Reading Outcomes in Children With Vestibular Loss

Description

Vestibular loss can co-occur with hearing loss causing dual sensory deficits. This project examines vestibular loss as a contributing factor to reading difficulties for children with hearing loss, where previously only the effects of hearing loss and subsequent language difficulties have been considered. These results are expected to influence the identification and habilitation of vestibular loss in children with hearing loss.

Conditions

Vestibular Disorder, Hearing Loss, Sensorineural

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Study overview

Vestibular loss can co-occur with hearing loss causing dual sensory deficits. This project examines vestibular loss as a contributing factor to reading difficulties for children with hearing loss, where previously only the effects of hearing loss and subsequent language difficulties have been considered. These results are expected to influence the identification and habilitation of vestibular loss in children with hearing loss.

Reading Outcomes in Children With Vestibular Loss

Reading Outcomes in Children With Vestibular Loss

Condition
Vestibular Disorder
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Omaha

Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68131

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Children will be required to have nonverbal problem-solving/intelligence scores within 1.5 SD of the mean (mean = 100, SD = 15, 1.5 SD of mean = 77 - 123).
  • * Children with normal hearing must have thresholds ≤20 dB HL from 0.25 to 8 kHz.
  • * Children with hearing loss must have pure-tone averages \> 65 dB HL.
  • * Fail a vision screen at 20/30
  • * Have autism, blindness, or other optic disorders, cerebral palsy, significant neurologic involvement, uncorrectable vision problems, and intellectual disability.
  • * Children with nonverbal problem-solving/intelligence scores \> 123 or \< 77 will be excluded.
  • * Each participant's current medications will be reviewed. Children taking medications known to result in oculomotor slowing will be excluded (i.e., anti-depressants, vestibular suppressants, sedatives, etc).

Ages Eligible for Study

8 Years to 14 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

Father Flanagan's Boys' Home,

Kristen L Janky, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Father Flanagan's Boys' Home

Study Record Dates

2026-06-30