Let's look at the facts: social communication development is among the core deficits in autism. We also know that the cumulative richness of children's interactive language experience relates strongly to their later language and literacy development. Below are a few reasons why the LENA System can serve as an invaluable tool to collecting and analyzing child speech:

• LENA is the only automatic speech measurement device in existence and it reliably measures key sources of communication and language development including turn-taking and amount of language input.
• LENA may assist parents in providing the richest possible social language learning environment for their child with autism, just as it may for typical developing children.
• LENA may assist practitioners in assuring that their intervention efforts are provided in the context of a rich social language environment.