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

NCT06223152 | Suspended

• 1 other identifier: IRSA-Triangle Wallonie
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 10
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

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

Keywords

deaf children; communication; language parental support

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• Communication between parent and child

  An episode of parent-child interactions in a play situation will be filmed before and after the intervention (pre- and post-test) in order to assess parents' communicative skills (receptivity, responsiveness, language support strategies, etc.). Fifteen minutes of free face-to-face play with a common material (Fischer Price's farm) will be recorded to provide a sample of parent-child interaction in a natural situation. The filmed interactions will be coded qualitatively via coding of verbal, paraverbal, and non-verbal exchanges that will be done using an analysis/observation grid created based on a grouping of elements from different existing grids (Adams, Gaile, Freed \& Lockton, 2011; Ducerf, 2013; Prutting \& Kirchner, 1987, Sylvestre, A. et al, 2019).

  troughout the entire study, an average of 40 months

• Child's language development

  Questionnaire estimating the child's language development French Inventory of Communication Development (Kern, Langue, Zesigner, \& Bovet, 2010)

  troughout the entire study, an average of 40 months

• Questionnaires assessing the feeling of parental competence

  Global Scale of Sense of Parental Competence (GSSPC) (Meunier \& Roskam, 2009) Adaptation of the SPISE-R, Scale of Parental Involvement and Self-Efficacy, revised (DesJardin, 2020)

  troughout the entire study, an average of 40 months

Study Arms (1)

deaf children and parents

EXPERIMENTAL

Other: parental support

Interventions

parental support OTHER

parental support

deaf children and parents

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Months - 4 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• deaf children and parents
• months - 4 years

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Université Catholique de Louvain: lead

Study Sites (1)

Bragard

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Communication

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 20, 2022
• First Posted: January 25, 2024
• Study Start: October 1, 2021
• Primary Completion: December 31, 2022
• Study Completion: December 31, 2025
• Last Updated: May 15, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-05

Locations

BE (1)