Combined Oral Motor Stimulation and Language on Preterm Infant Feeding

ConditionsLanguage Delay Language Development Feeding; Difficult, Newborn Mother-Infant Interaction Maternal Behavior

Trial statusRecruiting

Trial phaseNot applicable

Trial typeInterventional

Biological sexAll

Age23-30

SponsorWomen and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island

About this trial

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.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

23-30 weeks

English and Spanish speaking

Disqualifiers

Major congenital anomalies

Surgical necrotizing enterocolitis

Non-English and Non-Spanish speaking

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

Oromotor stimulation
Reading curriculum
LENA recording
LENA linguistic feedback
No oromotor stimulation

Treatment groups

124 Participants

are divided into 3 treatment groups

Sponsors and collaborators

Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island

Lead sponsor

Source ClinicalTrials.gov