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LENA START!

​LENA Start is a free 10-week brain-building program for children ages 0-3!

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About LENA Start!

LENA Start is an evidence-based community program designed to engage families and help them learn how to increase conversation with their children during the first few years of life. Interactive talk — specifically back-and-forth conversation — has been proven to be a key factor in healthy early brain development. Yet most families don’t know how much they’re talking to or with their children.

During LENA Start, families use LENA’s patented “talk pedometer” technology to measure their child’s language environment. Over the course of 10 weekly sessions that can be delivered virtually or in person, families explore this data in the form of personalized, actionable feedback reports, discussing research-based strategies with their peers to increase the quality and quantity of talk at home.

​Join today and receive a bag that includes books to help build your baby’s library, LENA shirt or vest for the baby, and a state-of-the-art baby pedometer. The pedometer is the tool we use to help calculate how many words you and your child are speaking.
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Participating families earn the chance to win prizes, gift cards, and raffles! Families also get to learn about their baby’s language development and get tips and tricks to help your baby stay developmentally ahead.

3 REASONS TO SIGN UP FOR LENA

  • What’s going on in that growing brain of theirs? Learn about things such as language development and social-emotional growth.

  • Learn strategies to increase interactive talk with your child, even if they are still a baby! LENA Start parents say they interact more with their child, and are more aware of their child’s needs.

  • Early parenting often feels overwhelming, LENA Start parents say they feel a sense of community, knowing that every other parent is figuring out how to navigate their child’s development too.

LENA Start! Application & Informed Consent

By filling out and signing this form, you are applying to attend LENA Start parent sessions sponsored by For Oak Cliff. LENA Start is intended to help improve your child’s language development. If you are accepted and attend, you must agree to certain things that are outlined below. Please fill out this form carefully and read completely before you initial and sign on the other side.

NOTE: You must be the child’s parent or legal guardian to fill out this form and apply to the program. All information is required in order to apply and participate.

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