Reading Outcomes in Children With Vestibular Loss

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Conditions studied: Vestibular Disorder, Hearing Loss, Sensorineural

In brief

Vestibular loss can co-occur with hearing loss causing dual sensory deficits. This project examines vestibular loss as a contributing factor to reading difficulties for children with hearing loss, where previously only the effects of hearing loss and subsequent language difficulties have been considered. These results are expected to influence the identification and habilitation of vestibular loss in children with hearing loss.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05414903

Run by

Father Flanagan's Boys' Home

People needed

90

Starts

2022-06-06

Expected to finish

2026-06-30

Last updated by the study team

2025-12-23

Who can join

Age: 7 and older, up to 18. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Children will be required to have nonverbal problem-solving/intelligence scores within 1.5 SD of the mean (mean = 100, SD = 15, 1.5 SD of mean = 77 - 123).
• Children with normal hearing must have thresholds ≤20 dB HL from 0.25 to 8 kHz.
• Children with hearing loss must have pure-tone averages > 65 dB HL.

You may not qualify if…

• Fail a vision screen at 20/30
• Have autism, blindness, or other optic disorders, cerebral palsy, significant neurologic involvement, uncorrectable vision problems, and intellectual disability.
• Children with nonverbal problem-solving/intelligence scores > 123 or < 77 will be excluded.
• Each participant's current medications will be reviewed. Children taking medications known to result in oculomotor slowing will be excluded (i.e., anti-depressants, vestibular suppressants, sedatives, etc).

Where it is running

• Boys Town National Research Hospital — Omaha, Nebraska, United States (enrolling)

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