NCT04907929

Effectiveness Speech and Cognitive Therapy Implant Pre-cohlear Implantation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 9 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

It has been shown that in deaf people, cortical reorganisation occurs and can accelerate age-related cognitive decline. Therefore, even though a number of Cochlear Implantation Reference Centres are setting up tests to detect cognitive disorders, these remain global and not very specific to deafness. Similarly, auditory rehabilitation could make cognitive decline reversible and bring about major changes in the cognitive functioning of patients which will be decisive for the effectiveness of speech therapy and the effectiveness of implantation. Indeed, it has been shown that, in the deaf postlingual patient, less neuronal activity in the auditory cortex and a reallocation of the cortical regions dedicated to auditory processing to visual tasks took place. This could subsequently influence the outcome of the cochlear implant. The aim of this study is therefore to evaluate the effectiveness of targeted speech therapy aimed at cognitive reorganisation on post-implant gain.

Conditions

• Cochlear Implants

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	targeted speech and cognitive therapy	One month of targeted speech and cognitive therapy with a speech therapist and with home exercice at home by using a numeric solution

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-12-15
• Primary completion: 2024-12-15
• Completion: 2024-12-15
• First posted: 2021-06-01
• Last updated: 2024-12-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France