Characterizing the Impact of Hearing Loss on Cognitive and Neural Function in Children and Adolescents
This project, which is a collaboration between the CASI Lab, the Audibility, Perception and Cognition Lab at Boys Town National Research Hospital and the Pediatric Audiology Lab at the University of Iowa, seeks to provide new data on the impact of hearing loss and hearing aid measures on cognitive, language and neural function in children ages 7-15.
We are currently enrolling children with hearing loss (7-15 years old) to undergo functional and structural brain imaging, as well as tests of auditory, cognitive and language function. We hope that data from this study will shed light on what combination of factors puts some children with hearing loss at risk for learning delays and what we can do to modify those factors.
Participate
- Who: children with bilateral hearing loss
- Age: between 7 and 15 years old
- Time: 3-4 visits of 1-3 hours each
- Compensation: $50 per visit at the lab, $20 at the audiology visit, $170 total
- Additional information: for participants traveling from over 50 miles away from Boys Town, we will compensate for your mileage and other potential expenses, please reach out to us for more information
Contact
For more information, call or text (402) 249-9503 (cell), call (531) 355-8937 (landline), or email casi.lab@boystown.org.
