A Language Intervention Study of Preterm Infants

Status unconfirmed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Language Development, Language Delay, Mother-Infant Interaction, Maternal Behavior

In brief

This is a randomized controlled trial to study a reading intervention in the NICU among preterm infants using LENA (Language Environment Analysis) recordings, linguistic feedback, and a language curriculum to improve the neonatal inpatient language environment and language outcomes for preterm infants.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03688386

Run by

Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island

People needed

67

Starts

2018-12-04

Expected to finish

2021-06-30

Last updated by the study team

2020-10-08

Who can join

Age: 0 and older, up to 1. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 21-31 week infants, medically stable infants, English speaking mothers over 18 years old

You may not qualify if…

• Intubated or medically unstable, major congenital anomalies, non English speaking

Where it is running

• Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island — Providence, Rhode Island, United States

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