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Presentations

“How & why early experience is so crucial in learning language”
Audio
Anne Fernald, Ph.D
Josephine Knotts Knowles Professor in Human Biology
Department of Psychology
Director, Center for Infant Studies
Stanford University
“Adult-Infant Conversations in the NICU and Language and Cognitive Outcomes in Preterm Infants”
Audio
Melinda Caskey, M.D.
Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Fellow in Neonatal Medicine
Women & Infants Hospital
“Reciprocal vocalizations between female caregivers and their infants surpass those of male caregivers in the first months of life”
Audio
Katharine Johnson, M.D.
Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Fellow in Neonatal Medicine
Women & Infants Hospital
“Language in the Home Environment of Children with Hearing Loss Compared to Hearing Controls at 6-7 Years of Age”
Audio
Betty R. Vohr, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Director, Neonatal Follow-Up Clinic
Women & Infants Hospital
“An Analysis of Adult Language in Classrooms Serving Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders”
Audio
Kara Hume, Ph.D.
Investigator, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“LENA in China: Shanghai Children’s Medical Center to Conduct First Experimental Confirmation of Hart & Risley Correlational Study”
Audio
Yiwen Zhang, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Department of Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics
Shanghai Children’s Medical Center
Hongmei Mao
Associate Professor
Director, Shanghai Luwan Early Childhood Education Consulting & Service Centre
“LENA: A Parent’s Perspective”
Audio
Trina Unzicker
Mother of twin girls who participated in a LENA Foundation research study
“Documenting the Effects of Cochlear Implants and Intervention Using LENA: Children Who Are Deaf-Blind”
Audio
Kathleen Stremel Thomas, M.A.
Project Director, Influencing Outcomes for Children Who Are Deaf-Blind with Cochlear Implants
Teaching Research Institute
Western Oregon University
“LENA Foundation Early Assessment Achievements”
Audio
Jill Gilkerson, Ph.D.
Language Research Director
LENA Foundation
“Into the wild with LENA: Project SWELL”
Audio
William M. Shobe, Ph.D., J.D.
Professor, Department of Public Policy
Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy
Director, Center for Economic and Policy Studies
Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
University of Virginia

Paige C. Pullen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education
Curry School of Education
“LENA as a Clinical Research Tool: A Deaf Child of Deaf Parents Comes to Speech”
Audio
Robyn Cantle Moore, Ph.D.
RIDBC Renwick Centre for Research and Professional Education
Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children/University of Newcastle, Australia

Christine Yoshinaga-Itano, Ph.D., CCC-A
Professor, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
University of Colorado at Boulder
“LENA: Automated Analysis Algorithms and Segmentation Detail: How to interpret and not over interpret the LENA labelings”
Audio
D. Kimbrough Oller, Ph.D.
Professor and Plough Chair of Excellence
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
University of Memphis

Posters

“The Role of Talk in Outcomes of Children who are Hard of Hearing”
Sophie Ambrose
Boys Town National Research Hospital
“Use of AVA Measures with Young Children who are Hard of Hearing”
Sophie Ambrose
Boys Town National Research Hospital
“A Longitudinal Study of Infant Speech Production Parameters: A Case Study”
Hynek Boril
CRSS: Center for Robust Speech Systems
University of Texas at Dallas
“Building Language Through Books: Outcomes of Dialogic Reading Training with Parents and their Infants with Hearing Loss”
Helen M. Morrison
Texas Christian University
Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children
“An Analysis of the Natural Language Environments of Children with Hearing Loss: The Impact of Home Language and Maternal Education Level”
Helen M. Morrison
Texas Christian University
Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children
“Spanish-Speaking Preschoolers’ English Acquisition: A Study of Bilingual Language Development Using LENA”
Francisco Palermo
Colorado State University
“Child-Adult Leading and Responding in LENA Recordings: Quantitative Measures that Predict Autism and Other Group Differences”
Anne Warlaumont
University of Memphis
“Language Environment Analysis Of Preschoolers With Autism: Validity & Applications”
Abbie McCauley
Family Child Learning Center
Akron Children's Hospital
“The School to Home Link: What LENA Can Reveal”
Mallene Wiggin
Christine Yoshinaga-Itano
University of Colorado at Boulder
“Exploring the LENA Adult Word Count Measure: What Researchers and Clinicians Should Know”
Lisa Wisman Weil
Purdue University
“Preliminary Study on Fundamental Frequency of Child and Adult in Natural Home Environment”
Dongxin Xu
LENA Foundation
“The LENA Automatic Autism Screen: Additional Validation”
Jill Gilkerson
Steven A. Rosenberg
LENA Foundation
JFK Partners