The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Tackling Acquisition of Language in Kids (TALK) initiative seeks to support activities to better understand early language learning and delay. Late talking, also known as late language emergence, is diagnosed when a child, usually over the age of 18 months, is not meeting expressive language milestones. Approximately 10% to 20% of children receive this diagnosis. Children may be at higher risk for late talking for a variety of reasons including, but not limited to, premature birth, exposure to maltreatment or trauma, and intellectual and developmental disorders; and yet other children present as late talkers for no other known reason and with no other symptoms.?NIH TALK intends to publish a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) to solicit applications for research projects that aim to better understand the information and practice needs of caregivers, professionals, and other invested parties who support late talking children and to determine whether those needs are being effectively met. Community engaged research combined with rigorous qualitative research and diverse teams is needed to enrich our understanding of how to get state-of-the-science information and practice to those who need it most to guide decisions about late talking children.??This Notice of Intent to Publish (NOTIP) is being provided to allow potential applicants time to develop meaningful partnerships that will contribute to the NOFOs requirements for community engagement, qualitative research partnerships, and Plan for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives (PEDP). The NOFO is expected to be published in fall 2023 with an expected application due date in winter 2024. The NOFO will use the R21 activity code. Details of the planned NOFO are provided below.