Evaluation study of the therapy program TraFiK – training of final consonants in children with sensorineural hearing impairment
Phase 3
Recruiting
- Conditions
- H90.3Sensorineural hearing loss, bilateral
- Registration Number
- DRKS00027801
- Lead Sponsor
- niversität zu Köln
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 60
Inclusion Criteria
diagnosed bilateral, sensorineural hearing impairment,
- supplied with CIs and/or hearing aids,
- communicating in spoken German/ child grows up in a German-speaking environment,
- regular attendance of speech therapy,
- normal non-verbal IQ, measured by the SON-R at the first time point of testing (Tellegen & Laros, 2007),
- no other developmental disorders (mental, psycho-social)
Exclusion Criteria
- additional developmental disorders (see above),
- nonverbal-mental IQ below 80,
- less than 24 months of contact with German
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The second testing occurs when 12 therapy sessions of 45 minutes each have taken place. The same tests as at test time 1 are performed to determine if improvement has occurred. Accordingly, the following tests will be performed:<br>- discrimination of word-final consonants (audiometric test with 26 items, Hennies et al., 2012);<br>- production of word-final consonants (naming test with 20 picture items, Penke, Rothweiler, Stollenwerk & Westerkamp, 2020);<br>- production of subject-verb agreement morphology (production experiment with 30 short film sequences, Penke et al., 2016).<br>It is to be tested, whether an improvement with respect to discrimination of final consonants, with respect to production of final consonants, and with respect to production of subject-verb agreement morphology can be observed. <br><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method o secondary outcome defined.