What We Do

Rich language environments, responsive caregivers, and adult-child exchanges are critical to building children’s brains. Interventions that strengthen parent and caregiver engagement around language development and tools that assess their efficacy are essential.

We use data to continuously improve and deliver community-wide interventions and other evidence-based tools to promote the healthy cognitive and language development of all children. To be effective at scale, we use feedback cycles to hone and continually test and refine our work.

TMW interventions share the goal of empowering parents and caregivers with knowledge and skills to develop their children’s intellectual and educational potential.

Developed for both English- and Spanish-speaking families, our evidence-based interventions translate emerging brain science into strategies parents and caregivers can use in everyday settings. Animation, parent-child videos, and behavioral nudges are used to support adult behavior change.

We use a web-based platform to implement our interventions across a city or community, meeting families at multiple touchpoints. All of our programs are designed to be embedded within existing health and education systems; each is tailored to a specific setting and phase of life.

TMW-Newborn
Video shared with parents postpartum, during Universal Newborn Hearing Screening;
TMW-Well Baby
Series of videos shared with parents during well-baby pediatrician visits at 1, 2, 4 and 6 months;
TMW-Home Visiting
Flagship, 12-module program implemented one-on-one in the home environment with video modeling and goal setting;
TMW-Early Childhood Educator
Online, 8-module professional development curriculum with telecoaching component being designed for early childhood educators in home- and center-based child care facilities;
TMW-Let’s Talk!
Strengths-based, skill building group sessions in development for use in a variety of settings;
Cog-X
Comprehensive Pre-K curriculum with Parent Academy component.

SPEAK^®

In the absence of any such tool in the field that measured parent and caregiver knowledge of early cognitive and language development, Dr. Suskind and her team developed the Survey of Parents’/Providers’ Expectations And Knowledge (SPEAK^®), an online, self-administered questionnaire created for both clinical and research settings. Integral to our evidence-based interventions, SPEAK^® is used to measure adult behavior change.

SPEAK^® is now available for wider use, in both English and Spanish. Researchers, clinical institutions and organizations across the country are using SPEAK^® in their research and practice to assess parent and provider expectations and knowledge about language development.

What We Do

Evidence-based Interventions + Tools

SPEAK®

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