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Talk With Me Baby: Enhancing Early Language Development in Well-Child Care

This study, "Talk With Me Baby," is looking at how well a program called Talk With Me Baby (TWMB) works to help young children develop language skills. TWMB aims to improve how parents and caregivers talk with their babies during regular well-child check-ups. Researchers want to see if this approach, delivered in clinics, can boost a child's language development and lead to better health and academic outcomes later on. You might be able to join if your child is between 1 day and 2 years old, was born full-term, is a single birth, and speaks English or Spanish at home. The study will measure changes in how parents promote language and the child's total and receptive (understanding) language at different ages. The current status of this study is unclear.

Study design
This study plans to enroll 400 parent-child pairs. Some will receive the Talk With Me Baby intervention during their well-child visits, while others will receive usual care.
What's involved
Parent-child participants will attend their regular well-child care visits. Measures will be completed at five different times as the child grows.
Compensation
Not stated in the trial record.
Follow-up
The study will measure changes in parent language-promotion behavior until the child is 18 months old, and child language outcomes until the child is 24 months old.

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NCT07132411

Talk With Me Baby: Leveraging Well-Child Care to Enhance the Early Home Language Environment

Recruiting
NAAges 1–2InterventionalTreatment
University of Kansas Medical Center
~400 participants
Updated 2026-03-24 on ClinicalTrials.gov
What's tested:Patients in Talk With Me Baby ClinicsPatients in Care-As-Usual Clinics

At a glance

Recruiting sites
1 of 2 listed sites are recruiting right now
RecruitingSuspended, closed, or not yet open
What they're measuring
Change in parent language-promotion behavior
Measured over Child age 1, 6, 12, and 18 months old
+3 more outcomes measured

Conditions

Child Language
Language Delay
Developmental Milestones

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Where you'd take part

This study runs at 2 sites. They're the same protocol — you choose where, and that choice sets who your contact draft is addressed to.

  • Emory University

    Atlanta, Georgiastudy coordinator listed

    Not yet recruiting

  • University of Kansas Medical Center

    Kansas City, Kansasstudy coordinator listed

    Recruiting

Sites open and close at different times, so the status above is per site — it can differ from the study's overall status.

Study leadership

  • Brenda J Salley, PhD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · University of Kansas Medical Center

Who to contact

Brenda J Salley, PhD
[email protected]
913-945-7944
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Eligibility criteria

Inclusion

Child must be enrolled prior to attending their 2-month WCC visit, age 1 month (+/- 30 days)
Full term (\>=37 weeks gestation)
Singleton birth
Home language of English and/or Spanish
Child must receive WCC at a participating clinic
A primary care practice (family medicine or pediatric model) that delivers WCC for children from 0-36 months old
A minimum of 30% Medicaid/uninsured visits/year
A minimum of 300 unique 0 to 36-month-old patients/year

Exclusion

Child with a severe congenital disorder that would affect neurodevelopmental outcomes, or hearing impairment that could affect participation
Parent does not live with or spend \>=2 days/week with the child
Family does not plan to continue services at the clinic

What this trial measures

  • Change in parent language-promotion behaviorChild age 1, 6, 12, and 18 months old

    Change in parent language-promotion behavior (as measured by Language Environment Analysis \[LENA\] Conversational Turn Count) at each assessment time point (child age 1, 6, 12, and 18 months old) for parent-child dyads in TWMB clinics, compared to care-as-usual clinics.

  • Child total languageChild age 24 months old

    Child language (as measured by the Preschool Language Scale-5 \[PLS-5/PLS-5 Spanish\] for Total Language) at child age 24 months old for parent-child dyads in TWMB clinics, compared to care-as-usual clinics.

  • Child receptive languageChild age 24 months old

    Child receptive language (as measured by the Preschool Language Scale-5 \[PLS-5/PLS-5 Spanish\] for Receptive Language) at child age 24 months old for parent-child dyads in TWMB clinics, compared to care-as-usual clinics.

  • Child expressive languageChild age 24 months old

    Child expressive language (as measured by the Preschool Language Scale-5 \[PLS-5/PLS-5 Spanish\] for Expressive Language) at child age 24 months old for parent-child dyads in TWMB clinics, compared to care-as-usual clinics.