Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Guidance Program for Parents of Deaf Children (Irsa-Triangle)

The purpose of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness of a parent guidance program on (1) the parent's communication skills, (2) the parent's sense of competence and (3) the child's language development. Concretely, 11 guidance sessions will be offered to parents by alternating two group sessions (in a common place) and one family session (at home). These sessions will be given every week and will last approximately 2 hours. The sessions will focus on working on and learning adult attitudes conducive to the development of communication and language in the child. These sessions will be interactive through questions (wooclap), exchanges, video illustrations, role playing, etc. A practical application will be proposed in daily life with the help of the video-feedback technique during the home sessions, individually with the parent.

The effectiveness of this intervention will be evaluated via a pre- and post-test conducted in the families' homes. Episodes of parent-child interactions in a play situation will be filmed and coded in order to assess the parents' communication skills (receptivity, reactivity, language support strategies, etc.). The feeling of parental competence as well as the child's language will be estimated using parent questionnaires.

The investigators hypothesize that parent guidance sessions will have an effect on the communication skills of parents of deaf children and will indirectly improve their sense of parenting competence as well as the child's language development. This study will therefore offer avenues for adapting the support of families of deaf children.

Study Overview

• Status: Suspended
• Conditions: Deaf Nonspeaking, Not Elsewhere Classified
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: parental support

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 10
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Belgium
  • Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
    • Bragard

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• deaf children and parents
• 18 months - 4 years

Exclusion Criteria:

-

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: deaf children and parents	Other: parental support; parental support

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Communication between parent and child	An episode of parent-child interactions in a play situation will be filmed before and after the intervention (pre- and post-test) in order to assess parents' communicative skills (receptivity, responsiveness, language support strategies, etc.). Fifteen minutes of free face-to-face play with a common material (Fischer Price's farm) will be recorded to provide a sample of parent-child interaction in a natural situation. The filmed interactions will be coded qualitatively via coding of verbal, paraverbal, and non-verbal exchanges that will be done using an analysis/observation grid created based on a grouping of elements from different existing grids (Adams, Gaile, Freed & Lockton, 2011; Ducerf, 2013; Prutting & Kirchner, 1987, Sylvestre, A. et al, 2019).	troughout the entire study, an average of 40 months
Child's language development	Questionnaire estimating the child's language development French Inventory of Communication Development (Kern, Langue, Zesigner, & Bovet, 2010)	troughout the entire study, an average of 40 months
Questionnaires assessing the feeling of parental competence	Global Scale of Sense of Parental Competence (GSSPC) (Meunier & Roskam, 2009) Adaptation of the SPISE-R, Scale of Parental Involvement and Self-Efficacy, revised (DesJardin, 2020)	troughout the entire study, an average of 40 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Université Catholique de Louvain

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): October 1, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 31, 2022
• Study Completion (Estimated): December 31, 2025

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 20, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 22, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): January 25, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 15, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 12, 2025
• Last Verified: May 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: communication; deaf children; language parental support
• Other Study ID Numbers: IRSA-Triangle Wallonie

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No