Camp SMART Speech to Print Summer Literacy Camp

This project aims to explore the feasibility and efficacy of a 6-week, intensive summer literacy intervention provided to children in 1st-3rd grades.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Reading Disorder, Developmental
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: CAMP SMART Literacy Summer Camp

Detailed Description

1. Purpose/objective:

   To determine the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of a 6-week literacy summer camp for improving language and literacy outcomes of children with identified language or literacy difficulties.

2. Methods:

   This intervention will be provided by students in the speech and hearing clinic on SDSU's campus. The summer clinical sessions last for 8 weeks. Week 1 will be used for the pre-testing of each participant's baseline language (morphological awareness, phonological awareness, morphosyntax, vocabulary, and narrative language skills) and reading (letter knowledge, nonword reading, reading fluency and reading comprehension). In weeks 2-7, the intervention will take place. This will consist of 3, 3-hour sessions per week. Finally, in week 8, the investigators will conduct post-testing of children's language and reading skills.

3. Subjects:

   The investigators will recruit a maximum of 12 students who are in the summer after Kindergarten, first, or second grade. The investigators will be recruiting students from the local community who either a) have IEPs with eligibility of SLI or SLD-reading or b) have documented parent or teacher concern for reading and/or language skills as determined by parent questionnaire.

4. Planned analyses:

Planned analyses will include analysis of improvement in each of the language and reading skills from pre-test to post-test. The investigators will also include probes of performance of reading skills to allow for single subject analysis. The investigators will develop fidelity rubrics to explore the fidelity of intervention implementation and will analyze how fidelity relates to individual-child-level improvement.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 12
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • California
    • San Diego, California, United States, 92182
      • SDSU Speech, Language, and Hearing Clnic

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Students who are in the summer after Kindergarten, first, or second grade.
• Students from the local community who either a) have IEPs with eligibility of SLI or SLD-reading or b) have documented parent or teacher concern for reading and/or language skills as determined by parent questionnaire.
• Children who fit the above criteria will additionally be determined eligible for the intervention based on language or reading composite skills one or more standard deviations below the mean on the Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills (TILLS).
• Children who are rising 4th, 5th, or 6th graders and who have an IEP with eligibility of SLI or SLD-Reading and who demonstrate composite scores one or more standard deviations below the mean on the TILLS may be considered if space remains after recruitment of 1st-3rd graders.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Students who do not either a) have an IEP or b) have documented parent or teacher concern based on parent questionnaire.
• Students who score within the typical range on the TILLS.
• Students who are deaf or blind.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Crossover Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Code First; Children in this condition will receive 7 sessions of code-focused reading intervention followed by 7 sessions of morphology-focused reading intervention.	Behavioral: CAMP SMART Literacy Summer Camp; Multimodal approach to reading intervention
Experimental: Morphology First; Children in this condition will receive 7 sessions of morphology-focused reading intervention followed by 7 sessions of code-focused reading intervention.	Behavioral: CAMP SMART Literacy Summer Camp; Multimodal approach to reading intervention

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Spelling Probes	Experimenter-created lists of CVC words that children will be asked to spell	Children will spell 10 CVC words at the conclusion of each of their 14 intervention sessions. Their performance will be charted and tracked.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills standard score	Standardized measure of language and reading skills that assesses real and non-word reading and spelling as well as oral language skills in English.	Administered prior to the initiation of the intervention and upon conclusion of the intervention.

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: San Diego State University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): June 11, 2024
• Primary Completion (Actual): August 1, 2024
• Study Completion (Actual): August 8, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 9, 2024
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 29, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): June 4, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 17, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 15, 2024
• Last Verified: October 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Literacy Intervention
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Nervous System Diseases; Neurologic Manifestations; Neurobehavioral Manifestations; Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Language Disorders; Communication Disorders; Learning Disabilities; Specific Learning Disorder; Dyslexia
• Other Study ID Numbers: HS-2024-0077

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No