Rehabilitation of Narrative Language in Children With Hearing Impairment and Developmental Language Disorder
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Trial details
- Who runs it
- Alexandria University
- Trial code
- NCT05445687
- Record updated
- 30 July 2024
- Original description
The importance of narrative skills is evident in their role in language development and their relation to important academic skills namely reading, comprehension, and writing. Narratives are also essential for competent social skills, and children with delayed language development are usually found to have less proficient social communication skills. Research demonstrates the effects of narrative language intervention on improved narrative structure and complexity in addition to improved receptive and expressive use of syntax, morphology and general language use in children with narrative language impairment in various types of communication disorders. Given the importance of narrative language abilities in language development and due to lack of research targeting the assessment and intervention of narrative language skills of Arabic speaking children with language impairments, this study is dedicated towards the assessment of narrative language in Arabic speaking children and the development of a comprehensive intervention program targeting narrative language skills and its application on children with hearing impairment and developmental language disorder.Read full original descriptionShow less
Assessment and Rehabilitation of Narrative Language in Children With Hearing Impairment and Developmental Language Disorder
The importance of narrative skills is evident in their role in language development and their relation to important academic skills namely reading, comprehension, and writing. Narratives are also essential for competent social skills, and children with delayed language development are usually found to have less proficient social communication skills. Research demonstrates the effects of narrative language intervention on improved narrative structure and complexity in addition to improved receptive and expressive use of syntax, morphology and general language use in children with narrative language impairment in various types of communication disorders. Given the importance of narrative language abilities in language development and due to lack of research targeting the assessment and intervention of narrative language skills of Arabic speaking children with language impairments, this study is dedicated towards the assessment of narrative language in Arabic speaking children and the development of a comprehensive intervention program targeting narrative language skills and its application on children with hearing impairment and developmental language disorder.
Inclusion: Children with developmental language disorder of both sexes in the age group (5 to 12 years); Hearing-impaired children of both sexes with sensorineural hearing loss using auditory verbal communication in the age group (5 to 12) years with a minimum 2 years of experience with their hearing aids or cochlear implants with good benefit (hearing threshold less than 40 dB across all frequencies); Hearing impaired children using hearing aids with pure tone average thresholds at 500, 1000, and 2000 Hz between 50 and 75 dB in unaided conditions; Children with expressive language skills of at least 3 word length sentences.
Exclusion: Children with neurodevelopmental disorders (example; ASD); Children with intellectual disability; Children with additional sensory deprivation (impaired vision).