Retrieval Practice for Word Learning for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Where
- Nashville, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Status
- Completed
- People taking part
- 13 people enrolled
- Started
- 5 Feb 2023
- Ended
- 11 Jul 2025
- Type of study
- Interventional, 4 groups
- Treatments tested
- Feedback with massed trials
- Feedback with spaced trials
- No feedback with massed trials
- No feedback with spaced trials
- Record updated
- 16 March 2026
Who can take part
- Age
- 5 years to 9 years
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Cannot take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- At least minimal prelingual hearing loss
- Standard scores of at least 70 for receptive and expressive vocabulary skills
- English is only spoken language
Who cannot take part
- Uncorrected vision impairment
- Evidence of severe motor impairment
- Below average nonverbal cognition
Where in United States
- Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, United StatesNo longer taking part
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
This study is designed to advance the promising yet underutilized research on retrieval practice by evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of two key retrieval practice features (feedback and spacing). The study uses four single case adapted alternating treatments studies, each with 5- to 9-year-old children who are deaf and hard of hearing to evaluate the effects of feedback and spacing on the efficiency of word learning and retention.
The 4 groups in the trial
- Contrast ATreatment being tested
Feedback vs no feedback with massed trials
Treatment: Feedback with massed trials and No feedback with massed trials
- Contrast BTreatment being tested
Feedback vs no feedback with spaced trials
Treatment: Feedback with spaced trials and No feedback with spaced trials
- Contrast CTreatment being tested
Spaced vs massed trials without feedback
Treatment: No feedback with massed trials and No feedback with spaced trials
- Contrast DTreatment being tested
Spaced vs massed trials with feedback
Treatment: Feedback with massed trials and Feedback with spaced trials
Data and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Increasing Word Learning Efficiency in Children Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing Through Retrieval Practice
- Record updated
- 16 March 2026