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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.
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.

Help us reach our goal of getting 1,000,000 conversational turns (baby words) at For Oak Cliff.

    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.​

    Note: Texts are a key part of this program and will be sent to those numbers with the ‘Receive program texts’ checkbox checked. You’ll receive about three texts (primarily reminders) per week from 855-960-0731, and data and message rates may apply. If you are not or are no longer able to receive texts, please speak with your coordinator immediately. You can cancel your receipt of these text messages at any time by texting STOP to 855-960-0731. For help with these texts or with LENA Start, see your coordinator, or text HELP to 855-960-0731.

    Please initial each statement to show that you have read it, and that you understand and consent.

    I am applying to attend LENA Start. I understand this includes using a small LENA recorder my child wears for a full day after each session, using special clothing. Recordings are done to generate information. They cannot and will not be listened to and will be deleted after they are processed. My child and people around my child will be recorded during recording days. I will do my best to avoid recording other adults without their knowledge and consent and to inform other adults that recording is going on and why. 
    LENA Start is made up of 10 weekly sessions about 60-90 minutes long. In some cases, these sessions may be held remotely, requiring me to use my phone or personal computer to call in or connect via a tool identified by For Oak Cliff. If I am accepted and begin the program, I will attend sessions as scheduled, or arrange a makeup session if I have to miss a session. In order to graduate, I understand that I must:
        1. Attend (or make up) all the first 4 sessions and at least 3 of the next 6 sessions
        2. Turn in at least 6 LENA recordings

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    Information that can be identified with me or my child will be kept confidential from anyone other than For Oak Cliff, LENA, and any affiliated professionals, all of whom will comply with all laws regarding confidentiality. I have read the note about texts on the previous page and agree that For Oak Cliff and LENA may use aggregated information for their own purposes in any way that does not reveal my or my child’s identity or violate any federal, state, or local laws or regulations, and in accordance with LENA’s privacy policy, available at lena.org/privacy-policy.
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    The purpose of LENA Start is to improve child language development by teaching me practical techniques to increase personal interactions with my child. Specific improvements are not guaranteed. Instructors are not child development or healthcare professionals. If I have questions about my child’s health or development, I will consult a professional.

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    If photos or videos taken during classes include me and/or members of my family, I give permission for use of these images by For Oak Cliff or LENA.

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    LENA may provide the opportunity for me to complete ongoing language questionnaires until my child is 36 months of age. I agree to participate in this follow-up.

    AUTHORIZATION AND RELEASE

    By signing below, I apply to attend LENA Start program sessions. I have read and understood this form, my questions about LENA Start have been answered to my satisfaction, and I agree on behalf of myself and my child to the conditions. I and my child do not give up any of our legal rights as participants in LENA Start.
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