Backed by 20+ years of research, lena grow focuses on the key marker of quality in early childhood education Lena’s researchers describe a child as experiencing language isolation if they engage in fewer than five conversational turns per hour for all but the single hour during which the most conversational turns occurred. Or, what lena calls “conversational turns.”
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From head start classrooms to family child care homes and private child care centers, and from libraries to public health initiatives and research universities, lena’s programs are creating measurable differences in children’s lives around the world.
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At lena, we turn the science of measuring conversational turns into action Our programs help child care centers, school districts, and families worldwide boost early language development — creating measurable results that transform children’s futures.
