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Our Research Study
The Children’s Auditory Perception Laboratory is currently recruiting children between the ages of 18 months to 6 years old for a research study to help us learn more about how children hear.
What to Expect
During the course of this study, your child will sit in a sound-proof booth with an examiner and will listen to sounds presented over a loudspeaker or over earphones. To find out what your child can hear, we will teach him/her to make a response to a certain sound signal. These responses will be play activities like putting a toy in a bucket or adding a block to a tower. We may use a mechanical toy whenever he/she responds to the sound. The signals will be presented in quiet and in various background sounds. The sounds we use are not loud. You will be able to sit inside the booth with your child or watch your child through an observation window. As part of this study, your child will also receive a middle ear screening at no cost to you. If at any time we discover any important hearing-related findings, we will report those findings to you and provide you with contact information for a complete hearing evaluation.
1-2 visits to the laboratory are required. Each visit lasts about one hour. You will receive $15/h and we will pay for your parking, if you drive to the lab.
Contact us at childhear@colorado.edu or call 303-735-6252 to learn more about our current research studies.
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Our Research Study
For children with developmental differences, audiologists often report that they have difficulty measuring behavioral hearing thresholds. The current lack of behavioral procedures that are effective for evaluating hearing in children with developmental differences is a significant public health problem, resulting in delayed diagnosis and difficulty fitting amplification in this population. The Children's Auditory Perception Laboratory is currently recruiting children between the ages of 18 months to 6 years old with normal hearing for a research study to determine the feasibility and reliability of measuring behavioral hearing thresholds in children with developmental differences with a play-based procedure.
We are looking for children who have one of the following diagnoses:
- A diagnosed delay that impacts at least one area of development: cognitive, motor, communication, or social and emotional.
- A diagnosis of Down syndrome.
- A diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder.
What to Expect
During the course of this study, your child will sit in a sound-proof room with an examiner and will listen to sounds presented over either a loudspeaker or headphones. The sounds are presented at safe and comfortable levels. To find out what your child can hear, we will teach your child to perform a game when the sound is heard – like push a large button or put a block in a bucket.Your child will receive a hearing screening at no cost to you. If at any time we discover any important hearing-related findings, we will report those findings to you.We will collect information to better understand your child’s developmental differences by asking you to fill out a questionnaire and having your child complete play-based tasks. All testing will be in our laboratory in the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) Building on the main Â鶹ӰԺ campus.
This study requires 1-3 visits that are each 1 hour in length. Your child will be paid at a rate of $20/hour (in cash) for participating in this study. We will pay the cost for you to park in the parking lot by our lab. If you travel more than 40 miles to the lab, your family will receive $25 (in cash) to offset your travel costs.
If you are interested or have any questions, please feel free to call or email. Contact us at childhear@colorado.edu or call 303-735-6252.
You can enter your information for current and future research studies .
Adults
The Children’s Auditory Perception Laboratory is currently recruiting adults between 18-30 years old for a research study to help us learn more about how children hear.
During the testing, you will sit in a sound-treated room and will listen to sounds presented over a speaker or through headphones. You will be asked to indicate when you hear sounds by selecting a picture on a computer monitor, raising your hand, or repeating speech. The sounds we use are not loud.
1-2 visits to the laboratory are required. Each visit lasts 1-2 hours. You will receive $10/h and we will pay for your parking, if you drive to the lab.
If you are interested please email childhear@colorado.edu or call 303-735-6252.