Audiobooks for Hearing Loss App as Auditory Training

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Hearing Loss, Hearing Impaired Children, Hearing Impairment

In brief

The goal of the proposed project is to create an Audiobooks for Hearing Loss (HL) App - an audiobook App that has a wide array of user-selectable features designed to provide auditory training. The effects of the Audiobooks for Hearing Loss App as Auditory Training for those With CI and HA Users was measured with a 6-week trial of using the app and measuring changes in listener abilities and adherence to the program.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04231396

Run by

BioSpeech

People needed

27

Starts

2021-02-25

Expected to finish

2021-09-14

Last updated by the study team

2022-01-14

Who can join

Age: 9 and older, up to 90. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Because of the COVID-19 Pandemic and low enrollment numbers for certain HL subgroups in the study, the effectiveness of the Audiobooks for Hearing Loss App was measured for the overall group.
• Participants had to fall into one of the following five HL subgroups: (1) Adults with HA, moderate HL (41-55 dB); (2) Adults with HA, moderately-severe to severe HL (56 to 90 dB); (3) Adults with non-recent CI, post-lingually deaf; (4) Children, ages 9+, non-recent CI, pre-lingually deaf; and (5) Adults and Children, ages 9+, recent CI, post-lingually deaf. These five subgroups span broad ranges in terms of: (1) age (adults vs. children); (2) severity of hearing loss; (3) device used (HAs vs. Cis); (4) familiarity with device (recent vs. longer-term); and (5) onset of HL (pre-lingual vs. post-lingual. The team expects the highest efficacy for children and adults with recent CI who are post-lingually deaf; the lowest efficacy for adults with HA with either moderate of severe HL; and intermediate efficacy for children with non-recent CI who are pre-lingually deaf.
• speaking English as first language,
• and being able to read at least a first-grade level.

You may not qualify if…

• no suspicions of cognitive deficits or vision impairments that would interfere with system usage or invalidate usability assessment,
• no signs of external ear disease,
• and all participants will be tested with the Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test, 4th Edition (EOWPVT-4; Brownell 2000), normed for ages of 2 and older, and are required to score in the 15th percentile or better.

Where it is running

• OHSU — Portland, Oregon, United States

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