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

Rana ElShafaei

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dyslexia; Central Auditory Processing Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Arabic computer based auditory traing program(CBAT); Behavioral: arabic version of differential processing training program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04708899

00018699 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

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).

Full 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.

Enrollment: 52 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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52 participants in 2 patient groups

Cases

Active Comparator group

Description:

cases will receive the proposed program(the arabic version of differential processing training program)

Treatment:

Behavioral: arabic version of differential processing training program

control

Active Comparator group

Description:

controls will receive the computer based auditory training program (CBAT)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Arabic computer based auditory traing program(CBAT)