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Child Report: Interpretation and FAQs

Your guide to the LENA Grow Child Report

Video tour of Child Report
Details about the contents of the Child Report
FAQs

Video tour of the LENA Grow Child Report

 

What does the Child Report show?

A printable LENA Grow Annotated Reports PDF is also available.

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1. Average Hourly Adult Words

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  • Each vertical bar shows the average number of adult words the child heard per hour on a given day.
  • The darker vertical bar is the day that is broken out into hourly data on the right.
  • The light horizontal band is the typical range in a classroom for children this age, and the dark band is the average in a home language environment.

2. Average Hourly Conversational Turns

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  • Each vertical bar indicates the average number of conversational turns the child experienced per hour on a given day.
  • The darker vertical bar is the day that is broken out into hourly data on the right.
  • The light horizontal band is the typical range in a classroom of children this age, and the dark band is the average in a home language environment.

3. Average Hourly Child Vocalizations

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  • Each vertical bar indicates the average number of vocalizations the child produced per hour on a given day.
    • A vocalization is a continuous chunk of speech or speech-related sounds. Depending on the child's age, a vocalization could be a sentence, phrase, word, babble, or coo.
  • The darker vertical bar is the day that is broken out into hourly data on the right.
  • The light horizontal band is the typical range in a classroom for children this age, and the dark band is the average in a home language environment.

4. Hourly Adult WordsLO_Report_Child_AWCHourly
  • Each bar shows the number of adult words spoken to or near the child in that hour of the highlighted day.

5. Hourly Conversational Turns

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  • Each bar shows the number of conversational turns the child experienced in that hour of the highlighted day.

6. Hourly Child Vocalizations

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  • Each bar shows the number of vocalizations the child produced in that hour of the highlighted day.

Child Report FAQs

Why isn't the daily average equal to the average of the hourly bars?

Hourly bars show actual counts in each hour, regardless of how much recording time is in that hour. In contrast, the daily average reflects total turns divided by total recording duration. (It's actually calculated using seconds, then converted to an hourly rate.) Partial hours at the beginning and end of the day make these measurements different.

How can I print past LENA Days?

See this article for instructions on viewing past LENA Days.