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Audiological Rehabilitation of Children With Unilateral Hearing Loss (SHINE)

3. November 2026 aktualisiert von: Father Flanagan's Boys' Home

The goal of this study is to examine the effects of hearing aids and early intervention on hearing, language, and neural development in children with hearing loss in one ear, known as unilateral hearing loss. The main research questions are:

  1. Do children with unilateral hearing loss with earlier access to hearing aids and early intervention have better speech understanding in noise than children with unilateral hearing loss with later or no access to intervention?
  2. Do children with unilateral hearing loss with earlier access to intervention have more typical responses in the brain than children with late or no access to intervention?
  3. Do children with unilateral hearing loss with earlier access to intervention have better speech and language skills than children with late or no access to intervention?

Researchers will collect hearing, language, and neural data and information about each child's access to intervention to examine the longitudinal impact of auditory experience on these outcomes.

Participants and their caregivers will:

  • Answer questions about the child's health, developmental, and hearing histories.
  • Receive hearing tests and speech recognition tests.
  • Complete tests of speech and language abilities.
  • A subset of eligible participants will undergo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magneotencephalography (MEG).

Studienübersicht

Status

Rekrutierung

Bedingungen

Intervention / Behandlung

Detaillierte Beschreibung

More than 5 million children in the United States have hearing loss in one ear, known as unilateral hearing loss (UHL). The primary consequence of UHL is reduced spatial hearing, which is crucial for communication and functioning in everyday listening conditions. Children with UHL (CUHL) are at risk for delays in language and academic outcomes compared to peers with normal hearing in both ears. However, there are large individual differences in developmental outcomes that cannot be explained by the degree of hearing loss in the affected ear. CUHL also have a wide range of spatial hearing abilities, and there is currently limited evidence to link individual differences in spatial hearing to the wide range of developmental outcomes that are observed in CUHL. The lack of predictable patterns of risk for CUHL leads to inconsistent recommendations for audiological intervention or intervention that commences only after a child demonstrates fails to progress in language or academic outcomes. Audiologists have the option to improve spatial hearing in CUHL through fitting a hearing aid on the affected ear, but hearing aids are often not provided or are only provided at later ages, even when UHL is identified in the first few months of life. The lack of consistent practices around provision of hearing aids for CUHL is due to limited evidence that hearing aids can support binaural processing in CUHL. This project seeks to provide mechanistic evidence to support earlier and more timely intervention for CUHL. Researchers will use a metric referred to as auditory dosage to quantify auditory input to the affected ear based on aided and unaided speech audibility and consistency of hearing aid use. Auditory dosage is expected to be the primary predictor of individual differences in outcomes for CUHL. The core hypothesis of the proposal is that CUHL who have higher auditory dosage in their affected ear will have better spatial hearing, which in turn leads to better language and academic outcomes than peers with lower auditory dosage in their affected ear. Experiments will combine behavioral and neuroimaging measures of spatial hearing with and without amplification to assess how auditory dosage in the affected ear influences spatial hearing, language, and academic outcomes in CUHL. Researchers will analyze the effects of hearing aid distortion and auditory dosage on behavioral measures of spatial hearing with and without amplification. Structural and functional neuroimaging, including magnetoencephalography and magnetic resonance imaging, will be used to assess the impact of auditory dosage on spatial hearing in CUHL. The study will use an accelerated longitudinal design to assess the mediating effects of spatial hearing on the association between hearing aid distortion and auditory dosage and language and academic outcomes in CUHL. These experiments will provide mechanistic evidence to help guide decisions about audiological intervention for CUHL and lead to individualized interventions to improve spatial hearing, language, and academic outcomes for CUHL.

Studientyp

Beobachtungs

Einschreibung (Geschätzt)

160

Kontakte und Standorte

Dieser Abschnitt enthält die Kontaktdaten derjenigen, die die Studie durchführen, und Informationen darüber, wo diese Studie durchgeführt wird.

