DOCS/LINKS

Links and Projects

1. TalkBank: An interdisciplinary research project to foster fundamental research in the study of human and animal communication.
2. LENA Research Foundation
3. Speech Kitchen by Florian Metze, Eric Fosler-Lussier, and Rebecca Bates
4. John Hansen, University of Texas - Dallas, adult LENA data
5. Charlie Greenwood, University of Kansas, Bridging the Word Gap
6. Dana Suskind, University of Chicago, Thirty-Million Words and Project Aspire
7. Non-Profits that use LENA: Non-profit Agencies Achievement Center, Erie PA Bay Cove Human Services Bright Beginnings Clayton Early Learning, Denver Grail Family Services Heartspring The Learning Center for Families (TLC) Monadnock Development Services New Mexico Association for the Education of Young Children (NMAEYC) Save the Children, Denver Siskin Children’s Institute Simon Foundation Vocel Words to Grow On, Spokane Hearing Oral Program of Excellence (HOPE School of Spokane)
8. Public Schools: Albuquerque Public Schools, NM Aurora Public Schools, NE Central/Western Nebraska Partnership for Children who are Deaf/HH Conroe Independent School District, TX Cypress-Fairbanks School District, TX Denver Public Schools, CO Doniphan-Trumball Public Schools, NE Education Service Unit #9, NE Hastings NE Public Schools, NE Katy School District, TX Lincoln Public Schools, Lincoln, NE Santa Rosa City Schools Skokie School District 69 Syracuse City School District, NY: William R. Beard School Tyler Independent School District, TX Ysleta ISD
9. Research Institutions: Bristol Speech & Language Therapy Research Unit, UK Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities (IBIS Infant Brain Imaging Study Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France (The National Centre for Scientific Research, France) Clinical Research Associates Haskins Laboratories Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD Karolinska Institute, Sweden King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Seaver Autism Center, New York City, NY NIMH, National Institute of Mental Health Puckett Institute Sardes, Netherlands Telethon Institute for Child Health Research (Adelaide) University of Colorado School of Medicine – JFK Partners
10. validation work:

    VanDam, M. (2014). Acoustic characteristics of the clothes used for a wearable recording device. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 136, EL236. doi:10.1121/1.4895015 PDF

    VanDam, M., & Silbert, N. H. (2013). Precision and error of automatic speech recognition. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19: 060006. doi:10.1121/1.4798466 PDF

    VanDam, M., & Silbert, N. H. (2013, April). Fidelity of LENA vocal activity labels. Poster presented at the LENA International Conference 2013, Denver, CO. PDF

    VanDam, M., & Silbert, N. H. (2014, June). Performance of LENA automatic speech processing in families with children who are hard of hearing. Talk presented at the 2014 International Child Phonology Conference, Missoula, MT.

    VanDam, M., & Silbert, N. H. (2014, May). Automatic speech recognition of naturalistic recordings in families with children who are hard of hearing. Talk presented at the 167th Meeting of the Acoustic Society of America, Providence, RI. PDF

    Wiesleder, A., & Fernald, A. (2013). Talking to children matters: Early language experience strengthens processing and builds vocabulary. Psychological Science, 24(11): 2143-2152. doi: 10.1177/0956797613488145 link to paper

    Soderstrom, M., & Wittebolle, K. (2013). When Do Caregivers Talk? The Influences of Activity and Time of Day on Caregiver Speech and Child Vocalizations in Two Childcare Environments. PLoS ONE, 8(11). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0080646 Open Access paper

    Gilkerson, et al, in press, Shanghai dialect of Mandarin, JSLHR

    Canault, M., Le Normand, M-T., Foudil, S., Loundon, N., & Thai-Van, H. (2015). Reliability of the Language ENvironment Analysis System (LENA tm) in European French. Behavioral Research Methods, July, 1-15. doi:10.3758/s13428-015-0634-8 link to paper

    Dutch; contact person: Petra van Alphen email - working on AWC and CTC

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