Haskins Laboratories
Haskins Laboratories
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| Founded | 1935 |
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| Founder |
Caryl Haskins Franklin S. Cooper |
| Type | Non-profit Organization |
| 13-1628174 | |
| Focus | Speech, Language, Literacy, Education |
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| Products | Research and Analysis |
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Key people
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Kenneth Pugh, President Douglas Whalen, VP Vincent Gracco, VP Joseph Cardone, CFO Carol Fowler, Senior Advisor Philip Rubin, Senior Advisor |
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Revenue
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$7,819,648 (2014) [1] |
| Expenses | $7,019,998 (2014) [2] |
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Employees
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86 (2014) [3] |
| Website | www |
Haskins Laboratories is an independent 501(c) non-profit corporation, founded in 1935 and located in New Haven, Connecticut since 1970. It is a multidisciplinary and international community of researchers which conducts basic research on spoken and written language. A guiding perspective of their research is to view speech and language as biological processes. The Laboratories has a long history of technological and theoretical innovation, from creating the rules for speech synthesis and the first 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.
Haskins Laboratories is equipped, in-house, with a comprehensive suite of tools and capabilities to advance its mission of research into language and literacy. These include (as of 2014):
Scores of researchers have contributed to scientific breakthroughs at Haskins Laboratories since its founding. All of them are indebted to the pioneering work and leadership of Caryl Parker Haskins, Franklin S. Cooper, Alvin Liberman, Seymour Hutner and Luigi Provasoli. This history focuses on the research program of the main division of Haskins Laboratories that, since the 1940s, has been most well known for its work in the areas of speech, language and reading.
Caryl Haskins and Franklin S. Cooper established Haskins Laboratories in 1935. It was originally affiliated with Harvard University, MIT, and Union College in Schenectady, NY. Caryl Haskins conducted research in microbiology, radiation physics, and other fields in Cambridge, MA and Schenectady. In 1939 the Laboratories moved its center to New York City. Seymour Hutner joined the staff to set up a research program in microbiology, genetics, and nutrition. The descendant of this program [4] is now part of Pace University in New York.
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