Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Guidance Program for Parents of Deaf Children

NCT ID: NCT06223152

Last Updated: 2025-05-15

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: SUSPENDED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 10 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-10-01
• Study Completion Date: 2025-12-31

Brief Summary

The purpose of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness of a parent guidance program on (1) the parent's communication skills, (2) the parent's sense of competence and (3) the child's language development. Concretely, 11 guidance sessions will be offered to parents by alternating two group sessions (in a common place) and one family session (at home). These sessions will be given every week and will last approximately 2 hours. The sessions will focus on working on and learning adult attitudes conducive to the development of communication and language in the child. These sessions will be interactive through questions (wooclap), exchanges, video illustrations, role playing, etc. A practical application will be proposed in daily life with the help of the video-feedback technique during the home sessions, individually with the parent.

The effectiveness of this intervention will be evaluated via a pre- and post-test conducted in the families' homes. Episodes of parent-child interactions in a play situation will be filmed and coded in order to assess the parents' communication skills (receptivity, reactivity, language support strategies, etc.). The feeling of parental competence as well as the child's language will be estimated using parent questionnaires.

The investigators hypothesize that parent guidance sessions will have an effect on the communication skills of parents of deaf children and will indirectly improve their sense of parenting competence as well as the child's language development. This study will therefore offer avenues for adapting the support of families of deaf children.

Conditions

Deaf Nonspeaking, Not Elsewhere Classified

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

deaf children and parents

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

parental support

Intervention Type: OTHER

parental support

Interventions

parental support

parental support

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• deaf children and parents
• 18 months - 4 years

Exclusion Criteria

-

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Months
• Maximum Eligible Age: 4 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Université Catholique de Louvain

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

Bragard

Louvain-la-Neuve, , Belgium

Countries

Belgium

Other Identifiers

IRSA-Triangle Wallonie

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id