About this trial
This study aims to investigate whether lip reading rehabilitation improves viseme recognition in individuals with hearing impairments who use hearing aids.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Patient aged 18 or older
Affiliated with a social security system
Moderate to severe bilateral post-lingual hearing loss, fitted with hearing aids for more than 6 months
Wearing hearing aids for a minimum of 8 hours/day on average over the past month
Disqualifiers
Patient who has already undergone speech therapy rehabilitation as part of their hearing loss treatment
Diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease or history of brain injury (traumatic brain injury, stroke, tumor, meningitis, etc.)
Uncorrected vision or visual impairment affecting lip reading (e.g. AMD, glaucoma, unoperated cataract, etc.)
Presence of severe tinnitus (score > 56) on the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) questionnaire
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Speechreading training
Treatment groups
Sponsors and collaborators
Institut Pasteur
Lead sponsor
IHU reConnect
Collaborator