CompletedNo phase
Technology-assisted Language Intervention (TALI)
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
- Where
- Aurora and Cincinnati, United StatesSee the 2 sites
- Trial code
- Status
- Completed
- People taking part
- 143 people enrolled
- Started
- 15 Oct 2020
- Ended
- 31 Mar 2026
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets an existing treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Technology assisted language intervention
- Treatment as usual
- Record updated
- 30 July 2026
Who can take part
- Age
- 3 years to 10 years
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Can take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Age 3-10 years
- Documented permanent bilateral hearing loss with severity levels clinically defined moderate to profound)
- Identified with a language deficit, defined by either the ratio of language standard scores to nonverbal intelligence quotient <.85 or a differences in nonverbal IQ and language standard scores of 10 points. Language scores may either be receptive or expressive
- Currently receiving speech-language therapy
Who cannot take part
- children with severe communication disorders (i.e. autism spectrum disorders)
- Mild hearing loss and unilateral hearing loss
- primary language other than English
- significant motor impairments
- nonverbal IQ <80
Where in United States
- Children's Hospital of ColoradoAurora, United StatesNo longer taking part
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati, United StatesNo longer taking part
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
This study is testing the effectiveness of augmentative and alternative communication technology among deaf or hard of hearing children for improving language development. Children will be randomized to receive either the technology intervention or treatment as usual
The 2 groups in the trial
- Technology Assisted Language Intervention (TALI)Existing treatment, for comparison
Augmentative and alternative communication software incorporated into active speech-language therapy
Treatment: Technology assisted language intervention
- Treatment as UsualExisting treatment, for comparison
Speech language therapy child is typically receiving (no change to current care)
Data and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Technology-assisted Language Intervention for Children Who Are Deaf/Hard-of-hearing (TALI)
- Record updated
- 30 July 2026