you won't believe this

[Melanie Soderstrom]

I think some kind of statement from the research community might be 
warranted given the media attention. Perhaps written by a small number 
of people and circulated for people and/or organizations to sign if they 
chose? The focus should be on setting the record straight regarding the 
research/evidence, rather than attacking a particular product, in my 
opinion.

Melanie Soderstrom

isa barriere wrote:
> Dear Kathy,
> Thanks for sharing this with all of us.
>  
> As the Director of Research in a pre-school center that serves a very 
> large number (> 2,000)of children from low SES (and many different 
> langauge backgrounds) and that incoporates a clinic (EI 0 to 3 and 
> special ed 3 to 21 - 3,000) in which I regularly contribute to 
> parent'sworkshops and staff profesisonal development, I think it is 
> essential that we write a response pointing out the many many factors 
> that we know/don't know bout that may impact timing of language 
> developmental stages.  I also suggest that we should try to do so in 
> collboration perhaps with representatives of relevant service 
> providers (such as professional SLP organization ASHA etc).
>  
> Let me know how I or other members of the organizations I work for and 
> other colleagues can help.
>  
> I look forwrad to hearing from you and to other people's reactions.
>  
> isabelle Barriere, PhD
> Director of Policy for Research & Education
> Yeled v'Yalda Early Childhood cneter (www.yeled.org 
> <http://www.yeled.org>)
> & Co-Director, YVY Research Insititute (http://www.yeled.org/res.asp)
> & Research Associate, Research Institute for the Study of Language in 
> Urban Society (RISLUS), CUNY Graduate center.
>  
>
>
>  
> On 2/28/08, *Kathy Hirsh-Pasek* <khirshpa at temple.edu 
> <mailto:khirshpa at temple.edu>> wrote:
>
>     I just read the article in the NYTimes on baby techtronics part of
>     which described the Lena system.  Yes, Lena is in the news again.
>      The adds from their web site tell us that it is relevant to any
>     parent concerned about "language delays, autism or transitioning
>     an adopted child!"  I am copying the description from the Times
>     and thought we might all want to check out how our research is
>     interpreted in the marketplace. Does this require a response from
>     our community?  What is our professional responsibility when this
>     keeps coming up in the news?
>
>      
>     Kathy
>
>      
>       
>     Last on our list was the LENA System ($399) a language measurement
>     tool developed by Infoture, in Boulder, Colo. The system is based
>     on research demonstrating a correlation between the amount parents
>     talk to their babies during their first three years and their
>     professional success later in life.
>
>      
>     The LENA System includes a credit card device and several
>     children's outfits designed with large pockets in the front.
>     Several days a month, you slip the device into the clothing and it
>     records conversation between parent and child.
>
>      
>     At the end of the day, you plug it into your personal computer.
>     Special software (available for Windows, but not Macs) analyzes
>     the speech — separating adult words and baby gurgling from other
>     noises — and reports on how many words you have spoken to your
>     baby, how often your baby responds, and where you match up against
>     the rest of the American population, to ensure your infant is
>     getting that all-important verbal edge on other infants.
>
>      
>     My girls are a bit too young for the LENA, which Infoture
>     recommends for infants from 2 months to 4 years. Instead I called
>     Jennifer Jacobs, a mother of two from Boise, Idaho, who used the
>     device to ensure her youngest child, Katherine, was not getting
>     left behind.
>
>      
>     http://www.lenababy.com <http://www.lenababy.com/>/
>
>      
>
>
>     >



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