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Posts
- “1, 2, 3 Talk with Me”: One mother’s story of completing Virtual LENA Start
- “A soft landing spot, a happy place”: Celebrating early childhood educators
- “An eye-opening experience”: Survey shows overwhelming positivity for LENA Grow among teachers and coaches
- “I probably think about the program every day”: When professional development is more than just a program
- “Mae Mae’s House”: One teacher’s story behind an evaluation of LENA Grow in Milwaukee
- “Everyone has their niche, and my niche is little kids”: One teacher’s journey in cultivating her students’ voices
- 10 Tips for Family Engagement
- 2017: Year in Review
- 5 “Wows” and 5 “Worries” from LENA Conference 2017
- 5 steps to successful LENA Grow recruitment
- 5 ways to make data a part of your program success story (or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the data)
- 7 Ways Forward on the Paths to Opportunity
- A Message to Early Childhood Educators — We see you!
- A parent perspective on LENA’s new longitudinal study
- A renewed emphasis on adult-child interactions in Texas
- A teacher, a coach, and an administrator on LENA Grow’s impact: Webinar highlights
- Amplifying conversations, transforming early childhood
- Announcing new enhancements to LENA Grow: Easy, inclusive, equitable
- Atlanta Speech School uses LENA for families of hard of hearing children
- Australia’s LiLO study: Analysis of home language environments from birth to school
- Being culturally responsive to families during LENA Start classes and beyond
- Bridging research and practice in early childhood education: SproutFive’s independent evaluation of LENA Grow
- Bright Beginnings LENA Grow pilot shows significant change in the language environment of children experiencing homelessness
- Case Study: How Sound Start Babies uses LENA SP to support parents
- Case Study: Teen parent program adopts LENA Start to grow connections between clients, children
- Case study: Why three organizations pivoted to offer virtual LENA Start classes
- Celebrate Good Times, Come On: Virtual Ways to Acknowledge Your Families, Teachers, and Teams
- Celebrating AAPI Heritage: Building community and connecting to culture in Hawaiʻi
- Changing the conversation: How we’re thinking about building impact in early childhood
- Children show elevated language skills one year after LENA Start
- Clarke uses LENA technology to bridge home and school environments
- CLASS Scores Increase After Using LENA Grow at The Primary School
- Classroom interaction and teacher experience: Relationships between conversational turn rates and years of experience in child care
- Coaching for impact in Sarasota County: Increased TS GOLD® and CLASS® scores
- Colorado Home Intervention Program (CHIP) uses LENA SP to simplify program logistics statewide
- Conversational turns linked to literacy skills: LENA participants nearly twice as likely to be kindergarten-ready
- COVID-era infants vocalize less and experience fewer conversational turns, says LENA research team
- Developmental Snapshot analysis shows that LENA Start’s benefits endure for two years
- Dual language learners experience less teacher-child interaction in child care and preschool: New data analysis
- Dual language learners in early childhood education: Webinar highlights
- Early brain development in infants and toddlers: Six simple strategies
- Early childhood mental health, dual-language learners, the science of reading, and more: A look back at our most popular content of 2023
- Early Head Start centers in Tennessee use LENA programs to improve early literacy
- Early Head Start programs use LENA Home to improve language and literacy outcomes
- Early learning classrooms in Fort Worth ISD using LENA Grow increase CLASS® scores
- Early literacy and early talk: Webinar highlights featuring author Maya Smart
- Early pilot results show teacher approval, improvements in child language skills in classrooms using LENA Grow
- Engaging families in LENA Grow
- Engaging resilience: How responsive caregiving lays the foundation for children to thrive
- Equitable and inclusive classroom experiences: Your questions answered!
- Evidence-based professional development for early childhood educators: Webinar highlights
- Expanding PD hours for early childhood educators participating in LENA Grow
- Family child care provider used LENA Grow to connect with parents, children
- First Book Partnership Brings High-quality Books at Lower Cost
- First paper published linking conversational turns with brain structure
- Five best practices for parent recruitment and retention (virtually or in person)
- Five cities will replicate Providence Talks, offering LENA programs for parents and teachers citywide
- Five things to know about LENA and privacy
- For early childhood education, Women’s History Month must be more than a “Hallmark holiday”
- Fostering family engagement and early literacy at Pasco County Schools: Webinar highlights
- Four strategies one nonprofit uses to boost literacy citywide
- Frameworks for understanding effective family engagement
- From the archives: Conversations with adults boost child language development, study finds
- Georgia Department of Public Health uses community partnerships and Project LAUNCH funding to scale parent programming county-wide
- Harnessing the power of toddler talk for long-term child outcomes
- Highlights from a Qualitative Evaluation of LENA Grow in Hartford: Nine Takeaways
- Honoring Pioneers in Improving Early Language Development
- How coaches can help teachers take a deep dive into LENA data
- How Early Head Start/Head Start grantees use LENA Grow to meet performance standards during federal review
- How LENA Grow teaches a coach to be a better coach
- How researchers have adapted to continue using LENA SP during the pandemic
- How to build staff buy-in in early learning environments
- How to harness the untapped potential of family child care providers
- How to have a conversation with a baby even before they can talk (and how LENA measures it)
- How to make video calls more engaging for infants and toddlers
- Implementing statewide PD for ECE teachers in Mississippi: Questions from the webinar
- Improving early childhood through locally focused philanthropic partnerships
- Infant and parent brainwaves synchronize during playtime
- Infant and toddler CLASS assessment: Your questions answered!
