Brain Uptrain to Improve Learning and Development: A Randomized Clinical Trial
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Summary
The purpose of this study is to see if an early literacy and developmental program in addition to shared reading can increase developmental test scores at 24 months of age. All caregivers of infants in this study will receive shared reading training. Half of the caregivers will be trained in an additional coach-led caregiver-implemented early literacy and numeracy program. Information related to infant development will be collected from parent surveys, medical records, and questionnaires and assessments.
Description
This study will test the hypothesis that in term or late preterm infants who are discharged home from the newborn nursery, a coach-led caregiver-implemented early literacy and developmental program in addition to shared reading, compared with shared reading alone, will increase the Ages and Stages Questionnaire® score at 24 months. This will be a double blind randomized controlled trial with 1:1 parallel allocation using stratified permuted block design. Randomization will be stratified by gestational age (≥ 35 to \<38 weeks and ≥ 38 weeks). Randomization of twins and higher orders (when eligi…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 0–0 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria: inborn at UAB, delivered at more than 35 weeks' gestation, planned for discharge home after initial hospitalization. \- Exclusion Criteria: a major malformation, a known syndrome, admitted to the NICU, in DHR custody, enrolled in a competing study, and family's primary language is other than English or Spanish. \-
Interventions
- BehavioralCoach-led caregiver-implemented early literacy and developmental programming
Caregivers will receive training about child brain development in the first 3 years of life. The training will emphasize the areas of spoken words, physical education, pointer-finger concept, focus and label, reading lessons, and mathematics.
- BehavioralReach Out and Read Training
Reach Out and Read parent training
Location
- University of Alabama at BirminghamBirmingham, Alabama