Status:

COMPLETED

Adaptation of a Rehabilitation Program for Prosody and Its Application on Egyptian Hearing Impaired Children

Lead Sponsor:

Sara Magdy Ibrahim

Collaborating Sponsors:

Alexandria University

Conditions:

Hearing Impaired Children

Eligibility:

All Genders

3-18 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Prosody is the melody and rhythm of speech, it is used to refer to the supra segmental aspects of speech including pitch, loudness and duration. Variations in these features achieve different prosodic...

Detailed Description

Prosody has an important role in several areas of communicative functions including : grammatical, pragmatic, affective and/or indexical functions. Prosodic abnormalities extend across a wide range of...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Hearing impaired children of both sexes, in the preschool age (from 3 to 6 years), and school age (6 to 18 years).
  • Children using auditory verbal communication.
  • Children with moderately severe or severe up to profound sensorineural hearing loss in unaided conditions, fitted with hearing aids or cochlear implant devices with good benefit (aided hearing threshold less than 40 dB across all frequencies).

Exclusion

  • Children with intellectual disability.
  • Children with brain damage.
  • Children with additional sensory deprivation (impaired vision).
  • Psychiatric problems (example; ASD).
  • Motor speech disorders (example: apraxia, dysarthria).

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

February 19 2019

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

February 16 2020

Estimated Enrollment :

55 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04691830

Start Date

February 19 2019

End Date

February 16 2020

Last Update

December 31 2020

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Alexandria University, Faculty of Medicine

Alexandria, Egypt, 21131