3Ts-Newborn
Shared with parents on maternity wards during the Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (UNHS), 3Ts-Newborn is a one-time, self-administered intervention that significantly addresses the limitations of the current postpartum education and provides parents of newborns with helpful information and concrete strategies for promoting early cognitive and language development.
Research findings reveal that mothers who participated in the program significantly gained knowledge about infant brain, cognitive, and language development 1 day and 4-6 weeks after the intervention. The impact on knowledge gain was largest among high-SES and middle-SES English-speaking mothers, and moderate among low-SES Spanish-speaking mothers. Importantly, mothers of all SES/language learned strategies for fostering infant secure attachment and language acquisition from the intervention. Mothers who participated in the intervention were also more likely than others to recognize the importance of timely follow-up for infants who failed the UNHS.