Or, what lena calls “conversational turns.” Our community advisory board brings together a coalition of leaders and thinkers across the early childhood community to inform key strategic decisions at lena. 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. Explore 250+ studies from 40+ countries 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.
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. Discover lena grow's impact on child development and teacher retention
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