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Effectiveness of Speech Therapy for Lip-reading in Patients With Hearing Aids: SCED Study
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Institut Pasteur
- Where
- France1 site in 1 countryChoose a country to see its sites
- Trial code
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 8 people, planned
- Started
- 16 Oct 2025
- Planned end
- Sept 2026
- Type of study
- Observational
- Treatments tested
- Speechreading training
- Record updated
- 3 April 2026
Who can take part
- Age
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Cannot take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Patient aged 18 or older
- Affiliated with a social security system
- Moderate to severe bilateral post-lingual hearing loss, fitted with hearing aids for more than 6 months
- Wearing hearing aids for a minimum of 8 hours/day on average over the past month
- Intelligibility in quiet > 80% correct responses at 60 dB (Lafon cochlear list)
- Difficulty in noisy environments rated > 6 on a 0-10 EVA scale
- French language comprehension level of at least B1 CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages)
- Willing to participate in speech therapy rehabilitation at a rate of 2 sessions per week
Who cannot take part
- Patient who has already undergone speech therapy rehabilitation as part of their hearing loss treatment
- Diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease or history of brain injury (traumatic brain injury, stroke, tumor, meningitis, etc.)
- Uncorrected vision or visual impairment affecting lip reading (e.g. AMD, glaucoma, unoperated cataract, etc.)
- Significant cognitive impairment (CODEX C or D) or Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA) score < 23
- Presence of severe tinnitus (score > 56) on the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) questionnaire
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
This study aims to investigate whether lip reading rehabilitation improves viseme recognition in individuals with hearing impairments who use hearing aids.
Treatments tested
- Speechreading training
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Efficacité de la rééducation Orthophonique de la Lecture Labiale Des Patients appareillés Auditifs : étude SCED
- Record updated
- 3 April 2026