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Improving Perception of Speech in Noise in Children With Communication Disorders

NCT04473729 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2021-08-30

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

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.

Conditions

  • Speech Perception

Interventions

OTHER

Audiovisual speech training in noise for children

Children will participate in listening training in the form of an iPad app

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    collaborator NIH

  • National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)

    collaborator NIH

  • Southern Connecticut State University

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Haskins Laboratories

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Smarty Ears

    lead INDUSTRY

Principal Investigators

  • Barbara Fernandes, M.S · Smarty Ears

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SEQUENTIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
8 Years
Max Age
12 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-07-03
Primary Completion
2021-05-31
Completion
2021-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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