NCT06479278

Talk With Me Baby to Enhance the Early Home Language Environment

Talk With Me Baby: Leveraging Well-Child Care to Enhance the Early Home Language Environment for Rural and Underserved Children

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 66 (estimated)
• Sponsor: IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network · Network
• Sex: All
• Age: 0 Months – 9 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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: 1. Come to at least four well-child checkups 2. Receive the TWMB program from the provider during the checkups 3. Record their conversations with their infant before they receive the program and after they receive the program four times.

Conditions

• Language Development
• Speech
• Infant Development
• Infant Behavior
• Language, Child
• Language

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Talk with Me Baby	Primary care providers will embed Talk With Me Baby (TWMB) within standard-of-care Well-Child Care visits for children ≤36 months of age. Children will receive usual care plus a brief language-promotion intervention (TWMB) in up to 4 consecutive Well-Child Care visits during their 12-month period.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-02-03
• Primary completion: 2026-08-31
• Completion: 2026-08-31
• First posted: 2024-06-28
• Last updated: 2025-08-29

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States