Active clinical trials for "Developmental Disabilities"

The high incidence of neurodevelopmental disorders, including specific language and learning disorders, and their profund impact on the schooling of the children concerned remains a major public health concern. Early identification and intervention are a valuable tool for improving these problems. The developmental trajectory of children could be improved by knowledge enhancement, identification and strategies to support the teachers through the involvement of health professionals in the classroom

The overarching purpose of this pilot study is to collect preliminary data regarding the variability of weight gain associated with lurasidone (Latuda©) treatment of antipsychotic naive children and adolescents in order to inform decisions about including a lurasidone arm in a future large scale trial of different approaches to minimize antipsychotic associated weight gain in the pediatric population. In adults, lurasidone appears to cause minimal weight gain. The participants will be 6-19 years old with psychotic spectrum, mood spectrum, or autism spectrum disorders. They will have 4 weeks or less of lifetime antipsychotic exposure.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of two community based interventions for parents of adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD) who are requesting services. The two interventions will include: Support and Information Intervention - provides parents with support and information about services for their sons and daughters Mindfulness Intervention - empowers parents through teaching them mindfulness skills We hypothesize that: Parents in both types of interventions will report benefits (reductions in psychological distress) maintained at follow-up. Parents in mindfulness intervention group will report improvements in mindful parenting, self compassion, positive gain, empowerment, and reduced burden. Parents in support and information intervention group will report improvements in empowerment, positive gain, and reduced burden. Parents in mindfulness intervention group will show greater improvements by 3 months follow-up than parents in the support and information group.

Anxiety disorders affect 40 to 50% of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), contributing to substantial distress and impairment. The goal of this study is to examine the effectiveness of a personalized type of psychotherapy against standard-care psychotherapy for addressing anxiety in youth with ASD.

The purpose of this randomized withdrawal study is to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of memantine compared with placebo in pediatric patients with autism, Asperger's Disorder, or Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS).

The goal is to remediate speech and language disorders early in the lives of South African children with significant developmental disorders (DD) by enhancing the health care service delivery system to better serve families across diverse backgrounds. This study assesses a new hybrid intervention to promote better communication skills for both the child and caregiver. The hybrid intervention includes a mobile health technology (MHT) web-based tablet protocol that assists parents/caregivers in communicating with their children on a daily basis at home over a 12-week period in addition to the current standard of care intervention, a 30-minute speech-language therapy session at the secondary/tertiary hospitals once a month. The hybrid intervention adds to the child's monthly therapy session by providing parents/caregivers with instruction about communication with their children via a sequenced web-based tablet protocol across a 12 week time period and face-to-face monthly follow-up at the hospital where the child receives therapy. Fifty parent/caregiver-child pairs (25 per group) will be assigned to either the hybrid intervention or the standard of care intervention. Child receptive and expressive language skills, child and parent/caregiver communication interactions and parent/caregiver and speech therapist satisfaction with child communication will be measured prior to the intervention and then again at the end of the 12-week period. The effects of the hybrid intervention and standard of care intervention on child communication skills, caregiver perception and satisfaction and speech therapist perception and satisfaction will be measured. The expectation is that the new MHT enhanced hybrid intervention program that is applicable and deliverable in culturally and linguistically diverse settings will enhance the child's receptive and expressive communication skills and result in greater parent/caregiver and speech therapist satisfaction related to the child. The impact includes enhanced health care service delivery to South African children with DD and their families so as to better serve the children with DD by remediating speech and language disorders on a daily basis.

A Phase II cluster randomized controlled trial of the (OHPROM) strategy/intervention will be conducted in partnership with several organizations that provide residential services for persons with intellectual developmental disabilities (IDD) in north central Kentucky and southern Indiana. The investigators have identified a purposive sample of group homes, caregivers, and persons with IDD and have the support of these organizations.

Over 6% of children in Pakistan suffer from a developmental disorder (intellectual disability or Autistic spectrum disorder) and most receive no intervention.In an earlier proof of concept study, the investigators integrated social, technological and business innovations to develop and successfully pilot a sustainable service for such children in one rural population of 30,000. Affected families were identified through a mobile phone-based interactive voice response system, and organised into family networks. 'Champion' family volunteers were trained in evidence-based interventions. A Tablet-based android application was developed for training, monitoring and supervision of the champions, based on the World Health Organization's guidelines. The champions delivered the intervention to other families in the network. The project was sustainable and demonstrated significant improvements in the lives of children and their families in the first 6 months of its operation. The investigators are scaling-up this intervention to a population of 1 million. The investigators aim to evaluate the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the scaled-up programme using cluster randomized control trial nested within the scale-up study.

Visual perceptual defects in children can negatively affect their activities of daily living.The aims of this study were to develop and evaluate an interactive digital game system for correcting visual perceptual defects and to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed system.

Due to the considerable prevalence of anxiety in youth with autism spectrum disorders, this study seeks to establish the efficacy of a modified cognitive behavioral therapy protocol in 50 adolescents versus other available treatment options.