Let's Know!2: Language-focused Intervention for Children at Risk of Comprehension Difficulties

NCT ID: NCT05133479

Last Updated: 2025-12-24

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 241 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-01-01
• Study Completion Date: 2026-12-31

Brief Summary

In the proposed project, the investigators will conduct a multisite randomized controlled trial (RCT) to determine the efficacy of Let's Know!2, a small-group, language focused comprehension intervention, on children's lower- and higher-level language skills and comprehension skills in the short- and long-term (Specific Aims 1 and 2). The investigators will also explore whether intervention effects are moderated by dosage, initial language skill, developmental language disorder (DLD) status, word reading skill, nonverbal IQ, and family socioeconomic status (Specific Aim 3).

Children who have low language skills and are thus at risk for reading comprehension difficulties will participate in the study. Children will be randomly assigned to receive Let's Know! in small groups at their respective schools or to a business-as-usual control condition. The investigators will measure children's language and comprehension skills at the beginning and end of Grade 1 as well as in Grade 2 and Grade 3. The investigators hypothesize that children who experience Let's Know! will end Grade 1 with higher language skills than children in the control condition and that this will translate into better listening and reading comprehension skills as these children matriculate through elementary school.

Detailed Description

Parents of children enrolled in Grade 1 at partnering schools will receive consent materials and those who provide consent will complete a brief background/demographic survey about their child. For children whose parents provide informed consent, research staff will (a) ask their educator to confirm basic English proficiency and lack of profound disabilities or behavior issues that severely impair classroom functioning, (b) seek the child's assent to project activities, and (c) administer a language screener in a quiet location at their respective school, either in a small group of other consented children or one-on-one. In order to qualify as eligible for the intervention phase of the study, consented children must: (1) be enrolled in Grade 1 (per educator or parent report) (2) score at or below the empirically derived cut-score on the OWL screener (obtained via direct testing), (3) exhibit at least basic skills in speaking and understanding English (per educator report), (4) not exhibit behavioral difficulties sufficiently severe to prevent participation in the intervention (per educator report), (5) not have a severe disability that would prevent participation in the intervention (per educator report), (6) assent to study activities. Children who meet all eligibility criteria, including scoring below our cutoff on the language screener, will be categorized as potentially eligible for enrollment in the intervention phase of the study. In order to enroll children within a particular school, the investigators must identify a minimum of 6 eligible participants in that school. The investigators will cap the child participants per school at a maximum of 20 in cohort 1 and 10 in cohorts 2 & 3 to allow for later analysis of nested data (children nested within schools; the investigators need 40 schools for appropriate statistical power). Children who are identified as potentially eligible but who attend schools with fewer than 6 total eligible participants, or who consent to the study but have not yet been screened by the time the investigators identify 20 eligible participants in cohort 1 and 10 in cohorts 2 & 3 will be excluded from further participation. In schools in which the investigators have more than the allotted potentially eligible children, the investigators will randomly select the cohort-specific number to enroll in the intervention phase of the study. Children enrolled in the intervention phase of the study will be randomly assigned to receive the Let's Know! intervention or to a business-as-usual control condition. Random assignment will be conducted by Dr. Flemming at KUMC, who will be uninvolved in recruitment, screening, and pretest activities. Prior to intervention start, all enrolled children will complete pretest assessments to measure the lower-level and higher-level language skills targeted by the Let's Know! intervention, comprehension skills, and other abilities (i.e., covariates and moderators for addressing Aim 3). All direct child assessments are listed in Table 1 above. All child direct assessments (screening, pretest, curriculum-aligned measures, posttest, follow-up) will be administered by trained research staff in quiet locations at children's respective schools; alternative arrangements to conduct assessments in the PIs' research laboratories or community locations (e.g., public library) will be made as necessary (e.g., if a child moves into a new, non-partnering school). All but the language screener and Gates-MacGinitie Tests of Reading will be administered individually, with the two exceptions administered to small groups or 1:1, dependent on scheduling. Screening and assessment sessions may be audio or video recorded to allow for accurate scoring and analysis. Following pretest assessments and assignment to conditions, research staff will provide the Let's Know! intervention to small groups of 3 to 5 children allocated to the intervention condition at their respective schools. The Let's Know! intervention provides instruction in the domains of text structure, integration, word knowledge, and grammar; as such, it targets key lower-level (vocabulary) and higher-level (e.g., story grammar, comprehension monitoring, inferencing) language skills to support listening and reading comprehension. The intervention features manualized, soft-scripted lessons that will be provided in small groups of 3-5 children 4 times a week for 25-30 minutes. The lessons are organized into four instructional units that are delivered over 22 weeks. All four instructional units emphasize repeated readings and explorations of commercial texts, with two units comprising narrative books and two comprising expository books. All intervention lessons will be videotaped for purposes of monitoring implementation and coding fidelity. If an individual child misses a session, this will be documented and the session will not be made up. If an entire group misses a session (e.g., due to a field trip/school assembly), the interventionist will wait and deliver that lesson during the next scheduled session (e.g., one group may miss Animals 12 due to a Tuesday assembly; the interventionist teaches Animals 12 at the regularly scheduled Wednesday session and proceeds from there). Children in the control condition will participate in study assessments as noted above but will not experience the Let's Know! intervention. They will receive business-as-usual classroom instruction and supports within their schools. That is, the child's family and school will provide instruction and support for children in the control condition as they typically would for any child not enrolled in the study. The investigators will document the interventions received by children in both the intervention and control conditions.

