Working from home while caring for a baby is an all-too-familiar juggling act these days. A mom in Phoenix tells her story of how LENA Start helped.
Working from home while caring for a baby is an all-too-familiar juggling act these days. A mom in Phoenix tells her story of how LENA Start helped.
What can you do to ensure you’re supporting parents experiencing perinatal mood or anxiety disorders?
Highlights and topics that emerged from our webinar on caregiver-child interactions during COVID with Dr. Sean Deoni and Dr. Jill Gilkerson.
We’re committed to maximizing LENA Grow’s impact on early educators’ careers. Expanding LENA Grow’s approval for professional development hours is an important part of that equation.
COVID-era babies may be at greater risk of experiencing language delays.
An assortment of the LENA Team’s favorite books, in honor of National Reading Month.
Highlights from a webinar where we hear directly from a teacher, coach, and administrator using LENA Grow.
A study out of Cherokee County, S.C., has found a correlation between parent participation in LENA programs and higher scores on the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment.
A recent Community Conversation among our partners inspired these new ideas about recruiting families for programs like Start and Home.
Children participating in LENA Grow gained nearly 1.5 months’ worth of language skill acquisition in just one month’s time, achieving developmental milestones at an accelerated rate.
How to talk with teachers, family child care providers, and center directors about participating in LENA Grow.
Last year around this time, we wrote that “2020 wasn’t the year we planned for.” Has 2021 been any different? Has it been any more normal? Well, yes and no.
A look back at some of the blog posts, webinars, reports, and resources that attracted the most eyes and ears in 2021.
These 12 LENA Grow advisors are helping to implement big improvements to the program.
Arrow Impact is a private foundation supporting “initiatives that create pathways to economic prosperity for communities that have been marginalized and under-resourced.”
LENA’s research team completed an analysis of the impact that certification has on teachers who participate in LENA Grow.
Programs like LENA Start and LENA Home can help parents reflect on their hopes and dreams and follow through on their goals.
A recent change to the Texas Rising Star QRIS assigns more weight to the importance of adult-child interactions in early childhood programs.
A study out of Australia has applied a unified theory of acceptance and use of technology model to LENA, underlining the importance of paying attention to parents’ individual circumstances.
For early childhood teachers, wearing a mask and nurturing quality interactions may be at odds with each other.
Survey results tell us that families’ enthusiasm for LENA Start has held steady more than a year into the pandemic. Three personal family stories show us why.
In the context of COVID, two studies put mothers, fathers, and the language environments they nurture in stark relief.
Researchers with the LiLO study have set out to measure children’s home language environments every six months from birth to school entrance.
According to survey data, 99% of teachers would recommend LENA Grow to other teachers, and 93% of coaches say the program has had a positive impact on their relationships with teachers.