How to Read the LENA Grow Child Report
Your guide to the Child Report for LENA Grow
Take a video tour of the Child Report
Watch this video for a quick tour of the 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.
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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.
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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.
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4. Hourly Adult Words
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- Each bar shows the number of adult words spoken to or near the child in that hour of the highlighted day.
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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.
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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.
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Child Report FAQs
Why does a child's report show LENA Days from before the sequence started?
The Child Report is cumulative. It shows all LENA Days the child has experienced in all LENA Grow sequences.
A child with data from before the current sequence has participated in a previous sequence.
Similarly, in reports for a closed group, any child who continued in a later sequence will show later dates.
How can I print past LENA Days?
See this article for instructions on viewing past LENA Days.
