Combined Oral Motor Stimulation and Language on Preterm Infant Feeding
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 an
| Condition(s) | Language Delay, Language Development, Feeding; Difficult, Newborn, Mother-Infant Interaction, Maternal Behavior |
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| Status | Recruiting |
| Phase | NA |
| Study type | Interventional |
| Summary | 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. |
| Who can participate | Inclusion Criteria: * 23-30 weeks * English and Spanish speaking Exclusion Criteria: * Major congenital anomalies * Surgical necrotizing enterocolitis * Non-English and Non-Spanish speaking |
| Ages | 23 Weeks to 30 Weeks |
| Sex | All |
| Accepts healthy volunteers | Yes |
| Lead sponsor | Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island |
| Locations | Providence, Rhode Island, United States |
| Start date | 2025-07-01 |
| NCT ID | NCT05861531 |
| Official listing | https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05861531 |