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Speech Perception Training: Advanced Scoring and Feedback Methods

Not Applicable
Active, not recruiting
Conditions
Hearing Loss
Registration Number
NCT05012774
Lead Sponsor
SeeHear LLC
Brief Summary

The purpose of the study is to assess training of visual speech (lipreading) and audiovisual (lipreading plus auditory) speech as a rehabilitation strategy for hearing loss in adults.

Detailed Description

It is hypothesized that training that improves lipreading in older adults can carry over to untrained lipreading materials and to audiovisual speech recognition in noise. Participants receive pre- and post-training tests of speech recognition with visual-only, auditory-only, and audiovisual spoken sentences and isolated words. During pre- and post-training tests, they carry out forced choice identification of lipread consonants. Participants who are assigned to a training arm train on lipreading isolated sentences (Aim 1) or on learning via lipreading sets of isolated nonsense words (Aim 2). Depending on the outcomes of Aims 1 and 2, in Aim 3, new participants receive audiovisual training with conditions from Aims 1 and 2.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
138
Inclusion Criteria
  • Must have Mild to severe hearing loss
  • Native speaker of American English
  • Access to computer and the ability to use it for the testing, training, and teleconferencing
  • computer display >= 10 inches diagonal
Exclusion Criteria
  • Internet too slow for streaming
  • History of brain trauma or learning disability
  • Poor (corrected) vision

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Change in words-correct scores across pre- and post-training sentence lipreading tests.up to 8 weeks

Change in words-correct scores across pre- and post-training visual-only sentence tests with open-set responses.

Change in phonemes-correct scores across pre- and post-training sentence lipreading tests.up to 8 weeks

Change in phonemes-correct scores across pre- and post-training visual-only sentence tests with open-set responses.

Change in consonant-identification scores across pre- and post-training word lipreading tests.up to 8 weeks

Change in consonants-correct scores across pre- and post-training for visual-only tests using isolated nonsense words and closed-set responses.

Change in phonemes-correct scores across pre- and post-training word lipreading tests.up to 8 weeks

Change in phonemes-correct scores across pre- and post-training visual-only isolated real word tests with open-set response.

Change in word-correct scores across pre- and post-training word lipreading tests.up to 8 weeks

Change in words-correct scores across pre- and post-training visual-only isolated real word tests with open-set response.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Change in word-correct scores across pre- and post-training for audiovisual-in-noise word tests.up to 8 weeks

Change in word-correct scores across pre- and post-training audiovisual-in-noise isolated real word tests with open-set response.

Change in words-correct scores across pre- and post-training audiovisual sentence tests.up to 8 weeks

Change in words-correct scores across pre- and post-training audiovisual-in-noise sentence identification tests with open-set response.

Change in phoneme-recognition scores across pre- and post-training audiovisual-in-noise word tests.up to 8 weeks

Change in phoneme-recognition scores across pre- and post-training audiovisual-in-noise isolated real word tests with open-set response.

Change in phonemes-correct scores across pre- and post-training audiovisual sentence tests.up to 8 weeks

Change in phonemes-correct scores across pre- and post-training audiovisual-in-noise sentence identification tests with open-set response.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

George Washington University

🇺🇸

Washington, Virginia, United States

George Washington University
🇺🇸Washington, Virginia, United States

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