you won't believe this

[Kathy Hirsh-Pasek]

Great to hear from you!  Are you up for drafting a response?  I am a  
bit crazed for the next couple of days and then I leave for Utah and  
San Francisco.  Whew. What have you been up to? Kathy
On Feb 28, 2008, at 11:31 AM, 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)
> & 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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