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NCT07103044: EA-SHELLS
Early Achievements - Shaping Early Language and Literacy Skills
NA trial testing Early Achievements - Shaping Early Language and Literacy Skills in Developmental Language Disorder in 360 participants. Currently enrolling.
30 September 2026
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Recruiting now |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | single |
| Primary purpose | treatment |
| Enrollment | 360 |
| Start date | 26 August 2021 |
| Primary completion | 30 September 2026 |
| Estimated completion | 31 October 2026 |
| Sites | 1 location across United States |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Early Achievements - Shaping Early Language and Literacy Skills
Conditions studied
- Developmental Language Disorder — all drugs for Developmental Language Disorder →
Sponsor
Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, Inc.
Who can join
Adults 45 Months to 65 Months, any sex, with Developmental Language Disorder. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
Language skills are important for long-term reading comprehension success. Yet there are limited instructional approaches available for prekindergarten (pre-K) teachers to use in their inclusive classrooms to boost literacy-related language skills in children with and without language delays or disorders. In the first part of this study, the investigators will develop a teacher training program focused on building pre-K children's language-based literacy skills. Teachers will be trained and will use the strategies that they learn during literacy-related activities in their inclusive pre-K classrooms. Their students' language-related literacy skills will be measured before and after their training. Based on teacher feedback and child assessment information, the training program will be revised. In the final part of the study, a preliminary randomized control trial (RCT) will be done using the revised training approach. The results of the RCT will help the investigators know if the teacher training program helps to improve the effectiveness of teachers' instruction and their students' development of language-related literacy skills. The primary goal of this research study is to determine whether study-trained pre-K teachers in inclusive early childhood education classrooms use more effective teaching strategies than teachers who do not receive the training. A secondary goal of this research study is to determine if this teacher training program strengthens language-related literacy skills for students with and without language disorders or delays. The research team hypothesizes that teachers who participate in the training program will use effective teaching strategies more often than teachers who do not receive the training. Additionally, the investigators predict that teachers who receive the training will feel more confident teaching early language-based literacy skills to their students (with and without language delays/disorders) than teachers who do not receive the training. Researchers also predict that students taught by teachers who receive the training will perform better on language tests when compared to their peers in classrooms where the teacher training program was not used.
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- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT07103044 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
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- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, Inc.
- Last refreshed: 5 August 2025
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