Combined Oral Motor Stimulation and Language on Preterm Infant Feeding

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Conditions studied: Language Delay, Language Development, Feeding; Difficult, Newborn, Mother-Infant Interaction, Maternal Behavior

In brief

This is a randomized controlled trial to study an oromotor stimulation in combination with a reading curriculum in the NICU among preterm infants using oral muscle exercises, Language Environment Analysis (LENA) recordings, linguistic feedback, and a language curriculum to improve the neonatal inpatient oral feeding and language outcomes for preterm infants.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05861531

Run by

Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island

People needed

124

Starts

2025-07-01

Expected to finish

2030-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2025-09-17

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• 23-30 weeks
• English and Spanish speaking

You may not qualify if…

• Major congenital anomalies
• Surgical necrotizing enterocolitis
• Non-English and Non-Spanish speaking

Where it is running

• Women & Infants NICU — Providence, Rhode Island, United States (enrolling)

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