Status:
COMPLETED
Improving Perception of Speech in Noise in Children With Communication Disorders
Lead Sponsor:
Smarty Ears
Collaborating Sponsors:
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Conditions:
Speech Perception
Eligibility:
All Genders
8-12 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Smarty Ears has developed a prototype of an innovative therapeutic training system to improve speech perception in noise by training children on interrupted noise (which has silent intervals that allo...
Detailed Description
Recent evidence indicates that listening in interrupted noise can provide perceptual benefits, such as remapping the auditory environment and learning to use acoustic cues. The developed technology, u...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- For all children: normal or corrected to normal vision.
- For children with typical development normal or corrected to normal vision + normal hearing.
- For children with HL Children must have at least one year experience with amplification (i.e Hearing aids) and no threshold\> 70 dB.
Exclusion
- To participate, all children must be able to comply with directions and engage in tasks that require some expressive language response on the language and cognitive measures (i.e. children who are considered to be in the "word combinations" or "sentences expressive language" phase; Tager-Flusberg et al., 2009).
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
July 3 2020
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
May 31 2021
Estimated Enrollment :
30 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT04473729
Start Date
July 3 2020
End Date
May 31 2021
Last Update
August 30 2021
Active Locations (2)
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1
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06515
2
Hampton University
Hampton, Virginia, United States, 23669