Improving Perception of Speech in Noise in Children With Communication Disorders

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Conditions studied: Speech Perception

In brief

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 allow for fragments of the target to be heard). The study will attempt to validate the technology and gather initial design feedback from clinicians and caregivers and from children with ASD and HL.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04473729

Run by

Smarty Ears

People needed

30

Starts

2020-07-03

Expected to finish

2021-05-31

Last updated by the study team

2021-08-30

Who can join

Age: 8 and older, up to 12. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 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.

You may not qualify if…

• 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).

Where it is running

• Southern Connecticut State University — New Haven, Connecticut, United States
• Hampton University — Hampton, Virginia, United States

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