Studienkontakt

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Studienorte

    • Iowa
      • Iowa City, Iowa, Vereinigte Staaten, 52242
        • Noch keine Rekrutierung
        • University of Iowa
        • Kontakt:
        • Hauptermittler:
          • Elizabeth Walker, PhD
    • Nebraska
      • Omaha, Nebraska, Vereinigte Staaten, 68131
        • Rekrutierung
        • Boys Town National Research Hospital
        • Kontakt:
        • Hauptermittler:
          • Ryan McCreery, PhD
        • Unterermittler:
          • Nicole Corbin, PhD
        • Unterermittler:
          • Dawna Lewis, PhD
    • North Carolina
      • Chapell Hill, North Carolina, Vereinigte Staaten, 27599
        • Noch keine Rekrutierung
        • University of North Carolina, Chapell Hill
        • Kontakt:
        • Hauptermittler:
          • Emily Buss, PhD
        • Unterermittler:
          • Caitlin Sapp, PhD

Teilnahmekriterien

Forscher suchen nach Personen, die einer bestimmten Beschreibung entsprechen, die als Auswahlkriterien bezeichnet werden. Einige Beispiele für diese Kriterien sind der allgemeine Gesundheitszustand einer Person oder frühere Behandlungen.

Zulassungskriterien

Studienberechtigtes Alter

6 Jahre bis 16 Jahre (Kind)

Akzeptiert gesunde Freiwillige

Ja

Studienberechtigte Geschlechter

Alle

Probenahmeverfahren

Nicht-Wahrscheinlichkeitsprobe

Studienpopulation

Children with normal hearing and children with unilateral hearing loss will be recruited from hospitals, audiology clinics, and education agencies across the United States.

Beschreibung

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Children with normal hearing will have hearing thresholds from 0.25 - 8 kHz ≤15 dB HL in both ears.
  • Children with normal hearing will have no history of neurodevelopmental, communication, or sensory disorders.
  • Children with unilateral hearing loss will have hearing thresholds that meet the criterion for CNH in the better ear and three-frequency (.5, 1, & 2 kHz) pure-tone average ≥ 20 - <70 dB HL or two or more hearing thresholds ≥ 20 - < 70 dB HL from 2-8 kHz in the poorer ear. H
  • Children with unilateral hearing loss can have conductive, mixed, or sensorineural hearing loss.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Individuals with a cochlear implant, rerouting device, or an implanted bone conduction device will be excluded due to neuroimaging restrictions with implantable devices.
  • For neuroimaging experiments only:
  • Current use of the following medications: psychotropic medications or other medications with significant CNS effects (e.g., antidepressants, antipsychotics, anticonvulsants, alpha-agonists, adrenergic blockers, lithium, and sedating antihistamines), or other excluded medication.
  • Current major psychiatric diagnosis.
  • Current substance abuse or substance dependence.
  • Diagnosis of a known neurological disorder or any major medical illness or injury impacting neurological/psychiatric function (e.g., diabetes, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, HIV, traumatic brain injury, significant environmental/toxic injury, neurodegenerative disorder, past meningitis/encephalitis).
  • General medical conditions: any major medical conditions that would interfere with involvement in the study or may affect CNS function as judged by the investigative team.
  • Presence of any ferrous metal implant, including orthodonture or pacemaker, which may interfere with the MEG data acquisition and/or be an MRI safety concern.

Studienplan

Dieser Abschnitt enthält Einzelheiten zum Studienplan, einschließlich des Studiendesigns und der Messung der Studieninhalte.

Wie ist die Studie aufgebaut?

Designdetails

  • Beobachtungsmodelle: COHORT
  • Zeitperspektiven: PROSPECTIVE

Kohorten und Interventionen

Gruppe / Kohorte
Intervention / Behandlung
Unilateral hearing loss

Children with unilateral hearing loss with hearing aids and children with unilateral hearing loss without hearing aids.

Hearing aids amplify acoustic sound to provide access to acoustic cues for communication and spatial hearing.

Was misst die Studie?

Primäre Ergebnismessungen

Ergebnis Maßnahme
Maßnahmenbeschreibung
Zeitfenster
Spatial release from masking
Zeitfenster: At enrollment

Spatial release from masking is the difference in the speech recognition threshold for 50% sentence keyword recognition in decibels when a target talker and masker are co-located compared to when the target and masker are spatially separated.

At enrollment
Morphosyntax
Zeitfenster: At enrollment, 12 months after enrollment and 24 months after enrollment.

