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

Who can join

1 Day – 2 Years · All sexes

Inclusion Criteria for Participants:

* 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

Exclusion Criteria for Participants:

* 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

Inclusion Criteria for Clinics:

* 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

About the study

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.

What is being tested

• Patients in Talk With Me Baby Clinics (behavioral)
• Patients in Care-As-Usual Clinics (behavioral)

Sponsor: University of Kansas Medical Center · Participants: 400 · Started: Feb 5, 2026

Contact the study team

• Brenda J Salley, PhD · Phone: 913-945-7944

Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT07132411

Locations in the U.S.

From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 30, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.