Language Development
Conditions
Keywords
cochlear implant, language environment, speech therapy assessment, LENA technology
Brief summary
The Language Environment Analysis (LENA) system is a specific tool for the language environment analysis. Children aged from 18 months to 6 years old, with cochlear implants (CIs), wear an electronic device during a day and their language interactions are registered. Then the investigators can analyze with a specific software four different parameters (adult words, conversational turns, child vocalizations and media exposure) and compare them to the language ability of the children assessed by a speech therapist. With the results, the speech therapist can advise the parents how to improve the language environment to help their children with CIs for their language development. Parents are encouraged to follow these advices at home during few months (5 months +/-1 month). Then there is a new registration of the LENA device and another language assessment are performed, to see if there is any improvement. The investigators also measure the family participation. Hypothesis : There is an influence of the language environment measured by the LENA system on language development in children with cochlear implants.
Detailed description
Over 24 months the investigators will recruit 90 patients with cochlear implants (CIs) in 2 centers. Each patient will follow during 5 months and will have three or five visits according to the arm.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALLENA and advice
Language recording with the LENA device, with the LENA results, we will advise the parents how to improve the language environment to help their children with CIs for their language development
OTHERLENA without advice
Language recording with the LENA device. Regular speech therapy follow blindly the results of LENA
Sponsors
Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades
University Hospital, Montpellier
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Months to 6 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Eligibility Criteria:\* Inclusion criteria: * Congenital profound deaf children * aged from 18 months to 5 years old 11 months * with a cochlear implant at least since 6 months * regular following in speech therapy
Exclusion criteria
* non-francophone parents * syndrome (like CHARGE syndrome) or aplasia * partial insertion of the electrode array * associated troubles (Autism Spectrum Disorders, mental retardation…) * visual troubles * irregular use of the cochlear implant (externe part) * absence of parental consent
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Change in language environment measured by LENA system | At the inclusion, and 5 months after the inclusion |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Change in language ability measured by the Grammatical Analysis Of Elicited Language Presentence level (GAEL-P) | At the inclusion, and 5 months after the inclusion |
| Change in language ability measured by a vocabulary scale with peabody images (EVIP) (EVIP) | At the inclusion, and 5 months after the inclusion |
Outcome results
None listed