NCT04988451

Family ASL: Longitudinal Study of Deaf Children and Hearing Parents Who Receive Services to Support the Learning of ASL

Family ASL: Longitudinal Study of Deaf Children and Hearing Parents Who Receive Services to Support the Learning of American Sign Language (ASL)

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Connecticut · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study examines the development of American Sign Language by deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children and their parents.

Detailed description

After being informed about the study and potential risks, adult participants who give written informed consent and children whose parents who give written permission will be enrolled in the study. They will participate in preliminary language tasks to assess baseline performance on American Sign Language (ASL) measures. Subsequently they will have weekly sessions with an ASL Specialist to support their development of ASL, following a 6-week on/6-week off ABABABAB sequence.

Conditions

• Deafness
• Hearing Loss

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	ASL Services	ASL specialist meets with participants and provides ASL instruction

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-07-20
• Primary completion: 2025-11-30
• Completion: 2025-11-30
• First posted: 2021-08-03
• Last updated: 2025-07-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States