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| Name | Class |
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| University of Geneva, Switzerland | OTHER |
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Learning to speak is a major challenge for children with hearing impairments. Nowadays, special devices such as conventional hearing aids, bone-anchored hearing aids (BAHA) or cochlear implants (CI) allow successful rehabilitation of patients with hearing disabilities. To obtain maximum benefit from these technical aids, instrumented hearing impaired children require specific and intensive speech therapy to compensate for speech development delays. In addition, it is also of primary importance that during daily life (e.g., at home, at school) children are provided with sufficient and good quality auditory stimulation.
The main goal of this project is to encourage speech production with an edutainment tool that can be used at home and that is adapted to the specific needs of young hearing impaired children. For this purpose, the investigators have recently designed an innovative educational solution: FunSpeech, a tablet-based set of video games that respond exclusively to sound and speech. The aim of this serious game is to encourage hearing impaired children to produce controlled sounds in terms of rhythm, intensity, and pitch. These are the main abilities required for controlled speech production. Finally, this serious game aims to support the parents' key role in the speech learning process by offering an effective solution that is easy to use at home with young children.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Primo-FunSpeech | Experimental | Participants will begin the study by a period using FunSpeech (45 days) followed by a control period without the game (45 days). This sequence will be repeated once. |
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| Primo-control | Experimental | Participants will begin the study by a control period without the game (45 days) followed by a period using FunSpeech (45 days). This sequence will be repeated once. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| FunSpeech | Behavioral | Weekly sessions of regular speech therapy as regularly performed for the individual participant (one hour, once or twice a week) and parent-supervised home use of a serious game. It will be recommended to use FunSpeech every day, 15 minutes per day. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Parental inventory (questionnaire) and observation grid of speech production skills completed by the speech therapist. | Quantitative and qualitative assessments of spoken language level. | 6 months |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Game usage (total play time, frequency of play sessions, list of games used, gameplay goals achieved) | This data will be gathered via a tracking system implemented in the game and parental interviews (questionnaires). | 6 months |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Ergonomy questionnaire (ease of use) on a seven-point Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree to 7 = strongly agree). | Game usability | 6 months |
| Open interview (issues/concerns about the game) | Acceptance degree of the game |
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Geneva University Hospitals | Geneva | 1205 | Switzerland |
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| ID | Term |
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| D003638 | Deafness |
| D034381 | Hearing Loss |
| ID | Term |
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| D006311 | Hearing Disorders |
| D004427 | Ear Diseases |
| D010038 | Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases |
| D012678 | Sensation Disorders |
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Cross-over, repeated-measures, open without masking.
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| Control | Behavioral | Weekly sessions of regular speech therapy as regularly performed for the individual participant (one hour, once or twice a week). |
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| 6 months |
| D009461 |
| Neurologic Manifestations |
| D009422 | Nervous System Diseases |
| D012816 | Signs and Symptoms |
| D013568 | Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms |