We're on a mission to transform children's lives through early talk.
As a growing nonprofit serving our youngest children, we need your support to make the biggest impact possible.
Meet our LENA leadership team and board of directors.
Our Community Advisory Board brings together a coalition of leaders and thinkers across the early childhood community to inform key strategic decisions at LENA.
Learn more about working at LENA and see our current openings.
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Learn about our transformational hardware and software suite that measures interactions.
LENA takes two paths to improving outcomes for children from birth to five: LENA Grow professional development and LENA SP.
Make every interaction count in early childhood education.
Gain early language insights in research and clinical applications.
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Explore hundreds of stories, educational tools, plus our library of recorded webinars and research reports.
LENA is built on research — our programs, resources, and advocacy. Explore our research efforts and outcomes here.
A searchable database of more than 200 peer-reviewed studies involving LENA.
LENA Grow improves outcomes, and we have the evaluation data to prove it. Learn how LENA affects everything from literacy skills to teacher retention.
A child's first five years are vital for building literacy skills. Conversational turns make a big impact.
Quality adult-child interactions are the heartbeat of early devleopment. Learn how, and why, they're so important to child outcomes.
Learn what matters in preparing children for school success, and how quality interactions boost kindergarten readiness.
Children develop the foundation for social skills before kindergarten. Conversational turns are a huge part of that growth.
Language is the foundation for all learning. Responsive interactions play a key role in supporting language development.
Supporting our teachers is vital for improving child outcomes, maintaining program quality, and so much more.
