you won't believe this

[isa barriere]

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)
& 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> 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/
>
>
>
> >
>
>

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