Status:

COMPLETED

Benefits of Tablet-based Serious Games to Promote Speech Production in Young Children With Hearing Disabilities

Lead Sponsor:

University Hospital, Geneva

Collaborating Sponsors:

University of Geneva, Switzerland

Conditions:

Deafness

Hearing Loss

Eligibility:

All Genders

Up to 6 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Learning to speak is a major challenge for children with hearing impairments. Nowadays, special devices such as conventional hearing aids, bone-anchored hearing aids (BAHA) or cochlear implants (CI) a...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Diagnosed with mild to profound hearing loss,
  • Optimum instrumented hearing (hearing aids, BAHA or CI),
  • Language development delay confirmed by a speech therapist,
  • Enough sensorimotor, cognitive and communication skills to play with tablet-based games,
  • French mother tongue

Exclusion

  • Additional impairments which affect language development or the use of FunSpeech (e.g. motor, orofacial, sensory, cognitive),
  • Refusal of the participant's representative(s) to participate in the study,
  • Refusal of the participant's representative(s) to participate in a modality of the study,
  • If the child/participant refuses to collaborate in two measures of language level.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

March 1 2020

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

March 1 2022

Estimated Enrollment :

13 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04454255

Start Date

March 1 2020

End Date

March 1 2022

Last Update

June 22 2023

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Geneva University Hospitals

Geneva, Switzerland, 1205