Assessing and Addressing Behaviors in Children With Hearing Loss

"The Family Check Up is an evidence-based Behavioral Parenting Training (BPT) program focused on harnessing parents' motivation to change and skills training.~Intervention parents receive the initial assessment session followed by 3 Family Check-up Sessions within one month of baseline assessment followed by a post-intervention assessment. All sessions will be delivered in the patients' usual hearing clinics and will last between 60 and 90 minutes. One month post-intervention, participants will complete post-test measures repeating baseline measures, plus acceptability ratings of intervention."

"The Behavioral Placebo sessions will consist of presentations of information about healthy lifestyles.~Parents in the control group will receive an initial assessment session followed by three behavioral placebo sessions followed by a post-placebo-intervention assessment. All sessions will be delivered in the patients' usual hearing clinics and will last between 60 and 90 minutes. One month post-intervention, participants will complete post-test measures repeating baseline measures, plus acceptability ratings of intervention."