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Reading Outcomes in Children With Vestibular Loss

Who can join

Ages 7 to 18 · All sexes · Healthy volunteers welcome

Inclusion 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.

Exclusion Criteria:

* 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).

About the study

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.

What is being tested

• Dynamic Visual Acuity (behavioral)
• Reading Outcomes (behavioral)
• Static Visual Acuity (behavioral)

Sponsor: Father Flanagan's Boys' Home · Participants: 90 · Started: Jun 6, 2022

Contact the study team

• Kristen L Janky, PhD · Phone: 15313556535
• Jessie N Patterson, PhD · Phone: 15313556333

Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT05414903

Locations in the U.S.

Conditions

• Sensorineural Hearing Loss

From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Oct 2, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.