Presentation Archives
Opening Remarks
Judi Paul
Chairman and Co-Founder
LENA
Supporting Parents’ Success: The Secret Sauce for Closing the Achievement Gap
Ralph Smith
Managing Director
The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading
Senior Vice President
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Early Adversity and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Development of a Family-Based Intervention
Eric Pakulak, PhD
Research Associate
University of Oregon
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Panel Discussion: Parent-Focused Interventions
Anne Fernald, PhD
Josephine Knotts Knowles Professor in Human Biology
Stanford University
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Susan Landry, PhD
Director, Children’s Learning Institute
University of Texas HSC
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Betty Vohr, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Alperty Medical School of Brown University
Director, Neonatal Follow-Up Clinic, Women & Infants Hospital
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Moderator:
Scott McConnell, PhD
Professor, Educational Psychology and Center for Early Education and Development
Fesler-Lampert Chair in Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota
Thirty Million Words: Building a Child’s Brain
Keynote: Dana Suskind, MD
Founder and Director
Thirty Million Words® Initiative
Professor of Surgery
University of Chicago
Twenty Years Later, What Are We Doing and Why?
Stephen M. Hannon, PhD
President
LENA
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Panel Discussion: LENA Technology in Intervention
Courtney Hawkins
Executive Director
Providence Talks
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Quavis Brown
Pre-K Coordinator
Huntsville City Schools
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Carine Risley
Library Services Manager
San Mateo County Library
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Moderator:
Michael Baum
Director of Early Childhood Program Development
LENA
Hart & Risley 20 Years Later: Perspectives and Progress
Steve Warren, PhD
Professor of Speech-Language Sciences
University of Kansas
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Weaving Early Brain and Language Development into the Fabric of Communities
Kara Dukakis
Director
Too Small to Fail
Senior Vice President
Strong Families and Early Learning, The Opportunity Institute
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Panel Discussion: Whose Job is This, Anyway?
Dimitri Christakis, MD, MPH
George Adkins Professor of Pediatrics
University of Washington
Director
Center for Child Health, Behavior & Development, Seattle Children’s Research Institute
Catherine Atkin
Executive Director
Early Learning Lab
Andrew Medlar
President
Association for Library Service to Children
Moderator:
Dana Hughes, DrPH
Professor of Health Policy
Department of Family and Community Medicine and Philip R. Lee Institute for Health
Policy Studies
University of California, San Francisco
The Language Gap as a Public Health Crisis
Comer Yates
Executive Director
Atlanta Speech School
Panel Discussion: Who Pays for This, Anyway?
Meera Mani, EdD
Director
Children, Families, and Communities (CFC)
Program
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Harriet Dichter
Senior Manager
Early Education Services ICF International
E. Casey Wardynski, PhD
Superintendent
Huntsville City Schools
Moderator:
Katherine (Kat) Kaufmann
Partner
The Bridgespan Group