Role of Early Motor Experience in Infants With Down Syndrome
Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Behavioral
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY
Infants with Down syndrome show significant delays and weaknesses in motor, cognitive, and language development compared to typically developing infants. This project aims to examine the developmental cascade effects of specific gross and fine motor experience on motor, cognitive and language development in infants with Down syndrome. We propose that both gross and fine motor experience will facilitate cognitive and language development in infants with Down syndrome, and particularly, fine motor experience will help advance gesture and early words production.
Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 7 months
Maximum Age: 2
Healthy Volunteers: f
View:
• An appropriate age range of 7-24 months
• A diagnosis of Down syndrome.
Locations
United States
Georgia
Biomechanics lab
RECRUITING
Atlanta
Contact Information
Primary
Jerry Wu, Ph.D.
jwu11@gsu.edu
4044138476
Time Frame
Start Date: 2022-01-01
Estimated Completion Date: 2025-08-31
Participants
Target number of participants: 45
Treatments
Experimental: Gross motor intervention
Participants will receive a home-based, parent-administered body-weight supported treadmill intervention from about 10 months of age until walking onset.
Experimental: Gross and fine motor intervention
Besides the body-weight supported treadmill intervention as illustrated above, participants will receive additional fine motor intervention using sticky mittens from about 10 months of age for five months.
No_intervention: Control
Participants will not receive specific intervention.
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: Georgia State University
Collaborators: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)