Listening Study for Children
Principal Investigator: Kaylah Lalonde, Ph.D.
Researchers at Boys Town National Research Hospital are studying how lip reading helps children understand speech.
Frequency specific audibility is a measure of how much speech a person can hear at each pitch. The more hearing loss there is at a certain pitch, the poorer the audibility. Our lab is studying how frequency specific audibility affects how much speech children can understand when talking with someone face-to-face.
We expect that lipreading is more helpful for children who have hearing loss at higher pitches because lipreading helps fill in the “blanks" of the high-pitched speech sounds they cannot hear.
Using the information from this study, audiologists will be able to use frequency specific audibility to better estimate how much speech a child with hearing loss can understand when talking with someone face-to-face. This may help guide decisions about speech and language therapy.
Who can Participate?
- Children with permanent hearing loss in both ears
- Ages 7-12 years
What will participants do?
- Receive a hearing test
- Listen to people talking and repeat what they say
Where does the study take place?
Boys Town National Research Hospital
555 N 30th Street
Compensation
$20/hour
For more information, please call 531-355-6664 or email avspeech@boystown.org
