Rehabilitation of Narrative Language in Children With Hearing Impairment and Developmental Language Disorder
Hearing Impaired Children, Developmental Language Disorder
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Hearing Impaired Children focused on measuring Hearing impairment, Developmental language disorder, Narrative language, Language rehabilitation
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Children with developmental language disorder of both sexes in the age group (5 to 12 years).
- Hearing-impaired children of both sexes with sensorineural hearing loss using auditory verbal communication in the age group (5 to 12) years with a minimum 2 years of experience with their hearing aids or cochlear implants with good benefit (hearing threshold less than 40 dB across all frequencies).
- Hearing impaired children using hearing aids with pure tone average thresholds at 500, 1000, and 2000 Hz between 50 and 75 dB in unaided conditions.
- Children with expressive language skills of at least 3 word length sentences.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Children with intellectual disability.
- Children with neurodevelopmental disorders (example; ASD).
- Children with additional sensory deprivation (impaired vision).
Sites / Locations
- Alexandria UniversityRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Arm 4
Experimental
Active Comparator
Experimental
Active Comparator
Hearing Impairment cases
Hearing Impairment control
Developmental language disorder cases
Developmental language disorder control
Hearing impaired children who will receive the proposed narrative intervention program. The program will include 24 illustrated story sequences with a minimum of 5 sequences representing the main story elements: characters and setting; problems; internal response; actions; and consequence. Story icons will be designed to represent the main 5 elements to accompany storytelling and act as visual prompts.The narrative intervention program will be applied on the cases groups by a phoniatrician in 24 sessions, 60 minutes in duration, one session per week, for 3 months.
The Hearing impairment control group will receive the conventional language rehabilitation sessions in 30 minute sessions twice a week, for 3 months. Conventional language therapy targets semantics, syntax, prosody, pragmatics, and phonology.
Developmental language disorder children who will receive the proposed narrative intervention program. The program will include 24 illustrated story sequences with a minimum of 5 sequences representing the main story elements: characters and setting; problems; internal response; actions; and consequence. Story icons will be designed to represent the main 5 elements to accompany storytelling and act as visual prompts.The narrative intervention program will be applied on the cases groups by a phoniatrician in 24 sessions, 60 minutes in duration, one session per week, for 3 months.
The developmental language disorder control group will receive the conventional language rehabilitation sessions in 30 minute sessions twice a week, for 3 months. Conventional language therapy targets semantics, syntax, prosody, pragmatics, and phonology.