- Initial longitudinal evaluation results: Huntsville children whose parents participated in LENA Start have stronger literacy skills two years later
- Inside Early Talk: Our point of greatest leverage for improving children’s futures
- Introducing LENA Home 2.0 – Easier to deliver and more accessible!
- It’s never too late for interactive talk! Your questions on conversational turns research answered.
- It’s Time to Shine a Light on Language Isolation in Infant and Toddler Classrooms
- Just call us LENA
- Justice starts at birth
- Kindergarten readiness, parent education, and conversational turns: A statistically significant correlation in a rural South Carolina school district
- Lakeshore® partnership offers materials to help early educators increase quality interactions in the classroom
- Launch Fund Grant Recipients 2020 – Welcome to our new partners!
- Launch Fund Grant Recipients 2020 Pt 2. – Welcome to our new partners!
- Learning to read (and write) starts earlier than you think!
- LENA Grow coach shares best practice
- LENA Grow goes statewide in Tennessee
- LENA Grow may help keep early educators in the profession, new evidence suggests
- LENA Grow updates are coming…So who’s behind the curtain?!
- LENA Grow: Lessons from our learning site
- LENA Launches Local “Learning Site” for LENA Grow
- LENA Programming Aligns with Head Start’s Parent, Family, and Community Engagement (PFCE) Framework
- LENA researchers’ work featured in new Netflix series
- LENA Start partners with school-readiness texting program to add continued support for parents after graduation
- LENA Start Reflections & Funding Announcement
- LENA’s role in “The Right to Read” documentary: A focus on preliteracy skills
- Let’s appreciate early childhood educators — truly, loudly, enthusiastically, and materially
- Let’s NOT stop talking about talk.
- Libraries serve as community catalysts to build pre-literacy skills
- Making a difference: We reached our goal to impact 10,000 children in 2019!
- Masked up and ready for conversational turns: Helpful hints to maximize interactions in early childhood classrooms
- Matching funds support launch of new LENA Start sites nationwide
- Meet Miss Vera
- Meet the new LENA Grow, redesigned for even greater impact!
- Mom credits pre-teen son’s success to increased interactive talk in early childhood
- Mom uses LENA technology to advocate for more robust school support for daughter who is hard of hearing
- New data analysis: One in five children in child care spends most of the day in language isolation
- New data reveals virtual LENA Start classes offer same benefits to families as in-person classes
- New meta-analysis confirms that LENA’s automated measures significantly predict child language outcomes
- New report from Escambia County on LENA Grow Shows CLASS® Gains
- New research links early vocabulary skills to teacher-child interaction in preschool classrooms
- New research says how much you talk with babies is linked to their IQ in adolescence
- New research sheds light on the importance of conversational turns
- New research strengthens link between adult-child conversation and brain structure, reading skills
- New study links conversational turns with increases in children’s verbal and nonverbal abilities using brain imaging and LENA technology
- Now is the time to support child care providers in building positive interactions
- Parent Profile: Kristen Rhodes finds community, concrete feedback in LENA Start program
- Parent Profile: Lily Ellison Shares how LENA Start Changed her Approach to Reading
- Parent Recruitment 101: A Q&A with Jennifer Calderon
- Parent recruitment for LENA Start and LENA Home: Recognizing and responding to barriers
- Parents as Teachers Affiliates Add an Early-talk Focus
- Parents gain confidence, skills, and awareness through LENA Start classes
- Parents on virtual LENA Start classes: “Now I know 10 families when I drop my kids off at school.”
- Postpartum depression and early talk: My experience
- Preliminary findings suggest LENA Grow accelerates language development
- Providence Talks Replication: A renewed commitment to quality child care in Virginia Beach
- Providence Talks Replication: Building city-wide impact one family at a time in Hartford
- Providence Talks Replication: From participant to program director in Detroit
- Providence Talks Replication: Sustaining growth and “working toward yes” in Birmingham
- Providence Talks replication: Your questions answered!
