Project ASPIRE Efficacy Pilot: Achieving Superior Parental Involvement for Rehabilitative Excellence

Throughout the study, parents will complete 16 total LENA recordings. The feedback report will include information on the parent's previous LENA recording(s), including the Adult Word Count (AWC), Conversational Turns (CTC), and TV Time (TVT). Parents in the treatment group will receive feedback reports for the baseline and 10 weekly recordings. Feedback reports will not be offered for the follow-up recordings

Treatment group parents will receive 10 weekly home visit sessions (e.g. the ASPIRE Program) with an interventionist during which time they will review multimedia education modules. The sessions include feedback report review, module discussion, video modeling, and goal setting activities. The education modules provide parents with information on supporting the development of listening and spoken language for children with hearing loss.

The EI-as-usual condition will parallel the treatment condition. Families in the EI-as-usual condition will continue to receive their usual therapy. They will not participate in Project ASPIRE home visits or receive feedback on their recordings. Families in this group will complete the same assessments as the families in the treatment group.