NCT04473729

Improving Perception of Speech in Noise in Children With Communication Disorders

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Smarty Ears · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Smarty Ears has developed a prototype of an innovative therapeutic training system to improve speech perception in noise by training children on interrupted noise (which has silent intervals that allow for fragments of the target to be heard). The study will attempt to validate the technology and gather initial design feedback from clinicians and caregivers and from children with ASD and HL.

Detailed description

Recent evidence indicates that listening in interrupted noise can provide perceptual benefits, such as remapping the auditory environment and learning to use acoustic cues. The developed technology, uses adaptive listening training that automatically increases noise level difficulty as performance improves, and includes age appropriate rewards to maintain interest. The mobile app includes an initial and final screening, a training system that administers training via the child's own mobile device, and detailed performance dashboard. The study will attempt to validate the technology by gathering feedback from clinicians and caregivers and from children with ASD and HL.

Conditions

• Speech Perception

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Audiovisual speech training in noise for children	Children will participate in listening training in the form of an iPad app

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-07-03
• Primary completion: 2021-05-31
• Completion: 2021-05-31
• First posted: 2020-07-16
• Last updated: 2021-08-30

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States