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Talk Early, Talk Often to Boost Toddler Language Skills

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.
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Advancement Made in Automatic Autism Screen Increases Accuracy to 91%, Scheduled for Release This Month

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.
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LENA Foundation Announces Development of Automatic Autism Screen

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.
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Five Studies at International SRCD Meeting in Denver Use Technology from Boulder Foundation

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.
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LENA Foundation Revives Popular Online Assessment Tool

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.
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Pediatrics: LENA in the NICU

Pediatrics: LENA in the NICU Congratulations to Melinda Caskey, Bonnie Stephens, Richard Tucker and Betty Vohr on their article in Pediatrics! Click here to learn about this breakthrough study from Women and Infants Hospital, Brown University.
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Autism's First Child

As new cases of autism have exploded in recent years—some form of the condition affects about one in 110 children today—efforts have multiplied to understand and accommodate the condition in childhood. But children with autism will become adults with autism, some 500,000 of them in this decade alone. What then? Meet Donald Gray Triplett, 77, of Forest, Mississippi. He was the first person ever diagnosed with autism. And his long, happy, surprising life may hold some answers.
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Recovery from autism

When Deborah Fein first met "Catherine," the 13-month-old child was almost completely nonverbal. She avoided eye contact, did not respond to her name, and displayed little facial expression - all classic signs of autism, a complex developmental disease that affects 1 in 110 births in the United States.
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Detecting Autism Earlier

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).
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Vocal Analysis Study in PNAS

PNAS has published a study showing that an automated vocal analysis of child recordings can differentiate among children with autism, language delay, and typical development. The article reports that LENA System technology and statistical analyses were used to assess variations in the infrastructural characteristics of early vocal output.
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