ListenFuture

Consortium ListenFuture, a nation-wide multidisciplinary project, brings new knowledge on complex associations between speech perception, listening, cognition, language, literacy, psychosocial wellbeing and school burnout in deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) and typically hearing (TH) adolescents. Earlier findings indicate that hearing loss poses a risk to age-appropriate skills and good psychosocial wellbeing. We use behavioral methods and questionnaires to study different performance domains. By leveraging sophisticated machine learning algorithms, we anticipate gaining insights into the associations among different performance domains in a language with rich inflectional morphology and a transparent orthography. We expect our project to have a broad societal impact on DHH adolescents, healthcare providers, schools, and other stakeholders. Consortium ListenFuture is led by Research Unit of Logopedics, University of Oulu, and Speech and Language Pathology, Åbo Akademi University.

2026

2030