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Widely validated technology. Breakthrough insights.

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Unparalleled language environment data

LENA SP delivers a richly detailed picture of a child’s language environment — for researchers, SLPs, and others who need detailed, scientifically reliable speech-language measurements of children aged 2 to 48 months.

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Powered by the LENA System™

The LENA System is a hardware and software suite – and the world’s only validated means of automating data collection on young children’s naturalistic language environments. The LENA device captures one full day of language at a time, while the software system automatically analyzes and segments audio data. Flexible uploading and processing via a secure cloud-based service simplifies logistics of working with multiple children and sites and provides secure access from anywhere, 24/7.

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Comprehensive Reports

Sophisticated algorithms turn audio into data with a high degree of comparability to manual transcription.

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LENA Online

Manage program data through LENA Online for scalability, access, and outcome-tracking. Plus, resources for families, available in Spanish and English.

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Optional Audio Storage

Audio can be stored locally, with data accessible from any location or device through a secure cloud server.

LENA SP for Research Applications

Researchers have used LENA SP to make important contributions in the fields of language development, early literacy, brain science, deaf and hard of hearing studies, Autism Spectrum Disorder research, and more.

LENA SP for Clinical Applications

For speech-language pathologists and other clinicians, LENA SP is an innovative way to enhance early language interventions. 

"The problem in analyzing early vocal behavior is the sheer variability in what babies do from moment to moment. … Without having vast amounts of data, which we never had before LENA came along, we were unable to appreciate the nature of that variability — how much of it is specifically related to stages of speech development and how much of it is just noise."
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Gordon Ramsay– Director of the Spoken Communication Laboratory at the Marcus Autism Center 
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What’s possible with LENA SP?

LENA SP allows users to access data on many aspects of a child’s language environment, including the number of conversational turns, times of the day when the child was exposed to adult speech, and the number of child vocalizations. High-quality audio files underlying the reports are available to perform transcription, language samples, and spectral analysis. 

When it comes to scalability, access, and outcome-tracking, LENA Online makes data and program management easy.

Included with LENA SP is the LENA Developmental Snapshot, a validated 52-item questionnaire completed by caregivers. The Snapshot measures a child’s expressive and receptive language development over time. 

Included with LENA SP is the LENA Developmental Snapshot, a validated 52-item questionnaire completed by caregivers. The Snapshot measures a child’s expressive and receptive language development over time. 

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The measures of adult words and conversational turns are kind of abstract, and they’re hard to quantify unless you actually have something doing the math for you. Parents are pretty excited that there’s something that can give them this type of information — they thought it wasn’t possible to know.
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– Kayley MayerThe COMPASS Project coordinator at Sound Start Babies
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David Streibig
Manager, Growth Operations 
davidstreibig@lena.org

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