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Trial reportJournal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR2019

Parent-Implemented Communication Treatment for Infants and Toddlers With Hearing Loss: A Randomized Pilot Trial.

Megan Y Roberts

Registry-linked trialAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05512000 (Increasing Word Learning Efficiency in Children Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing Through Retrieval Practice), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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20citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.4field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT05512000 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2023, after this paper: background citation

Increasing Word Learning Efficiency in Children Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing Through Retrieval Practice

TypeinterventionalSponsorVanderbilt University Medical CenterRan2023 to 2025Enrolled13ConditionsHearing Loss, Language ImpairmentArmsFeedback with massed trials, Feedback with spaced trials, No feedback with massed trials, No feedback with spaced trials
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 62 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Parent-child interaction and early pragmatic, auditory and linguistic abilities in deaf children.Acta otorhinolaryngologica Italica : organo ufficiale della Societa italiana di otorinolaringologia e chirurgia cervico-facciale · 2025
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  10. Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence in Otolaryngology and the Communication Sciences.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2022
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  19. Affording autism an early brain development re-definition.Development and psychopathology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Megan Y RobertsDepartment of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Northwestern University · US

Funding

Pre-Implantation Communication Treatment for Children with Hearing LossR03DC012639 · NIDCD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI ROBERTS, MEGAN Y · 2012 to 2014
$457k
NIDCD NIH HHS R03 DC012639
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purpose Despite advances in cochlear implant and hearing aid technology, many children with hearing loss continue to exhibit poorer language skills than their hearing peers. This randomized pilot trial tested the effects of a parent-implemented communication treatment targeting prelinguistic communication skills in infants and toddlers with hearing loss. Method Participants included 19 children between 6 and 24 months of age with moderate to profound, bilateral hearing loss. Children were randomly assigned to the parent-implemented communication treatment group or a "usual care" control group. Parents and children participated in 26, hour-long home sessions in which parents were taught to use communication support strategies. The primary outcome measures were the Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales (Wetherby & Prizant, 2003), a measure of child prelinguistic skills, and parental use of communication support strategies during a naturalistic play session. Results Parents in the treatment group increased their use of communication support strategies by 17%. Children in the treatment group made statistically significant more gains in speech prelinguistic skills ( d = 1.09, p = .03) as compared with the control group. There were no statistically significant differences in social and symbolic prelinguistic skills; however, the effect sizes were large ( d = 0.78, p = .08; d = 0.91, p = .10). Conclusions This study provides modest preliminary support for the short-term effects of a parent-implemented communication treatment for children with hearing loss. Parents learned communication support strategies that subsequently impacted child prelinguistic skills. Although these results appear promising, the sample size is very small. Future research should include a larger clinical trial and child-level predictors of response to treatment.

Indexed as

Early Intervention, EducationalHearing LossParentsCommunication DisordersFemaleHumansInfantLanguage DevelopmentMaleParent-Child RelationsPilot Projects

Identifiers

PMID30535174
PMCPMC6437700
OpenAlexW2904344426

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