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Communication for Children with Hearing Impairment to optimise Language Development

Project description

Boosting language development for hearing impaired children

Despite advancements in early detection, hearing impaired children show significant delays in language development and speech. Existing plans fail to prepare those children for academic achievement and social participation. The EU-funded Comm4CHILD project aims to optimise the communicative skills and social inclusion of children with hearing impairment. The project will focus on mapping the factors underlying heterogeneity, advancing the understanding of the predictors for linguistic communicative skills, and ultimately, developing new intervention methods. The project aims to herald the start of paediatric hearing care entrepreneurship with its collaboration comprising academic, industrial, clinical, and community-based partners.

Objective

The World Health Assembly adopted a 2017 resolution recognising Hearing Impairment (HI) as a priority worldwide health issue. Children with HI present significant risks for language acquisition, educational achievement, socio-emotional development, and well-being. Current intervention plans fail to prepare those children for academic achievement and social participation in contemporary society where the diversity of their needs is increasing. Comm4CHILD is a consortium implementing an innovative approach for optimising the communicative skills and social inclusion of children with HI. Comm4CHILD addresses the large inter-individual heterogeneity in brain plasticity, cognitive resources, and linguistic abilities, and takes full advantage of this heterogeneity to support efficient communicative skills in children with HI. A group of 15 ESRs will be trained in research and intervention in a cross-sectoral way. ESRs individual research projects are conceptualized within three focus areas or work packages: biology (i.e. anatomical variations of the cochlea and cerebral functional reorganisation), cognition (i.e. working memory, multimodal integration in communication), and language (i.e. inter-individual differences in speech intelligibility and spelling ability). The work of the ESRs will (1) enhance mapping of the factors underlying heterogeneity, (2) advance the understanding of the predictors of linguistic communicative skills, and (3) develop new intervention methods. The ESRs will become the “paediatric hearing care entrepreneurs” of the future, thanks to the collaborations between academic, industrial, clinical, and community-based partners. The output of this unique consortium is expected to have an impact across all aspects of HI children's everyday life. Specifically, Comm4CHILD will provide a significantly improved understanding of communicative and social skills that will underpin the development of innovative future treatment and rehabilitation measures.

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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019

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UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES
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€ 512 640,00
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AVENUE FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT 50
1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
Belgium

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Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/ Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Arr. de Bruxelles-Capitale/Arr. Brussel-Hoofdstad
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Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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€ 512 640,00

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