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August 7, 2026
When people think about preparing children for school, they often picture flashcards, alphabet songs, and early literacy activities....
August 7, 2026
For parents of babies and toddlers, supporting early brain development does not have to mean adding another complicated task to an already crowded day....
July 14, 2026
The Lena Grow program, which collects data on preschooler talk and trains teachers to increase conversations, has been linked to higher reading scores....
June 30, 2026
Can results seen in Independence County be replicated at scale?...
April 29, 2026
Hundreds of preschools in Florida have adopted the LENA Grow program, developed by a nonprofit in Colorado with the mission to “transform children’s lives through early talk.”...
March 5, 2026
LENA Start classes will launch virtually in Sioux County, Iowa in January 2021....
September 4, 2025
The College of Education and Health Professions' Early Care and Education Projects was awarded $408,000 from the Walton Family Foundation to support the expansion of tech-based "talk" technology, LENA....
September 4, 2025
UNK and the Buffett Early Childhood Institute are partnering with the Nebraska Head Start Association and seven Head Start programs across the state, including: Community Action Partnership of Mid-Nebraska and Western Nebraska,...
August 11, 2025
What if parents and caregivers had access to objective feedback about their home language environment? These questions are central to a study now underway at Cleveland Clinic Children's....
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