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Thirty Million Words Project: A Feasibility Trial

NCT01754077 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2013-09-05

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Summary

The purpose of the proposed research is to evaluate the Thirty Million Words (TMW) Intervention through a randomized, controlled pilot study. The primary goal of the intervention is to enrich the early language learning environment of children from low-socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds by targeting parent skills that relate to adult word input and conversational turn taking. The investigators hypothesize that receiving the TMW intervention will result in changes in parent behaviors.

Conditions

  • Parental Language Behaviors

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

LENA Linguistic Feedback Reports

LENA feedback reports show hourly/daily estimates for AWC/CTC and TV/electronic media. The feedback reports will include data obtained from LENA home audio recordings that the families complete. Feedback reports are only given to parents for 8 weekly recordings. The parent does not receive a feedback report for the baseline recordings or the follow-up recordings.

BEHAVIORAL

Home Visiting Educational Session

A research assistant visited the homes of the participants to discuss strategies, skills, and barriers related to enriching children's language environments. The visits included a multi-media educational module, video modeling exercise, goal setting, and linguistic feedback report review. There were 8 weekly home visits in the intervention program.

BEHAVIORAL

Childhood Nutrition Education

The childhood nutrition education intervention is a brief home-visiting intervention during which parents receive information on nutrition from a research assistant. The intervention mirrored the experimental group's educational intervention and decreased the likelihood of differences between groups being the result of attentional effects. This intervention is received by the control group.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Chicago

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Dana L Suskind, MD · University of Chicago

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
17 Months
Max Age
36 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-09-30
Primary Completion
2012-09-30
Completion
2012-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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