Tested and Approved

LENA has the potential to radically transform child education and parenting, and is also providing a pioneering and invaluable technological breakthrough in the understanding of children’s intellectual
development.

- Frank J. Sulloway, PhD, Institute of Personality and Social Research, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives.

People today cannot live without their cell phones or IPODs/MP3 players. The LENA unit will be the indispensable tool (Swiss Army knife) for the speech scientist or speech-language pathologist working with children/infants.

The Lena Pro and Lena Research platforms will, for the first time, offer flexible integrated analysis of child/infant vocalizations along with their environment in a longitudinal manner – unique processing algorithms for determining conversational turns and adult word count will provide a rich measure of the child’s present language skills as well as the child’s environment. In addition, the LENA Pro and Research platforms will allow expert speech scientists, speech-language pathologists, and child language specialists the opportunity to perform analysis, organize and assess instantaneous and longitudinal language development and environmental context.

- John H.L.Hansen Ph.D. Department Chair and Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science; Distinguished Chair in Telecommunications Engineering; Professor, School of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Robust Speech Systems, Coordinator, IEEE Signal Processing Distinguished Lecturer (2005-06) University of Texas at Dallas.

The LENA System is to speech and language what the MRI is to medicine. It’s a visual, microscopic snapshot to help diagnose, determine the best approach for treatment and track progress. This tool is the only way for SLPs and researchers to determine if an intervention strategy is working. We clinicians know what we hear in the office, but until now, we have never been able to indirectly experience language and conversation at
home.

- Judy Montgomery, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, former president of ASHA, current Professor of Special Education and Literacy at Chapman University in Orange, CA.

This technology is truly like opening a window into the home – a natural view into the child’s language in his or her own environment. The LENA Research will become an important tool for our university department, especially as we pilot future language studies. And we know that this measurement system changes behavior in parents.

- Kimbrough Oller, Ph.D., fellow of ASHA, professor and Plough Chair of Excellence at the School of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Memphis.