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Causes: Education, Educational Services
Mission: Lena research foundation's mission is to accelerate language development to improve the cognitive, social, and emotional health of children birth to five and close achievement gaps.
Programs: Lena start - this is a science-based parenting program designed to help 90% of families in poverty not served by federal programs. The best way to build young brains is to increase verbal interactions with adults. The program provides parents with regular feedback from patented early language technology, plus efficient group classes that show them how to improve the talk environment at home. Lena pro - this is an integrated processing and display software package that enables researchers, speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and pediatricians to collect, manage, and analyse multiple recordings of children ages 2 months to 48 months. Lena pro is in use at more than 200 universities, hospitals and other research institutions around the world.