Conditions

Language Disorders in Children

Keywords

language skills; reading comprehension; intervention; specific language impairment; dyslexia

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Intervention

Participants receive the Let's Know! intervention in small groups as provided by research staff

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Let's Know! small-group or TierL 2 Intervention

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Let's Know!2 is an 22-week intervention spanning 1 school year. Each week features 4, 20-30 minute lessons targeting lower-level and higher-level language skills. Within units, instructors and children progress through specific types of lessons to meet language-focused learning objectives. LK!2 was adapted from the original Let's Know! curriculum (LARRC, 2016). The adaption from LK! to LK! made lessons appropriate for small groups of Grade 1 students with low language skills. Adaptations focused on (1) simplification of language input, (2) increased scaffolding, (3) attention to distributed practice, (4) materials to support diversity and inclusion, and (5) enhanced interventionist training. LK!2 comprised 76 20-30 min lessons across four units (fiction, animals, earth materials, folktales) as implemented by trained research staff (i.e., interventionists).

Business-As-Usual

Participants continue to receive only their typical classroom instruction (i.e., no small groups)

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Let's Know! small-group or TierL 2 Intervention

Let's Know!2 is an 22-week intervention spanning 1 school year. Each week features 4, 20-30 minute lessons targeting lower-level and higher-level language skills. Within units, instructors and children progress through specific types of lessons to meet language-focused learning objectives. LK!2 was adapted from the original Let's Know! curriculum (LARRC, 2016). The adaption from LK! to LK! made lessons appropriate for small groups of Grade 1 students with low language skills. Adaptations focused on (1) simplification of language input, (2) increased scaffolding, (3) attention to distributed practice, (4) materials to support diversity and inclusion, and (5) enhanced interventionist training. LK!2 comprised 76 20-30 min lessons across four units (fiction, animals, earth materials, folktales) as implemented by trained research staff (i.e., interventionists).

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

Let's Know! small-group or Tier 2 Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Parental consent to participate in the research;
• Enrollment in Grade 1;
• Scores below the 30th percentile on the OWL Language Screener
• Basic English proficiency as reported by parents/teachers

Exclusion Criteria

• Unable to speak or understand English at a basic level, as reported by parents/teachers;
• Profound disability that severely impairs classroom participation, as reported by teachers;
• Serious behavior issue that severely impairs classroom participation, as reported by teachers.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 5 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 12 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)

NIH

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Ohio State University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of Kansas

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

MGH Institute of Health Professions

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Tiffany P. Hogan, PhD, CCC-SLP, FASHA

Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Tiffany P Hogan, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

MGH Institute of Health Professions

Locations

MGH Institute of Health Professions

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

The Ohio State University

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Countries

United States

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