Exploring cognitive and linguistic predictors of speech recognition improvement in adults after cochlear implant activatio
Completed
- Conditions
- Cochlear ImplantInner-ear Prosthesis10019243
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON42097
- Lead Sponsor
- Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 30
Inclusion Criteria
• 18 years or older
• Post-lingual deafness (deafness that developed after acquisition of speech and language; onset of deafness after the age of six)
• Patient indicated for a cochlear implant
• Normal or corrected to normal vision
• Written informed consent
Exclusion Criteria
• Mental disabilities
• Visual disabilities
• Hearing loss as a result of meningitis or as part of a syndrome
• Partial insertion of the cochlear implant
• Patient received special education
• Doubts, for any reason, about whether the patient may not be able to show up on all follow ups
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational non invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>The main study parameters are participants' performance changes on four<br /><br>measures of speech perception between baseline (one week after cochlear implant<br /><br>activation) and endpoint (eleven weeks after cochlear implant activation)<br /><br>performance:<br /><br>• Number of correctly repeated speech sound of consonant-vowel-consonant words<br /><br>• Number of correctly repeated keywords in sentences<br /><br>• Accuracy of keyword identification in conversational speech<br /><br>• Response time of word identification (in ms) in conversational speech </p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method