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Talk With Me Baby to Enhance the Early Home Language Environment

IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network · with National Institutes of Health (NIH), University of Kansas · NCT06479278

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Key facts

Compensation
Not posted. Ask the study team before screening.
Who can join
Ages 0 mo–10 mo · All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Study type
Interventional · Not applicable
Target enrollment
66
US sites recruiting
1
Study start
February 3, 2025
Record last updated
August 29, 2025

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What the study is about

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if the Talk With Me Baby (TWMB) program improves the home-language environment for at-risk families with children ages two to six months when primary care providers deliver the program during well-child checkups. The main question it aims to answer is:

Will the TWMB program increase the time a caregiver talks to their infant?

Participants will

  • Come to at least four well-child checkups
  • Receive the TWMB program from the provider during the checkups
  • Record their conversations with their infant before they receive the program and after they receive the program four times.

Being studied: Talk with Me Baby

Conditions: Language Development; Speech; Infant Development; Infant Behavior; Language, Child; Language

Eligibility criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

For this study, each child-caregiver dyad will consist of:

  • A caregiver who will receive TWMB during routine WCC visits for their child at participating clinics, and
  • The child of the above caregiver for whom the WCC visits are conducted.

A potential caregiver participant must meet all the following inclusion criteria to enroll in the study:

  • Be the age of majority, or older, as defined by the state of residency.
  • Able to complete study measures in English.
  • Have the legal authority to consent to participate for themselves and to consent on behalf of their child.

To proceed to the follow-up portion of the study the caregiver (dyad) must have a LENA baseline assessment score that is ≤ 75th percentile compared to a child's age-referenced normative data.

A potential child participant must meet all the following inclusion criteria to be enrolled in the study:

  • Receive WCC at a participating clinic from a participating provider.
  • Be zero to nine months (+ 0-30 days) old at enrollment.
  • Was born at full term (> 37 weeks gestation).
  • Was born in a singleton birth (i.e., was the only child delivered during the birth).

Recruiting US locations

  • Kansas University Medical Center

    Kansas City, KS 66160

    Site contact: Brenda Salley, PhD · 913-945-7944 · bsalley@kumc.edu

Study contacts (from the official record)

  • Song Ounpraseuth, PhD · 501-686-7233 · STOunpraseuth@uams.edu
  • DeAnn E Hubberd, MA · 501-686-5547 · dehubberd@uams.edu
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