Evaluating the Educational Benefits of Tablet-based Serious Games to Promote Speech Production in Instrumented Young Children With Hearing Disabilities
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 13
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Parental inventory (questionnaire) and observation grid of speech production skills completed by the speech therapist.
研究概览
简要总结
Learning to speak is a major challenge for children with hearing impairments. Nowadays, special devices such as conventional hearing aids, bone-anchored hearing aids (BAHA) or cochlear implants (CI) allow successful rehabilitation of patients with hearing disabilities. To obtain maximum benefit from these technical aids, instrumented hearing impaired children require specific and intensive speech therapy to compensate for speech development delays. In addition, it is also of primary importance that during daily life (e.g., at home, at school) children are provided with sufficient and good quality auditory stimulation.
The main goal of this project is to encourage speech production with an edutainment tool that can be used at home and that is adapted to the specific needs of young hearing impaired children. For this purpose, the investigators have recently designed an innovative educational solution: FunSpeech, a tablet-based set of video games that respond exclusively to sound and speech. The aim of this serious game is to encourage hearing impaired children to produce controlled sounds in terms of rhythm, intensity, and pitch. These are the main abilities required for controlled speech production. Finally, this serious game aims to support the parents' key role in the speech learning process by offering an effective solution that is easy to use at home with young children.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Crossover
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- — 至 6 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Diagnosed with mild to profound hearing loss,
- •Optimum instrumented hearing (hearing aids, BAHA or CI),
- •Language development delay confirmed by a speech therapist,
- •Enough sensorimotor, cognitive and communication skills to play with tablet-based games,
- •French mother tongue
排除标准
- •Additional impairments which affect language development or the use of FunSpeech (e.g. motor, orofacial, sensory, cognitive),
- •Refusal of the participant's representative(s) to participate in the study,
- •Refusal of the participant's representative(s) to participate in a modality of the study,
- •If the child/participant refuses to collaborate in two measures of language level.
结局指标
主要结局
Parental inventory (questionnaire) and observation grid of speech production skills completed by the speech therapist.
时间窗: 6 months
Quantitative and qualitative assessments of spoken language level.
次要结局
- Game usage (total play time, frequency of play sessions, list of games used, gameplay goals achieved)(6 months)
研究者
Angelica Perez Fornos
Principal Investigator
University Hospital, Geneva