagnosis of speech sound disorder.

Brief summary: This study will look at whether there is a relationship between how babies are fed, whether they suck a dummy/hand and how they develop speech.

Detailed description: Background:

In the UK every year around 48,000 children aged 2-5 years are referred to NHS Speech \& Language Therapy (SLT) services with difficulties using the right sounds in their talking. This is known as speech sound disorders (SSD). This is the largest population seen by Speech and Language Therapists and costs the NHS about £24 million per year.

Children with SSD are more at risk of mental health problems and difficulties making relationships with those around them. They are also more likely to struggle with learning at school and be involved with the criminal justice system at some point in their early lives. When a baby is born parents make different choices about feeding their baby. Some breastfeed, some bottle-feed and some use a mixture of both. Some babies also like to have a dummy, while others suck their hand and some don't suck anything. Some studies have found that breastfeeding is linked to better language and learning in later childhood, while others have found that dummy sucking has the opposite effect.

However, the effect that different types of feeding have on speech development has not been looked at in as much detail.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Children aged 2;0-5;6 on current speech and language therapy clinical caseloads in Hampshire (Solent NHS Trust) who have a diagnosis of speech sound disorder.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Genetic Disorder (including Downs Syndrome and other identified syndromes) Other congenital anomaly (e.g Cerebral Palsy, Global Developmental Delay) Diagnosed Learning Disability Permanent Hearing Loss (Sensorineural) Cleft lip and/or palate and/or submucous cleft palate Premature birth (before 37 completed weeks gestation) English as second or additional language

Primary outcomes:
measure: Percentage of Consonants Correct (PCC) on a single word naming test.
timeFrame: Outcome will be determined from data gained from the participants through assessment on a single clinic visit following recruitment.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Presence of developmental and non-developmental error patterns in speech.
timeFrame: Outcome will be determined from data gained from the participants through assessment on a single clinic visit following recruitment.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Southampton
country: United Kingdom
facility: Solent NHS Trust
Study officials:
affiliation: Solent NHS Trust
name: Samantha L Burr
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: University of the West of England
name: Toity Deave, Dr
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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