Development of an Arabic Central Auditory Processing Remediation Program for Dyslexic Children With(C)APD

Dyslexia Clinical Trial

Official title:

Development of an Arabic Central Auditory Processing Remediation Program for Dyslexic Children With(Central) Auditory Processing Disorder

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04708899
• Other study ID #: 00018699
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 1, 2020
• Est. completion date: March 20, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: February 2023
• Source: Alexandria University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Rehabilitation of dyslexic children with (cental) auditory processing disorder. The first group will receive the proposed program the arabic version of differential processing training program and the control group will receive the computer based auditory traing program (CBAT).

Description:

Central Auditory Processing Disorder(C)APD is defined as difficulty for children with normal hearing to listen selectively in the presence of noise, to combine information from two ears properly, to process speech when it is slightly degraded, and to integrate auditory information when it is delivered faster than the individual with (C)APD can process.( The estimated prevalence of (C)APD in the school-aged population is approximately 2 to 5 %, and the estimated prevalence of (C)APD in the older adult population is 76 %. These percentages are higher than those affected by hearing loss. Dyslexia and (C)APD are common comorbidities and since there is limited research on (C)APD within each related academic discipline. Furthermore the language, audiologiological , and cognitive nature of the disorder confirmed that a multi-disciplinary effort is needed in order to provide clinical decision and effective intervention for the (C)APD population. Hence Development of additional intervention tools for use in clinics, schools and home settings is warranted . The aim of this work is to develop a novel Arabic (C)APD remediation program ,to study the outcome of the program and to validate it's effectiveness by comparing it to the Arabic computer based auditory training(CBAT) program.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 52
• Est. completion date: March 20, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: March 20, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 6 Years to 12 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. dyslexic children with (C)APD

2. Age from 6-12 years.

3. No gender limit.

4. Normal peripheral hearing i.e pure tone averages (average threshold from 250to 8000 Hz) should be less than or equal 25dB hearing level bilaterally.

5. Normal speech audiometry results.

6. Normal results on immitancemetry.

7. Average or below average IQ.

8. Normal language development.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. ADHD subjects. 2. Associated neurological and psychiatric disorders. -

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Auditory Perceptual Disorders
• Central Auditory Processing Disorder
• Dyslexia
• Language Development Disorders

Intervention

Behavioral:
• arabic version of differential processing training program
comprehensive training program for central auditory processing disorder contains auditory and linguistic tasks (language organization, phonemic and phonetic awareness, dichotic listening,temporal patterning and auditory discrimination).
• Arabic computer based auditory traing program(CBAT)
comprehensive computer based traing program for central auditory processing disorder contains auditory memory, temporal processing, dichotic listening , selective attention and phonemic awareness games.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Egypt	Alexandria university	Alexandria	Azarita

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Rana ElShafaei	Alexandria University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Egypt, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Effect on dichotic listening	assessed by screening and full version dichotic digits test pretherapy and post therapy	within 6 months
Primary	Effect on speech discrimination in noise.	assesed by screening and full version(auditory figure ground) SPIN test pretherapy and post therapy	Within 6 months
Primary	Effect on temporal processing	assessed by screening and full version pitch pattern sequence test (PPST) pretherapy and post therapy	within 6 months
Secondary	change in phonological processing and awareness skills	assessed by phonological awareness assessment pretherapy and post therapy	within 6month to 1 year