Education and Training
Listening to Mom in the NICU: Neural, Clinical and Language Outcomes
The purpose of this study is to examine whether playing recordings of a mother's voice to her infant while in the hospital nursery is an effective treatment for promoting healthy brain and language development in infants born preterm.
Stanford is currently not accepting patients for this trial.
Intervention(s):
- behavioral: Language Treatment
- behavioral: Control Treatment
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Infants born preterm at Stanford Children's Hospital between 27 0/7 - 31 6/7 weeks
gestational age
Exclusion Criteria:
- Congenital anomalies
- Recognizable malformation syndromes
- Active seizure disorders
- History of Central Nervous System infections
- Hydrocephalus
- Major sensori-neural hearing loss
- Likelihood to be transferred from NICU to alternate care facility or home environment
prior to 36 weeks PMA
- Intraventricular Hemorrhage Grades III-IV
- Cystic periventricular leukomalacia (PVL)
- Surgical treatment for necrotizing enterocolitis
- Small for gestational age (SGA) <3 percentile and/or Intra-uterine growth restriction
(IUGR) no head sparing
- Twin-to-twin transfusions
Ages Eligible for Study
24 Weeks - 31 Weeks
Genders Eligible for Study
All
Not currently accepting new patients for this trial
Contact Information
Stanford University
School of Medicine
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford,
CA
94305
Katherine E Travis, PhD
650-498-7690
Not Recruiting