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August 7, 2017
By Kymberlee Fernandes

New technology aiding parents and toddlers to communicate

Auckland, New Zealand is implementing LENA technology in conjunction with local program Talking Matters to encourage more early talk between children and caretakers.

July 16, 2017
By Rehema Ellis

Providence Talks: This Nonprofit Is Giving Children a Start in Life

Providence Talks encourages “enhanced conversation,” where parents are asked to use complete sentences and elaborate using descriptive words when communicating with their child.

July 10, 2017
By Elizabeth Mann Levesque

The ‘word gap’ and 1 city’s plan to close it

Rhode Island’s Providence Talks is partnering with LENA to provide parents with resources to understand how they can improve their young child’s literacy.

May 10, 2017
By Noelle Swan

How to end the word gap? Cities invest big in baby talk.

Cities like Providence, Rhode Island, are investing in early childhood talk programs like LENA to decrease the talk gap between children.

May 7, 2016
By Beena Raghavendran

West metro program helps parents build babies’ and toddlers’ vocabularies

April 6, 2017
By Glen Moberg

LENA Early Childhood Development Research

February 17, 2017
By Lauran Neergaard

Talking with babies helps them bridge word gap

As talk is found to be increasingly important to the development of childhood linguistic and cognitive development, more communities are using programs like LENA to improve communication behaviors in families.

February 5, 2017
By Nora Young

Baby vest measures talk between parent and child

CBC Radio interviews Jill Gilkerson from LENA, explaining the importance of interactive talk between children and their caregivers.

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January 21, 2017
By Kate Gammon

Tech Can Make Your Conversations with Kids Way More Effective

Kate Gammon tells the story of LENA Start from a parent's perspective.

November 19, 2015
By Stephen J. Dubner

Does “Early Education” Come Way Too Late?

In our quest to reform ECE, we may be overlooking the learning that takes place at home.

July 8, 2015
By Carolina González

Techie Tools Teach Parents to Talk to Toddlers

Smartphones and other devices help parents teach and reach their little ones.

April 21, 2015
By Sarah D. Sparks

The Vocabulary Gap

Key to Vocabulary Gap Is Quality of Conversation, Not Dearth of Words.

January 12, 2015
By Margaret Talbot

The Talking Cure

Margaret Talbot takes a deep dive into the Providence Talks program and its use of LENA technology to measure talk.

October 14, 2014
By Tom Ackerman

Providence Talks Graduation

An Al Jazeera piece highlights the Providence Talks program and shows families on graduation day.

September 26, 2014
By Antonia Cereijido

Bridging the Word Gap

A radio piece on Latino USA highlights LENA technology, its use in the Thirty Million Words initiative, and the importance of speaking to young children in your native language.

July 21, 2014
By Maureen Kelleher

Using Digital Recording Devices to Encourage Talk with Children

An article in New America Ed Central featured LENA's technology and commentary from LENA's co-founder and chairman, Terry Paul.

July 11, 2014
By John Tulenko

Coaching parents on toddler talk to address low-income word gap

This PBS Newshour piece examines strategies being used to increase conversation in the homes of families who are part of the Providence Talks program, as well as the program's use of the LENA System.

April 18, 2014
By Euronews

Get them early, the key to educational success

A Euronews Learning World article and video examine various approaches to increasing early childhood learning around the world. LENA's language analysis technology is featured in the second segment as an important tool in Dr. Dana Suskind's 30 Million Words project.

April 1, 2014
By Lisa Hack

Voice as biomarker: Using vocalizations to screen for autism

A Contemporary Pediatrics article highlights the work of D. Kimbrough Oller, PhD and other researchers who are using child vocalizations as a measure to screen for autism spectrum disorder.

March 26, 2014
By Motoko Rich

Trying to Close a Knowledge Gap, Word by Word

A New York Times article and video on new programs that focus on the home environment of very young children and how the use of LENA's Digital Language Processor (DLP) technology can benefit these initiatives.

March 17, 2014
By Jennifer Ludden

Efforts To Close the Achievement Gap In Kids Start At Home

National Public Radio ran a story on the efforts to close the word and achievement gap in Providence, Rhode Island, using LENA with home visitation.

February 22, 2014
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In the Beginning was the Word

The Economist reported on the growing scientific evidence on the importance of parent talk and its implications for policy. LENA is noted as a tool to help close the gap.

February 3, 2014
By

City of Providence Launches “Providence Talks”

Providence, Rhode Island won Grand Prize in the 2012-2013 Bloomberg Philanthropies' “Mayors Challenge” competition with a proposal to use the LENA System for recording and reporting children's language environment as part of a pioneering initiative to improve language development in children ages 0-3. The “Providence Talks” program, which took first place in the competition against 20 finalists selected from 305 applicants, rolls out this spring with a pilot of 75 families, and is expected to grow to 2,000 families by 2015. The LENA donated its full participation in Providence Talks, including all equipment, software and staff time.

August 24, 2013
By Richard H. Thaler

Public Policies, Made to Fit People

Richard H. Thaler, an economist from the University of Chicago, notes that research findings in social and behavioral science can be used to improve public policy. One example is the word gap between poor and affluent families. He discusses the programs of Dr. Dana Suskind and Providence Talks, both aimed at minimizing the word gap, including their use of LENA as a tool to provide feedback to parents.

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