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Talk Early, Talk Often to Boost Toddler Language Skills 11/19/2009 University of Kansas researchers Betty Hart, Ph.D., and Todd R. Risley, Ph.D., toiled for years with old-fashioned tape recorders and manual transcription methods to gather the data they needed to show a correlation between the amount of language a child is exposed to before age three and increased IQ and academic success in later years. These technological constraints limited their data gathering ability to an in-house observer recording one hour of language per month from children 10 months of age or older. Read more Advancement Made in Automatic Autism Screen Increases Accuracy to 91%, Scheduled for Release This Month 9/2/2009 LENA Foundation has increased the accuracy of the LENA Autism Screen (LAS) to 91 percent for children 24 to 48 months. LAS—the first automatic and totally objective autism screen—is now as accurate or more accurate than other autism screens currently available to parents and clinicians. Read more LENA Foundation Announces Development of Automatic Autism Screen 8/6/2009 The LENA Foundation announced today that its researchers have developed an automatic autism screen based on detectable acoustic patterns in the recorded vocalizations of children with autism. Read more Five Studies at International SRCD Meeting in Denver Use Technology from Boulder Foundation 3/31/2009 The not-for-profit LENA Foundation is putting forth a strong presence at the 2009 Biennial Meeting of the Society of Research in Child Development (SRCD). At the event, April 1–4 in Denver, Colorado, four talks and one poster will be presented based on findings obtained with LENA System technology. Read more LENA Foundation Revives Popular Online Assessment Tool 3/16/2009 The LENA Developmental Snapshot is back by popular demand, once again offering parents a quick and easy way to find out their child’s developmental age online. Read more View archives				Autism Vocal Screen 7/30/2010 Research suggests that children with autism can benefit from early diagnosis and intervention. But the symptoms of autism can be hard to identify in very young children. Justin Warner reports on a new diagnostic tool. [Story starts at 05:23 in podcast.] Listen Detecting Autism Earlier 7/22/2010 My son Nick is autistic. My wife and I first began noticing something was off when Nick was 18 months old, but our pediatrician said not to worry, he's just developing slowly, let's see where he is in six months. When the pediatrician repeated that wait-and-see advice six months later, we ignored it and got Nick diagnosed at Children's Hospital Boston (and got another pediatrician). Read more BBC Radio Scotland on PNAS Study 7/20/2010 LENA Foundation Language Research Director Jill Gilkerson, Ph.D., explains how it's possible to identify children at risk for autism by analyzing subtle anomalies in child vocalizations and what this capability means for the future of autism treatment. Listen Screening speech may aid autism diagnosis: study 7/19/2010 A device may be able to automatically screen young children for autism based on how they talk, U.S. researchers said on Monday. Read more Voice technology 'could help detect autism' 7/19/2010 Research suggests the babbling of infants with autism differs from that of children without it. The differences were spotted with 86% accuracy using automated vocal analysis technology. Read more A speech screen for autism? 7/19/2010 A tool that automatically assesses young children's vocalizations should enable faster and more objective measures of language learning in natural environments than current methods allow. And its developers claim that the new tool may also help the early detection of autism by detecting speech abnormalities associated with it. Read more Signs of autism can be heard in children’s speech 7/19/2010 To a trained ear, a child’s early speech patterns can hint at autism. But as a screening method, detecting speech and voice problems can be difficult, and is not widely used. Read more Texting While Parenting 7/18/2010 We spend a lot of time reporting on the effect technology has on our kids, but what about the effect distracted parents are having on their children? Just takes a little honesty to admit many parents spend just as much time buried in their own electronics while life goes on around them, and some experts have identified this now as a serious problem. NBC's Kevin Tibbles reports tonight from suburban Chicago. Watch report Stop Texting, Dad! I'm Talking to You! 6/10/2010 Dr. Dana Suskind, a language researcher and surgeon at the University of Chicago, agreed to record language use in six Chicago-area households where the parents say they frequently check their smartphones. Read more The Risks of Parenting While Plugged In 6/9/2010 WHILE waiting for an elevator at the Fair Oaks Mall near her home in Virginia recently, Janice Im, who works in early-childhood development, witnessed a troubling incident between a young boy and his mother. Read more View archives

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