Title: "Development and Implementation of Innovative Auditory Training Methods and Verification of These Training Methods"
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Mayo Clinic
- Enrollment
- 17
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Word recognition
Study Overview
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to determine if aural rehabilitation adds measurable benefit and participant satisfaction to a cochlear implant recipient's overall treatment. Also, the study is designed to compare the efficacy of a commercially available aural rehabilitation program (LACE) and an electronic program which takes advantage of a traditional form of auditory training (NOOK) for cochlear implant users.
Detailed Description
The primary objective of this study is to determine if aural rehabilitation adds measurable benefit and participant satisfaction to a cochlear implant recipient's overall treatment.
The secondary objective of this study is to compare the efficacy of a commercially available aural rehabilitation program (LACE) and an electronic program which takes advantage of a traditional form of auditory training (NOOK) for cochlear implant users.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to 99 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Criteria for Inclusion:
- •Willingness to participate
- •Ability to provide informed written consent
- •Willingness to follow study protocol
- •Eighteen years or older at the time of signing the consent form
- •Cochlear implant experience for 12 months or greater
- •Spoken English as the first language
- •Access to a home computer which meets the minimal requirements to run appropriate program or the ability to use an electronic reader depending on which group the participant is assigned to.
- •Reports being comfortable using a computer if in the LACE group
- •Criteria for
Exclusion Criteria
- •Unable or unwillingness to sign informed written consent
- •Unable or unwillingness to follow study protocol
- •Non-English speaking or English as a second language
- •No access to a computer if assigned to the LACE study group
- •Reports not being comfortable using a computer if assigned to the LACE study group.
Arms & Interventions
Control
LACE ( Listening And Communication Enhancement )
use the commercially available auditory training program which is administered by computer as daily lessons.
Intervention: LACE (Behavioral)
NOOK (Electronic reader)
will use an electronic reader (NOOK device) to do speech tracking
Intervention: NOOK (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Word recognition
Time Frame: baseline to 6 months
Word recognition will be measured using the Consonant Nucleus Consonant (CNC) Test, a 50 word open set test.
Signal-to-noise ratio
Time Frame: baseline to 6 months
The signal to noise ratio will be measured using the Bamford-Kowal-Bench (BKB) test.
Secondary Outcomes
- Percent of speech comprehension(baseline to 6 months)
Investigators
Annamary (Ann) Peterson
AUDIOLOGIST
Mayo Clinic