Reinoso-Castillo, Anghela
Ramzan, Memoona
Carrera-Gonzalez, Andrea
Rivas-Iglesias, Christian
Montufar, Stefanny
Vinueza-Gavilanes, Rodrigo
Smith, Carson
Llamos-Paneque, Arianne
Tekin, Mustafa
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Article History
Received: 11 July 2025
Accepted: 2 January 2026
First Online: 10 January 2026
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board at the University of Miami, USA, and the Bioethics Committee from Hospital de Especialidades de las Fuerzas Armadas No.1 de Quito-Ecuador (HE FF.AA No.1) (Ecuador). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.