Eyes On Lips? - Identifying Optimal Gaze Patterns and Support Obtained From Facial Expressions in Enhancing Speechreading Skills in Children With and Without Impaired Hearing

Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Behavioral
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

The goal of this clinical trial is to find out the role of background factors and gaze use in children's speechreading performance. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Which background factors and eye gaze patterns are associated with the best speechreading results in hearing children and those with hearing impairment/loss? * Are children's gaze patterns and facial expression discrimination associated with interpretation of emotional contents of verbal messages in speechreading? * What is the efficacy of intervention that is based on the use of a speechreading application to be developed? Participants will be * tested with linguistic and cognitive tests and tasks * tested with a speechreading test and tasks with or without simultaneous eye-tracking * about half of the participants with hearing impairment/loss will train speechreading with an application Researchers will compare the different age groups and the results of hearing children to those of children with impaired hearing to see if there are differences.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 8
Maximum Age: 11
Healthy Volunteers: t
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⁃ Normally hearing children:

• age 8-11 years

• being born full-term (on 37. gestational week or later)

• Finnish speaking (Finnish is the language the child's family uses at home, the child goes to a school where Finnish is used as the language of instruction)

• normal hearing and vision

• typically developing, mainstream education curriculum at school

• for those tested remotely: computer available at home for remote testing

⁃ Children with hearing impairment/loss:

• age 8-11 years

• diagnosed bilateral hearing impairment

• being born full-term (on 37. gestational week or later)

• Finnish speaking (Finnish is the language the child's family uses at home, the child goes to a school where Finnish is used as the language of instruction)

• normal vision

• (mainly) typically developing

• for those tested remotely: computer available at home for remote testing

Locations
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Finland
University of Oulu
RECRUITING
Oulu
Contact Information
Primary
Kerttu Huttunen, PhD
kerttu.huttunen@oulu.fi
+358504776610
Time Frame
Start Date: 2023-05-12
Estimated Completion Date: 2026-12-31
Participants
Target number of participants: 155
Treatments
No_intervention: Normally hearing children
No intervention, only initial testing (normal-hearing controls).
Experimental: Children with hearing impairment/loss with intervention
These children participate in speechreading training for two months at home.
No_intervention: Children with hearing impairment/loss with no intervention
These children will serve as controls for two months with no speechreading training.
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Collaborators: University of Helsinki, Tampere University
Leads: University of Oulu

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