Status:
COMPLETED
Adaptation of a Rehabilitation Program for Prosody and Its Application on Egyptian Hearing Impaired Children
Lead Sponsor:
Sara Magdy Ibrahim
Collaborating Sponsors:
Alexandria University
Conditions:
Hearing Impaired Children
Eligibility:
All Genders
3-18 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Prosody is the melody and rhythm of speech, it is used to refer to the supra segmental aspects of speech including pitch, loudness and duration. Variations in these features achieve different prosodic...
Detailed Description
Prosody has an important role in several areas of communicative functions including : grammatical, pragmatic, affective and/or indexical functions. Prosodic abnormalities extend across a wide range of...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Hearing impaired children of both sexes, in the preschool age (from 3 to 6 years), and school age (6 to 18 years).
- Children using auditory verbal communication.
- Children with moderately severe or severe up to profound sensorineural hearing loss in unaided conditions, fitted with hearing aids or cochlear implant devices with good benefit (aided hearing threshold less than 40 dB across all frequencies).
Exclusion
- Children with intellectual disability.
- Children with brain damage.
- Children with additional sensory deprivation (impaired vision).
- Psychiatric problems (example; ASD).
- Motor speech disorders (example: apraxia, dysarthria).
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
February 19 2019
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
February 16 2020
Estimated Enrollment :
55 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT04691830
Start Date
February 19 2019
End Date
February 16 2020
Last Update
December 31 2020
Active Locations (1)
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Alexandria University, Faculty of Medicine
Alexandria, Egypt, 21131