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Auditory Training Via Teleconference

NCT04207866 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2022-05-09

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Summary

Multi-channel cochlear implants have been highly successful in restoring speech understanding to individuals with severe-to-profound hearing loss. Optimal programs facilitate access to sound but do not necessarily result in optimal performance. Practiced listening with auditory inputs is required to retrain the brain to hear using a cochlear implant. In some cases exposure to sound in everyday listening is sufficient; however, in others there is a need for the provision of auditory training (AT) by a trained professional. In these cases it is important to have regular visits with a specialist to: 1) facilitate auditory training exercises; 2) work with the family/friends to encourage optimal communication strategies in the home; 3) evaluate and assess achievement of listening goals.

This study seeks to evaluate the feasibility of providing auditory training services remotely for patient populations located outside of Toronto. This study also seeks to evaluate interindividual perspectives regarding access and benefits of these services across remote and in person sessions.

Conditions

  • Hearing Impairment, Sensorineural
  • Auditory; Nerve
  • Cochlear Implants
  • Rehabilitation

Interventions

OTHER

Teleconferencing

Use of video/audio stream to provide auditory training at a remote site.

OTHER

Auditory training services

Participants will engage in regular visits with a specialist to: 1) facilitate auditory training exercises; 2) work with the family/friends to encourage optimal communication strategies in the home; 3) evaluate and assess achievement of listening goals. Auditory training assess/reviews skills associated with but not necessarily limited to: 1) developing strategies to repair communication breakdowns; 2) listening in quiet; 3) listening in noise; 4) listening to a degraded signal.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Kassandra H Kaminskas, M.Cl.Sc. · Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre - Clinical Audiologist

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-06-30
Primary Completion
2023-01-31
Completion
2025-01-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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