Hearing Loss. Sensorineural hearing loss, bilateral
Conditions
Interventions
Behavior
Intervention 1: Intervention group: Narrative Based Language Intervention is a kind of tell-story training program to children. It has four levels, consist of: warm up phase, story retelling stage, st
Intervention group: Narrative Based Language Intervention is a kind of tell-story training program to children. It has four levels, consist of: warm up phase, story retelling stage, story generation s
Control group: The conventional tasks of speech therapy will be utilized for tell-story training in control group. These tasks are consisting of: imitation of compound sentences, phrasing, incomplete
Sponsors
Tehran University of Medical Siences, Vice chancellor for research
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
5 Years to 7 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Inclusion criteria consist of: Pre-lingual profound sensory-neural hearing loss; unilateral cochlear implantation (CI) before aged 5 years; having the 22 processors CI prosthesis; using the hearing aid on contra-lateral ear; able to sentence production; to roll at least 1 year from cochlear implantation; orally Persian as the preferred language in children's family; aged between 5 to 17 years; having the Intelligence Quotient (IQ) ability in normal range; no known eyesight disorders; learning disabilities or co-morbidity such as Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD); motor disorders; Mental Retardation (MR); autism; and so on; nonexistence of the history of narrative interventions; lack of the story-telling ability whether due to speech therapy or self-learning. Exclusion criteria consist of: Family's or child's discontent to continue of the study; to be broken down the cochlear implant prosthesis for more than 2 weeks; to fall sick so that intervention process has to be disrupted for more than 3 weeks (except common colds).
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria:
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Frequency of Story Grammar. Timepoint: Before of Intervention, 2 months after Intervention, 2 months for follow up. Method of measurement: Questionnary of Language Sample Analaysis Test.;Frequency of Main Information in Story. Timepoint: Before of Intervention, 2 months after Intervention, 2 months for follow up. Method of measurement: Questionnary of Language Sample Analaysis Test.;Event Sequencing. Timepoint: Before of Intervention, 2 months after Intervention, 2 months for follow up. Method of measurement: Questionnary of Language Sample Analaysis Test.;Frequency of Correct Clauses. Timepoint: Before of Intervention, 2 months after Intervention, 2 months for follow up. Method of measurement: Questionnary of Language Sample Analaysis Test.;Frequency of Cohesive Markers. Timepoint: Before of Intervention, 2 months after Intervention, 2 months for follow up. Method of measurement: Questionnary of Language Sample Analaysis Test.;Average of terminable-units Length. Timepoint: Before of Intervention, 2 months after Intervention, 2 months for follow up. Method of measurement: Questionnary of Language Sample Analaysis Test.;Subordination Index. Timepoint: Before of Intervention, 2 months after Intervention, 2 months for follow up. Method of measurement: Questionnary of Language Sample Analaysis Test.;Narrative Cohesion. Timepoint: Before of Intervention, 2 months after Intervention, 2 months for follow up. Method of measurement: Questionnary of Language Sample Analaysis Test.;Accurracy Performance of Narrative. Timepoint: Before of Intervention, 2 months after Intervention, 2 months for follow up. Method of measurement: Questionnary of Language Sample Analaysis Test. | — |
Secondary
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| -. Timepoint: -. Method of measurement: -. | — |
Countries
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Contacts
Public ContactPeyman Zamani
Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Rehabilitation School, Dep. of Speech Therapy
Outcome results
None listed