Eyes On Lips? Speechreading Skills and Facial Expression Discrimination in Children With and Without Impaired Hearing
Hearing Impairment, Hearing Impaired Children
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Hearing Impairment focused on measuring hearing impairment, child, speechreading, lipreading, development, eye-tracking, hearing loss
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: Normally hearing children: age 8-11 years being born full-term (on 37. gestational week or later) Finnish speaking (Finnish is the language the child's family uses at home, the child goes to a school where Finnish is used as the language of instruction) normal hearing and vision typically developing, mainstream education curriculum at school for those tested remotely: computer available at home for remote testing Children with hearing impairment/loss: age 8-11 years diagnosed bilateral hearing impairment being born full-term (on 37. gestational week or later) Finnish speaking (Finnish is the language the child's family uses at home, the child goes to a school where Finnish is used as the language of instruction) normal vision (mainly) typically developing for those tested remotely: computer available at home for remote testing Exclusion Criteria: Normally hearing children: psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders, including ADHD (Attention Deficit and Hyperacitivity Disorder) Children with hearing impairment/loss: psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders (excluding ADHD if medication helps the child to concentrate well during testing)
Sites / Locations
- University of OuluRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
No Intervention
Experimental
No Intervention
Normally hearing children
Children with hearing impairment/loss with intervention
Children with hearing impairment/loss with no intervention
No intervention, only initial testing (normal-hearing controls).
These children participate in speechreading training for two months at home.
These children will serve as controls for two months with no speechreading training.