NCT05012774

Speech Perception Training: Advanced Scoring and Feedback Methods

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 138 (actual)
• Sponsor: SeeHear LLC · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 55 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to assess training of visual speech (lipreading) and audiovisual (lipreading plus auditory) speech as a rehabilitation strategy for hearing loss in adults.

Detailed description

It is hypothesized that training that improves lipreading in older adults can carry over to untrained lipreading materials and to audiovisual speech recognition in noise. Participants receive pre- and post-training tests of speech recognition with visual-only, auditory-only, and audiovisual spoken sentences and isolated words. During pre- and post-training tests, they carry out forced choice identification of lipread consonants. Participants who are assigned to a training arm train on lipreading isolated sentences (Aim 1) or on learning via lipreading sets of isolated nonsense words (Aim 2). Depending on the outcomes of Aims 1 and 2, in Aim 3, new participants receive audiovisual training with conditions from Aims 1 and 2.

Conditions

• Hearing Loss

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Speech Recognition Training	Training for each training arm takes place over 10 sessions carried out at home. on the participant's own computer without experimenter direct supervision. Pre- and post-training tests are carried out under experimenter supervision.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-07-14
• Primary completion: 2022-08-31
• Completion: 2023-08-31
• First posted: 2021-08-19
• Last updated: 2023-02-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States