ListenFuture-Listening for Their Future: Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Adolescents
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Conditions studied: Hearing Disorders and Deafness
In brief
ListenFuture, a nation-wide multidisciplinary project, brings new knowledge on complex associations between listening, cognition, language, literacy, and psychosocial wellbeing in deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) adolescents. Earlier findings indicate that DHH adolescents remain at a risk to achieving age-appropriate skills. The associations among these skills can also be language-dependent. The investigators use behavioral methods and questionnaires. The investigators study speech perception in noise, listening, and listening-related fatigue to reveal how DHH adolescents cope in today's noisy environment. The investigators study cognitive skills and executive functions, spoken language and literacy skills to find out the current state-of-knowledge. The investigators study psychosocial wellbeing, school burnout and factors associated with them. The investigators will utilize supervised and interpretable machine learning to analyse the performance domains that could best predict the outcomes of DHH adolescents. The investigators expect our project to have broad societal impact for DHH adolescents, healthcare, school, and other stakeholders.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT07416292
- Run by
- Heikki Löppönen
- People needed
- 256
- Starts
- 2026-03-01
- Expected to finish
- 2031-12-31
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-02-25
Who can join
Age: 11 and older, up to 16. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Group 1
- Bilateral mild to complete hearing loss
- Group 2:
- Typical hearing (PTA<20dB)
- Typical cognitive, linguistic and literacy development
You may not qualify if…
- Group 1 and Group 2:
- heart conditions
- developmental brain disorders
- chromosome anomalies
- severe inner ear anomalies
- impairments in both distance senses hearing and vision
- Group 2:
- concerns regarding attention and psychosocial wellbeing
Where it is running
- Helsinki University Hospital — Helsinki, Finland (enrolling)
- Kuopio University Hospital / University of Eastern Finland — Kuopio, Finland (enrolling)
- University of Oulu — Oulu, Finland (enrolling)
- Oulu University Hospital — Oulu, Finland (enrolling)
- Tampere University Hospital — Tampere, Finland (enrolling)
- Turku University Hospital — Turku, Finland (enrolling)
- Åbo Academy University — Turku, Finland (enrolling)
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