<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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?<div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Kathy</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div> <div>
<div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">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.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">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.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">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.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">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.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://www.lenababy.com">http://www.lenababy.com</a>/</font></div></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div></div></div></div></div><br>
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