Clinical trials: Sign Language
Nursing Home Residents
Feasibility of Risk Sign Displays to Prevent Falls, Dehydration and Pulmonary Aspiration in Nursing Homes
BACKGROUND: Prior research has shown a relationship between dehydration, falls and pulmonary aspiration among older adults in nursing and health care facilities, which contributes to its loss of independence and quality-of-life.
- Trial name
- NCT03123601
- Testing
- Risk sign displays
- Where
- Portugal
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- Campus Neurológico Sénior
Deafness
Word Learning in Deaf Children Using Eye-tracking and Behavioral Measures
Mutual exclusivity is a word learning constraint in which the learner assumes that a given word refers to only one category of objects.
- Trial name
- NCT05993832
- Testing
- input cue
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 48 people
- Sponsor
- Boston University Charles River Campus
Sign Language Skills, Teacher Practice
Strategic and Interactive Signing Instruction Experiment
This RCT study involves teachers divided into an experimental group and a control group. Teachers in the experimental group will receive SISI training to support the sign language development of deaf children, while those in the…
- Trial name
- NCT06729164
- Testing
- Strategic and Interactive Signing Instruction, Business-As-Usual Instruction
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 150 people
- Sponsor
- The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Language Development
Single Case Research Design: Deaf Children's Language Outcomes
Eight deaf children in kindergarten to 3rd grade classes will be randomly selected for single case research. Their language skills will be monitored and assessed daily.
- Trial name
- NCT06722261
- Testing
- Strategic and Interactive Signing Instruction
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 8 people
- Sponsor
- The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Language Difficulties in British Sign Language
Language Therapy in British Sign Language
In the United Kingdom, the language of the Deaf community is British Sign Language (BSL). A small proportion of Deaf young people who use BSL as their first or dominant language have specific language difficulties and would…
- Trial name
- NCT02579668
- Testing
- Language Therapy
- Volunteers
- 29 people
- Sponsor
- University College, London
Dental Anxiety
Virtual Reality Glasses Integrated With Sign Language on Dental Anxiety Among Children With Hearing Impairment During Pulpotomy Procedure
To evaluate the impact of using virtual reality glasses using sign language as a distraction method to reduce the dental anxiety in moderate to severe hearing-impaired children compared to the conventional behavior management…
- Trial name
- NCT06153823
- Testing
- virtual reality glasses, Tell Show and Do
- Where
- Egypt
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- Hams Hamed Abdelrahman
Teaching Behaviors, Sign Language Skills
Strategic and Interactive Signing Instruction
Strategic and interactive approaches driven by sociocultural, cognitive, and language theories have accumulated a large body of evidence documenting improvements in more complex oral and written language skills.
- Trial name
- SISI (NCT06667102)
- Testing
- Strategic and Interactive Signing Instruction
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 150 people
- Sponsor
- The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Brain Mapping, Deafness
Areas of Brain Responsible for Understanding American Sign Language
The human brain is made up of two halves called hemispheres. Each half of the brain is responsible for processing different kinds of information.
- Conditions
- Brain Mapping, Deafness, Healthy
- Trial name
- NCT00001782
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Cleft Palate Children
Effect of Infant Sign Training on Speech-language Development
Children born with a cleft lip and palate (CLP) are known to be at risk for speech-language disorders that impact academic and social emotional growth.
- Trial name
- NCT06143254
- Testing
- Infant sign training, Verbal training
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Ghent
Hearing Impairment, Deafness
Extended Reality Vocational Training for Hearing Impaired
This study examines the efficacy of an interactive, extended reality (XR)-based virtual training environment-specifically utilizing 360-degree virtual reality (360-VR) interactive simulations-against conventional vocational…
- Trial name
- NCT07639346
- Testing
- Interactive 360-degree Virtual Reality Vocational Training
- Where
- Egypt
- Volunteers
- 48 people
- Sponsor
- King Salman Center for Disability Research
Sign Language Skills
Pre- and Post- Descriptive Data of Language Outcomes in Deaf Children
Deaf children between ages of 4-10 will provide pre and post data by responding to three prompts in sign language and written language at the beginning and end of a year.
- Trial name
- NCT06724523
- Testing
- Business-as-usual instruction
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 160 people
- Sponsor
- The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Deafness, Hearing Loss
Family ASL: Longitudinal Study of Deaf Children and Hearing Parents Who Receive Services to Support the Learning of ASL
This study examines the development of American Sign Language by deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children and their parents.
- Trial name
- FASL (NCT04988451)
- Testing
- ASL Services
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- University of Connecticut