- Putting a bow on 2018 and looking forward to 2019
- Q & A with Dr. Dana Suskind
- Q & A with Elizabeth Szymanski: Supporting family child care providers with business services
- Q & A: How a philanthropic investment in LENA advanced the early childhood portfolio of the Overdeck Family Foundation
- Q & A: How autism researchers are using LENA technology for early detection and intervention
- Q&A with Charlie Wolfson: Investing in children’s futures by investing in early talk
- Q&A with Dr. Beate Peter: Researching early speech and language intervention for children with classic galactosemia
- Q&A with Dr. Fred Zimmerman
- Q&A with Dr. Jim Duggan: Why school districts should prioritize early childhood
- Q&A with Dr. Loretta Rudd: How University of Memphis is broadening their collective impact approach to scale early childhood programming
- Q&A with Dr. Reem Khamis-Dakwar: Empowering families to reclaim minority languages with LENA Start
- Q&A with economist Flávio Cunha
- Q&A with Elliot Haspel, author of “Crawling Behind: America’s Child Care Crisis and How to Fix It”
- Q&A with Emma Quigan: How COMET Auckland is using LENA with indigenous families in New Zealand
- Q&A with Kai-ama Hamer: A discussion of family engagement and parent recruitment
- Q&A with Katherine Bryan: Funding evidence-based programs to improve outcomes for children
- QRIS and interaction: Do quality rating systems reflect individual experience?
- Reflections honoring Black History Month
- Reflections of a former family child care provider
- Reflections on 2021: Data that motivate, stories that inspire
- Reflective feedback in parenting interventions: Coming back to the “Why”
- Research Roundup: Babies are real conversational partners
- Research Roundup: Brain Waves, Intelligence, and Voter Attitudes
- Research Roundup: How adult friendship, socioeconomic status, and screen time may affect developing brains
- Research Roundup: How parents can shape children’s early brain development through reading
- Research Roundup: How researchers are using LENA technology to make new discoveries
- Research Roundup: How researchers are using LENA technology to understand child development
- Research Roundup: How social influences shape a child’s development
- Research Roundup: How to reduce the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
- Research Roundup: Learning during the first few years of life
- Research Roundup: Long-term impacts of early childhood education
- Research Roundup: Maternal depression and paternal parentese in the context of COVID
- Research Roundup: New information on infant language acquisition
- Research Roundup: NICU interventions enhance interactive talk with premature babies
- Research Roundup: Supporting young children and caregivers during crisis
- Research Roundup: The Latest Findings on Reading
- Research shows links between LENA Grow participation and social-emotional growth
- Resources to help support your family and community during COVID-19
- Results from parent survey confirm LENA Start is building stronger families
- Rural school districts: Challenges, opportunities, and LENA
- Scaling a statewide early childhood quality initiative in Ohio
- School districts use LENA programs to improve kindergarten readiness, child outcomes
- School readiness team at Huntsville City Schools uses LENA Start to increase children’s kindergarten readiness
- Sequatchie Valley Head Start uses LENA Grow to meet performance standards for professional development
- Simple, timely resources to build resilience in child care through talk
- Some of our favorite books for the 0-5 year olds in your life!
- Sounding the alarm about young children’s language development: A look back at our most viewed content of 2022
- State leaders on sustaining and scaling quality initiatives in early childhood education: Five lessons learned
- State of Colorado helps FCC providers build confidence, self-esteem, and relationships with children with LENA Grow
- State of Georgia Adopts LENA Grow
- Study finds causal link between conversational turns and socioemotional development in babies
- Study finds that families who participate in LENA Start increased adult words, conversational turns, and child vocalizations
- Study from University of Minnesota finds LENA Start fits well into community infrastructure
- Survey results suggest LENA Grow improves educators’ professional outlook
- Survey results: How COVID-19 is impacting child care providers
- Talking with infants, structuring community partnerships, and more: A look back at our most popular content of 2021
- Teachers and coaches share their experiences with LENA Grow
- Teachers, children benefit from LENA Grow Pilot with Teaching Strategies
- Texas Children’s Hospital Becomes First Healthcare Organization To Launch LENA Start
- The positive impact of LENA Grow certification
- The power of conversational turns in early childhood education: Head Start is doing it right!
- The Power of Responsive Interactions in Supporting Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: Webinar highlights
- Thoughts on 15 years and the staying power of LENA
- Three moms share stories of their LENA Start experience
- Tips for organizing early education classrooms to increase conversational turns
- To improve quality in child care, Dallas nonprofit looks to LENA Grow with virtual coaching sessions
- To improve quality outcomes, Early Head Start program looks to LENA Grow for timely feedback
- Turning children’s books into conversation starters
- Two moms establish new parenting habits through LENA Start classes
- Understanding how to support early brain development: Four themes that emerged in 2019
- Universities use LENA to put early childhood research into action
- Urban library expands reach and impact through community partnerships
- Virginia Beach adapts to virtual programming to boost child outcomes, reduce caregiver stress
- Virginia Beach family increases two-generation, bilingual engagement with children through LENA Start
- Virtual LENA Start classes help parents and teachers to connect and collaborate
- Virtual retention: Strategies for keeping families engaged in a community program
- Webinar follow-up and reflections: Do COVID babies “talk” less?
- What’s new in LENA Start 3.0
- Why I joined LENA after 25 years in the public school system
- Why Pride is important to me
- Wisconsin health care company offers parenting classes as employee benefit
- With language and social-emotional delays on the rise, here’s one part of the solution
- With technology uptake, individual circumstance is everything
- Year in review: Looking back at progress in the midst of a pandemic