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ListenFuture-Listening for Their Future: Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Adolescents

NCT07416292 · Status: RECRUITING · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 256

Last updated 2026-02-25

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Summary

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.

Conditions

  • Hearing Disorders and Deafness

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Åbo Akademi University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Helsinki University Central Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • Kuopio University Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Oulu

    collaborator OTHER

  • Oulu University Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • Tampere University Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • Turku University Hospital

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • University of Melbourne

    collaborator OTHER

  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    collaborator OTHER

  • Heikki Löppönen

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age
11 Years
Max Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-03-01
Primary Completion
2029-12-31
Completion
2031-12-31

Countries

  • Finland

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