The Developmental Snapshot is an age-appropriate questionnaire that estimates your child's developmental age up to 36 months. LENA scientists and speech language pathologists developed the questionnaire, which is reliable and valid, and is highly correlated to standardized developmental assessments. See how your child's developmental age compares to his or her actual age... The Daily Conversational Turns Report provides feedback about the total amount of engaged interaction that occurs with your child. A conversational turn is a vocal initiation (coos, squeals, babbles, or words) by your child and a response by you, or vice versa. A high percentile rank for conversational turns establishes a rich language environment and an enhanced lifelong learning curve for your child. You can also see the average amount of these conversational turns your child experiences per day during a month of LENA use - and corresponding percentile rank - in the Monthly Conversational Turns report.

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Using LENA is easy as
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LENA Clothing

Step 1
Slip the Digital Language Processor (DLP) into your child’s LENA clothing pocket.

LENA Digital Language Processor

Step 2
After a day of recording, plug the DLP into your PC.

Conversational Turns Report

Step 3
The software processes your audio data and you view your LENA Reports.

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LENA: The only automated language development analysis tool.

Empowering parents of adoptive families by providing a way to measure and analyze your child’s language environment and development.

Adoption of an infant or toddler is an exciting and much anticipated event for any family. One concern all new adoptive parents have is where their child is developmentally, and how they can encourage them in their new environment. LENA can help.

LENA is the only automatic language collection and analysis tool for parents and children. It allows you to:

  • Easily monitor and measure your child’s language environment.
  • Track the number of adult words and conversational turns with your child by hour, day, and month.
  • Analyze your child’s language developmental age compared to his or her chronological age.
  • Enjoy peace of mind about your child’s transition and language development.

Delays in speech and language development are the most common delays presented in adopted babies and toddlers. But with the LENA System™ you can overcome these delays and improve your child’s language development by providing a rich language environment – as proven by research, about 17,000 words per day and 600 Conversational Turns.

The LENA System not only provides an in-depth look into your child’s natural language environment, it also has the Developmental Snapshot feature, allowing parents to compare their child’s developmental age with other children of the same chronological age.

The LENA Reports give you solid data about the number of words spoken to your child, the number of interactions the two of you have and a look at the quality of your child’s audio environment. With LENA, new parents are able to focus on ensuring their child is being given every advantage for a bright academic future.

Don’t ‘wait and see’ – take action. Early detection and intervention has been shown to increase the ability to excel later in life.

Provide the best possible advantage for children: with LENA.

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