Condition 1: Hearing Loss. Condition 2: Auditory processing disorder. Sensorineural hearing loss, bilateral Central auditory processing disorder
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention 1: Intervention group: Group A- Conventional behavioral auditory attention training will be provided together with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), for 30 seconds, the curr
Sponsors
University of social welfare and rehabilitation sciences
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
8 Years to 11 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Children with moderate to severe sensorineural hearing loss aged 8-11 years old Permanent user of binaural hearing aids for at least three years Equal or better than 30 dB HL aided hearing thresholds An abnormal score in the BKB-SIN and at least one of the TEA-ch and/or mSAAT tests right-handed In the age range of 8-11years Normal or corrected vision Complete the consent form to participate in the training program Normal findings in otoscopy and tympanometry Working memory capacity of at least 3 units in direct didit span test The standard IQ score or better than 85 score in Persian version of the revised Wechsler Intelligence Test for Children (R-WISC) The ability to cooperate in carrying out the tests foreseen in the research
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Unwillingness to cooperate in each stage of the research Obvious developmental and behavioral problems based on the evaluation results recorded in the children's medical record A history of obvious neurological and cognitive diseases and head trauma Auditory neuropathy based on OAE and ABR indicators (according to children's hearing records)
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Bamford-Kowal-Bench Sentence Test Score. Timepoint: Before the intervention - after the intervention - one month after the end of the intervention. Method of measurement: The percentage of correctly expressed target words - the amount of SNR Loss based on the calculation formula.;Consonant-Vowel In Noise Test Score. Timepoint: Before the intervention - after the intervention - one month after the end of the intervention. Method of measurement: according to percentage of correct answers.;Sustained attention score in the test of everyday attention for children (TEA- ch) score. Timepoint: Before the intervention - after the intervention - one month after the end of the intervention. Method of measurement: according to the number of correct answers.;Monaural Selective Auditory Attention Test Score. Timepoint: Before the intervention - after the intervention - one month after the end of the intervention. Method of measurement: Calculation of the percentage of correct repetition of the target words.;Word In Noise Test Score. Timepoint: Before the intervention - after the intervention - one month after the end of the intervention. Method of measurement: Calculation of 50% of words in different signal-to-noise ratios.;Components of Electroencephalography (EEG). Timepoint: Before the intervention - after the intervention - one month after the end of the intervention. Method of measurement: With EEGLab software. | — |
Countries
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Contacts
Public ContactNayiere Mansouri
University of social welfare and rehabilitation sciences
Outcome results
None listed