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Artificial Grammar Learning in Children Who Are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing: Stimulus Length Effect

ConditionHearing Impaired Children
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age5-7
SponsorUniversity of Illinois at Chicago

About this trial

The goal of this basic experimental study involving humans (BESH) clinical trial is to examine how stimulus length affects grammar learning in children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing and who primarily use spoken language. The main question it aims to answer is: do short or long stimuli better support grammar learning in this population? Participants will complete an artificial grammar learning task to see which condition (short vs. long stimuli) results in better grammar learning.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Aged 5- to 7-years-old

Diagnosed with bilateral hearing loss

Uses bilateral hearing devices (cochlear implants, bilateral hearing aids, or a cochlear implant and a hearing aid)

Has used first hearing device for at least one year

Disqualifiers

Younger than 5 years old

8 years, 0 months or older

Normal hearing in one or both ears

Uses one or no hearing device (e.g., cochlear implant, hearing aid)

Trial design

Design model

Single group

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Short linguistic content

    Behavioral

    Grammar-like auditory stimuli will comprise short linguistic content.

  • Long linguistic content

    Behavioral

    Grammar-like auditory stimuli will comprise long linguistic content.

Treatment groups

30 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment group
Group A: Stimulus LengthExperimental treatment 2 interventions

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Accuracy on third grammaticality judgment test

Participants will be presented with novel, grammar-like auditory stimuli. They will decide whether each stimulus matches or does not match the artificial language that they were previously presented with.

Time frame
End of day 2 of the artificial grammar learning task

Secondary outcomes

1

Accuracy on first grammaticality judgment test

Participants will be presented with novel, grammar-like auditory stimuli. They will decide whether each stimulus matches or does not match the artificial language that they were previously presented with.

Time frame
Middle of day 1 of the artificial grammar learning task
2

Accuracy on the second grammaticality judgment task

Participants will be presented with novel, grammar-like auditory stimuli. They will decide whether each stimulus matches or does not match the artificial language they were presented with previously.

Time frame
Start of day 2 of the artificial grammar learning task

Other outcomes

Locations

This trial has no locations.

Sponsors and contacts

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University of Illinois at Chicago

Lead sponsor

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)

Collaborator

Source ClinicalTrials.gov

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