View clinical trials related to Deafness.
Filter by:The purpose of this study is to determine if feedback from a three-dimensional real-time visualization of the tongue, a program called Opti-Speech, can be used to improve speech.
This study investigates the possible benefits of using binaural spatialization techniques in digital wireless microphone systems for hearing aids. Speech intelligibility tests, speaker localization tests and preference tests are performed. The results of a diotic (current rendering) and a binaural (suggested rendering) rendering are compared.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the long-term safety and efficacy of the Esteem® Hearing Implant in subjects suffering from moderate to severe hearing loss.
The aim of this study is to validate uHear™, an iOS-based tool, as a screening tool to detect significant hearing impairment as part of a comprehensive geriatric assessment in patients aged 70 years and older. The pass or fail screening cut-off is defined as having two or more consecutive hearing grades starting from the moderate-severe threshold zone ranging from 0.5 - 2.0 kHz.
This study examines the effect of an exercise and health education/auditory rehabilitation and socialization intervention on functional fitness, hearing handicap and psychosocial distress measures in older adults with hearing loss.
The aim of this study is to evaluate cerebral asymmetry for face processing in a group of profoundly deaf participants and a group of hearing controls by the mean of fMRI measure. To this end, we present chimeric faces (faces split into different halves), entire faces, or faces presented in divided visual field, and subjects perform a gender categorization task while lying in a fMRI scanner. It is expected to find a reduced cerebral asymmetry in the Fusiform Face Area in deaf in comparison with hearing participants.
Autologous human bone marrow mononuclear fraction (BMMF) will be harvested and given to children with bilateral moderate to severe sensorineural hearing loss. The aim is to determine if bone marrow mononuclear fraction (BMMF) infusion is safe, feasible, improves inner ear function, audition, and language development.
Congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is the leading cause of non-genetic neurosensory deafness and affects 0.5 to 1% of births. Twenty to thirty per cent of children will develop deafness, some of whom will progress gradually to profound bilateral deafness. No curative treatment is currently offered for this deterioration in hearing and management involves the use of a hearing aid or cochlear implant. Many studies describe the utility of antiviral treatment on the course of the deafness. These mostly involve neonates with multi-system symptomatic forms of the infection who have been given 6 weeks of ganciclovir possibly switched to valganciclovir, which has shown benefit in stabilising auditory loss, or even improvement.
Currently, the fitting of hearing aids is using a computer interface that allows to adjust the gain and compression of acoustic amplification. This adjustment is made face to face, patient and audiologist being located in a soundproof space to test the effectiveness of the hearing aid. However, advances in telemedicine in this context, let consider the possibility of addressing these hearing aids fitting via the same computer interface, but remotely controlled by the hearing care professional. The purpose of this study is to assess the ability to perform these tests no longer in front of the patient settings, but away from it, and without visual and sound contact other than through a computer interface. At the end, this project wants to show that a remote fitting is an acceptable procedure that provides comparable results to-face fitting in terms of speech perception, speech in noise audiometry, hearing loss related quality of life in order to be able to offer this type of strategy.
This study investigate weather one type of cochlear implant (CI) surgery (insertion of the electrode via paracentesis of the round window (RWA)) leads to less vertigo than another type of CI surgery (cochleostomy). The participants will be randomized into 2 groups: RWA or cochleostomy. They will be examined with a video head impulse test (vHIT) before and after CI surgery to clarify their vestibular function.