Morphosyntax is the combination of morphology (the internal structure of words) and syntax (the rules for arranging words into sentences), which quantifies how word forms and sentence structures work together to encode meaning. Morphosyntax will be measured using the Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language (CASL) Grammatical Morphemes subtest. This standardized instrument has a range from 0 - 20 with an average score of 10. The proportion of children with unilateral hearing loss who fall within the range of children with typical bilateral hearing matched for age and nonverbal intelligence will be compared.

At enrollment, 12 months after enrollment and 24 months after enrollment.

Sekundäre Ergebnismessungen

Ergebnis Maßnahme
Maßnahmenbeschreibung
Zeitfenster
Localization
Zeitfenster: At enrollment

Localization is the ability to identify the direction that a sound originates in the horizontal plane without visual cues. Localization will be measured in sound field in an 11-speaker array where the child must identify the azimuth of sounds presented from different locations. Localization errors are calculated as the difference in degrees between the child's indicated location and the location where the sound is presented. The range of errors can be 0 - 180 degrees. Children with unilateral hearing loss will be compared to children with typical bilateral hearing.

At enrollment
Vocabulary
Zeitfenster: At enrollment, 12 months after enrollment, and 24 months after enrollment.

Vocabulary is the ability to understand and use word meaning. Vocabulary will be measured using the The Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills (TILLS) Vocabulary Awareness subtest. The subtest has a range of 0 - 20 with a mean score of 10. The proportion of children with unilateral hearing loss who fall within the range of children with typical bilateral hearing matched for age and nonverbal intelligence will be compared.

At enrollment, 12 months after enrollment, and 24 months after enrollment.

Mitarbeiter und Ermittler

Hier finden Sie Personen und Organisationen, die an dieser Studie beteiligt sind.

Sponsor

Mitarbeiter

Ermittler

  • Hauptermittler: Ryan McCreery, PhD, Father Flanagan's Boys' Home

Studienaufzeichnungsdaten

Diese Daten verfolgen den Fortschritt der Übermittlung von Studienaufzeichnungen und zusammenfassenden Ergebnissen an ClinicalTrials.gov. Studienaufzeichnungen und gemeldete Ergebnisse werden von der National Library of Medicine (NLM) überprüft, um sicherzustellen, dass sie bestimmten Qualitätskontrollstandards entsprechen, bevor sie auf der öffentlichen Website veröffentlicht werden.

Haupttermine studieren

Studienbeginn (Tatsächlich)

1. Juli 2026

Primärer Abschluss (Geschätzt)

30. Juni 2031

Studienabschluss (Geschätzt)

30. Juni 2031

Studienanmeldedaten

Zuerst eingereicht

27. Oktober 2026

Zuerst eingereicht, das die QC-Kriterien erfüllt hat

27. Oktober 2026

Zuerst gepostet (Tatsächlich)

3. November 2026

Studienaufzeichnungsaktualisierungen

Letztes Update gepostet (Tatsächlich)

5. November 2026

Letztes eingereichtes Update, das die QC-Kriterien erfüllt

3. November 2026

Zuletzt verifiziert

1. November 2026

Mehr Informationen

Begriffe im Zusammenhang mit dieser Studie

Andere Studien-ID-Nummern

  • R01DC023371 (US NIH Stipendium/Vertrag)

Plan für individuelle Teilnehmerdaten (IPD)

Planen Sie, individuelle Teilnehmerdaten (IPD) zu teilen?

JA

Beschreibung des IPD-Plans

All IPD will be shared.

IPD-Sharing-Zeitrahmen

The study protocol, statistical analysis plan, and informed consent forms will be made available at the beginning of the study. The analytic code will be made available as soon as data analysis commences. These will be made available via the project registry and will be maintained until 5 years after the study end date.

IPD-Sharing-Zugriffskriterien

The IPD will be publicly available through a repository.

Art der unterstützenden IPD-Freigabeinformationen

  • STUDIENPROTOKOLL
  • SAFT
  • ICF
  • ANALYTIC_CODE

Arzneimittel- und Geräteinformationen, Studienunterlagen

Studiert ein von der US-amerikanischen FDA reguliertes Arzneimittelprodukt

Nein

Studiert ein von der US-amerikanischen FDA reguliertes Geräteprodukt

Nein

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