Status:
RECRUITING
Reading Outcomes in Children With Vestibular Loss
Lead Sponsor:
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
Conditions:
Vestibular Disorder
Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
Eligibility:
All Genders
7-18 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Vestibular loss can co-occur with hearing loss causing dual sensory deficits. This project examines vestibular loss as a contributing factor to reading difficulties for children with hearing loss, whe...
Detailed Description
Vestibular loss can co-occur with hearing loss causing dual sensory deficits. Unfortunately, children with hearing loss are rarely assessed for vestibular loss. As a result, the impact of co-morbid ve...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Children will be required to have nonverbal problem-solving/intelligence scores within 1.5 SD of the mean (mean = 100, SD = 15, 1.5 SD of mean = 77 - 123).
- Children with normal hearing must have thresholds ≤20 dB HL from 0.25 to 8 kHz.
- Children with hearing loss must have pure-tone averages \> 65 dB HL.
Exclusion
- Fail a vision screen at 20/30
- Have autism, blindness, or other optic disorders, cerebral palsy, significant neurologic involvement, uncorrectable vision problems, and intellectual disability.
- Children with nonverbal problem-solving/intelligence scores \> 123 or \< 77 will be excluded.
- Each participant's current medications will be reviewed. Children taking medications known to result in oculomotor slowing will be excluded (i.e., anti-depressants, vestibular suppressants, sedatives, etc).
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
June 6 2022
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
June 30 2026
Estimated Enrollment :
90 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT05414903
Start Date
June 6 2022
End Date
June 30 2026
Last Update
December 23 2025
Active Locations (1)
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Boys Town National Research Hospital
Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68131