The Influence of Hearing Discrete Phonemes in Mother's Voice in the Infant's Natural Environment and With Natural Melody on Developing Phonetic Categories Between 4-10 Months Old

NCT01003041 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: 1010
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 50
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to record voice samples of infant's mothers, process in samples to a phonetic musical piece, play the phonetic musical piece to 4-10 month old infants, and then test the infants in a conditioned head turning test in lab, and to analyze the results.

Conditions

Healthy

Keywords

healthy normal infants

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Response by head-turning test to familiar and unfamiliar phonetic categories

  one year

Study Arms (1)

lifestyle counseling

in the future parents will be advised to expose their infants to phonetic sounds in order to develop their phonetic categories in the future

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 4 Months - 10 Months
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)
• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

normal newborn infants

You may qualify if:

• normal newborn infants
• males and females
• age 4 months to 10 months old

You may not qualify if:

• chronic illness
• hearing loss
• history of otitis media
• serious otitis media

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Maaynei Hayesha Medical Center: lead

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: CASE CROSSOVER
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 27, 2009
• First Posted: October 28, 2009
• Study Start: October 1, 2009
• Last Updated: October 28, 2009

Record last verified: 2009-10