Talk With Me Baby: Leveraging Well-Child Care to Enhance the Early Home Language Environment
University of Kansas Medical Center
400 participants
Feb 5, 2026
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
Language-rich interactions with a parent or caregiver can serve as a protective factor for young children, by supporting their language development and other positive long-term outcomes, but existing interventions have not had the necessary reach to families who need this information the most. This study utilizes the primary care setting as a low cost, scalable way to deliver language promotion intervention. Specifically, we will test the effectiveness and explore implementation of language promotion intervention (Talk With Me Baby) that embeds within anticipatory guidance during pediatric well-child care to boost early language development and optimize health, academic, and economic outcomes.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria8
- 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 Criteria3
- 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
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Interventions
Parent-child participants in TWMB clinics will attend their regular WCC visits (scheduled per routine clinic processes) following the AAP Periodicity Schedule.
Parent-child participants in Care-As-Usual clinics will attend their regular WCC visits (scheduled per routine clinic processes) following the AAP Periodicity Schedule. Measures will be completed at five time points.
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NCT07132411