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Research Roundup: NICU Interventions Enhance Interactive Talk With Premature Babies
Two recent publications from researchers at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island highlight the promise of interventions aimed at increasing preterm infants’ exposure to adult interaction in the NICU.
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Research Roundup: Maternal Depression and Paternal Parentese in the Context of COVID
In the context of COVID, two studies put mothers, fathers, and the language environments they nurture in stark relief.
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Research Roundup: Supporting young children and caregivers during crisis
As normal caregiving routines are disrupted by the coronavirus outbreak, three research studies provide insight into how to support children and caregivers.
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Webinars
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Family Resiliency and Early Language: Leveraging a Public Health Lens With Interactive-Talk Initiatives to Improve Child Outcomes
In this webinar, medical practitioners help us understand early language development through a public health lens. How does interactive talk build family resiliency?
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Research Roundup: How To Reduce the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Explore research-based strategies for helping children overcome adversity.
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Georgia Department of Public Health Uses Community Partnerships and Project Launch Funding To Scale Parent Programming County-Wide
The team at the West Central Health District drew on a range of existing community partners to find space to run classes, recruit parents, and scale impact.
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Teen Parent Program Adopts LENA Start To Grow Connections Between Clients, Children
A home-visiting program for teen parents in Boulder County expanded their services to include parent-group classes, to the benefit of clients and their children.
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Parents Gain Confidence, Skills, and Awareness Through LENA Start Classes
A young couple from Texas share how LENA Start classes helped them gain confidence in their parenting skills after the birth of the first daughter.
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Free Webinar: Interaction Data as Quality Systems Evolve

Every state’s quality system is designed to answer an important question: is a program providing high-quality care and learning experiences for children?

Yet quality is a moving target — in how it’s defined, how it’s measured, how it’s communicated, what it means for children in the classroom. As states evolve their approaches – some using rating systems and others emphasizing continuous quality improvement – understanding the indicators that matter most has never been more important.

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October 14 at 1:00 p.m. ET