Cochlear Implantation for Young Single-sided Deaf Children
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
- Where
- Belgium4 sites in 1 countryChoose a country to see its sites
- Trial code
- Status
- Active, not recruiting
- People taking part
- 70 people enrolled
- Started
- Jan 2015
- Expected to end
- Dec 2026
- Type of study
- Interventional, 3 groupsOne group gets no study treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Cochlear implant
- Record updated
- 20 August 2024
Who can take part
- Age
- 1 year to 3 years
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Can take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- profoundly hearing impaired in one ear
- normal hearing in contralateral ear
Who cannot take part
- none
This trial has no sites in United States.
It has sites in one country. Choose a country to see its sites.
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
Children with profound sensorineural unilateral hearing loss (UHL) lag behind in spoken language, cognition, spatial hearing, and academic performance compared to normal hearing (NH) children. Until recently children with UHL were not remediated, thereby assuming that the normal ear would provide sufficient sensory cues for speech understanding. However, this is not true. Because of the difference between the two ears they have difficulty localizing sounds and understanding speech in noise. Such auditory deprivation leads to more global changes in neurocognitive function. It is expected that a cochlear implant in the deaf ear will provide the necessary cues for hearing with two ears. The main objective of this research project is to fundamentally investigate language, cognitive, and spatial/binaural hearing longitudinally in children with unilateral deafness who receive a cochlear implant and age-matched peers.
The 3 groups in the trial
- Cochlear implant for single-sided deafnessTreatment being tested
Children with single-sided deafness, cochlear implant in the deaf ear
Treatment: Cochlear implant
- Control single-sided deafnessNo study treatment, for comparison
Children with single-sided deafness, no intervention
- Control normal hearingNo study treatment, for comparison
Children with normal hearing, no intervention
Data and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Cochlear Implant for Young Children and One Deaf Ear
- Record updated
- 20 August 2024