LENA is a national nonprofit on a mission to transform children’s futures through early talk technology and data-driven programs.
Transform your early childhood education program with LENA Grow's data-driven professional development. Proven to improve outcomes.
Learn about our transformational hardware and software suite that measures interactions. LENA takes two paths to improving outcomes for children from birth to five: LENA Grow professional development and LENA SP. Make every interaction count in early childhood education. Gain early language insights in research and clinical applications.
The LENA technology system is the world’s only hardware and software suite that measures interactions in early childhood education settings.
LENA Online™ v3 is a platform for accessing LENA's early talk technology and data-driven programs to transform children's futures.
Discover LENA's data-driven research insights on children's language development. Explore 250+ studies from 40+ countries. Learn more now.
LENA Grow improves outcomes, and we have the evaluation data to prove it. Learn how LENA affects everything from literacy skills to teacher retention. A child's first five years are vital for building literacy skills. Conversational turns make a big impact. Quality adult-child interactions are the heartbeat of early devleopment.
Great outcomes start with big dreams LENA was founded in 2004 by the late Terry Paul and his wife Judi, entrepreneurs who pioneered reading, math, and testing products used in 70,000 schools in the United States and more than 50 countries worldwide. Their products have helped hundreds of thousands of students to become better readers […]
LENA Grow is an evidence-based program designed to enhance language environments and improve outcomes for children through data-driven approaches.