Haskins Laboratories, Inc is an independent 501 non-profit corporation, founded in 1935 and located in New Haven, Connecticut, since 1970.
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12 Facts About Haskins Laboratories
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Haskins Laboratories is a multidisciplinary and international community of researchers which conducts basic research on spoken and written language.
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The Haskins Laboratories has a long history of technological and theoretical innovation, from creating systems of rules for speech synthesis and development of an early working prototype of a reading machine for the blind to developing the landmark concept of phonemic awareness as the critical preparation for learning to read an alphabetic writing system.
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Haskins Laboratories is equipped, in-house, with a comprehensive suite of tools and capabilities to advance its mission of research into language and literacy.
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Caryl Haskins Laboratories conducted research in microbiology, radiation physics, and other fields in Cambridge, MA and Schenectady.
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US Office of Scientific Research and Development, under Vannevar Bush asked Haskins Laboratories to evaluate and develop technologies for assisting blinded World War II veterans.
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Experimental psychologist Alvin Liberman joined the Haskins Laboratories to assist in developing a "sound alphabet" to represent the letters in a text for use in a reading machine for the blind.
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Researchers at Haskins connected their first computer to a speech synthesizer designed by the Laboratories' engineers.
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In 1970, Haskins Laboratories moved to New Haven, Connecticut, and entered into affiliation agreements with Yale University and the University of Connecticut; Haskins remains fully independent of both Yale and UConn, administratively and financially.
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The Mastering Reading Instruction program [26], which combines professional development with Haskins Laboratories-trained mentors, was a continuation of ERS.
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In March 2005 Haskins Laboratories moved to a new, state-of-the-art facility on the 9th floor of a commercial building at 300 George Street in New Haven.
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In 2009, Haskins Laboratories released a new Strategic Plan [33], featuring new Birth-to-Five and Bilingualism initiatives.
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