Drumming lessons for children with Down syndrome and self-control
Tests whether drumming lessons help self-control and timing in children with Down syndrome.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Vanderbilt University
- Where
- Nashville, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Drumming Lessons' Influence on Children With Down Syndrome
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 30 people, planned
- Started
- 15 Feb 2026
- Expected to end
- Dec 2027
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groups
- Treatments tested
- 2 months of drumming lessons given by a professional drummer with extensive experience working with children with Down syndrome
- Lessons after measurement
- Record updated
- 19 May 2026
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for children with Down syndrome aged 7 to 15. It tests whether 2 months of drumming lessons improve self-control and timing skills.
- Age
- 7 Years to 15 Years
- Sex
- All sexes can join.
- Earlier treatment
- Children who have already taken drumming lessons cannot join.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Already taken drumming lessons
- Hearing loss that is not corrected
- Vision loss that is not corrected
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Down syndrome
Who cannot take part
- Already taken drumming lessons
- Uncorrected hearing loss
- Uncorrected vision loss
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 7 and 15 years old?
Where in United States
- Vanderbilt UniversityNashville, United StatesContact: Caroline Danforth, MSTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if drumming lessons can increase self-control in children with Down syndrome. The main question it aims to answer is whether 2 months of drumming lessons can improve the behavioral control and timing skills in children with Down syndrome. Participants are between 7 and 15 years of age and receive two months of drumming lessons given by a professional drummer with extensive experience working with children with Down syndrome. Children in the experimental group visit our lab once before lessons start and once after lessons are completed. Children in the control group visit our lab twice before they start their lessons. Lab visits include brain recordings taken using a net-style cap, computer tasks, and drumming to music.
The 2 groups in the trial
- Experimental groupTreatment being tested
Experimental group will receive the drumming lesson intervention between baseline and testing approximately 2 to 3 months later, so the effects of the intervention can be assessed in the lab measures.
Treatment: 2 months of drumming lessons given by a professional drummer with extensive experience working with children with Down syndrome
- Control groupOther group
Children in the Control condition will receive drumming lessons only after they have completed lab baseline and testing measures, about 2 to 3 months later.
Treatment: Lessons after measurement
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Effects of Drumming Lessons on Brain and Behavior in Children With Down Syndrome
- Plain-language title
- Drumming lessons for children with Down syndrome and self-controlGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 14 November 2026.
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT07156318, who can take part
- Record updated
- 19 May 2026