Early Cochlear Implant Use

NYU Langone Health

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Cochlear Implant Users

Treatments: Other: Take home tests

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT07114744

24-01603

K99DC021727 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This observational study will examine newly activated cochlear implant users and determine whether their abilities to discern simple sounds change and relate to improved speech perception. Take-home computers and test-equipment will be sent home, and subjects will complete approximately 25 test sessions over the first 3 months of cochlea implant use. Then, subjects will be tested 3 more times in the laboratory until 1 year-post activation. The primary objective is to determine and quantify how sounds change and speech perception improves over the course of early cochlear implant use.

Enrollment: 25 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Postlingually deaf cochlear implant users
2. severe or profound hearing loss
3. who do not have other diagnoses communicative or cognitive disorders.
4. Test population: no prior experience with cochlear implants (recruitment happens prior to cochlear implantation).
5. Control population: subjects who have used the same stimulation strategy since initial stimulation, who note no continuing improvements or changes with their devices with respect to speech comprehension.

Exclusion criteria

1. Diagnosed cognitive or communicative disorders (other than deafness)
2. Below 18 years of age
3. Above the age of 85 years old.

Trial design

25 participants in 2 patient groups

Newly Implanted Users

Description:

Participants have no prior experience with cochlear implants (recruitment happens prior to cochlear implantation) will complete at home testing (\~25 sessions) over \~3 months of implant use.

Treatment:

Other: Take home tests

Experienced Cochlear Implant Users

Description:

Participants who have used the same stimulation strategy since initial stimulation will complete at home testing (\~25 sessions) over \~3 months of implant use.

Treatment:

Other: Take home tests