"Your Baby Can Read!" Video

What are the main ideas behind Dr. Titzer's revolutionary multi-sensory reading approach?

With the video, the child sees the word, hears the word, says the word, and usually performs some physical activity such as clapping, waving, jumping, touching a body part, etc. This means several of the child's senses are involved in recognizing the words. According to Edelman's Theory of Neuronal Group Selection (Edelman, 1987), the latest theory of brain development, infants have more elaborate learning when more than one sensory modality is involved in learning. While his theory does not specifically mention learning to read, his theory supports the multi-sensory approach to reading.

Not only do infants and toddlers learn more using this multi-sensory approach -- they also enjoy it more because they actively participate.

Dr. Titzer's latest study on the multi-sensory reading approach.

This study included 32 two-year-old and three-year-old children. The study was recently completed at Southeastern Louisiana University with assistance from graduate students Michelle Bates, Joshua Brown, and Marcie Kennedy, and undergraduate student Michelle Donnes. The children viewed the "Your Baby Can Read!" video for a little more than two minutes. Next, the children were tested on the following words from the video: crawling, eyes, ears, smiling, clap, and gorilla. The children were shown the target word from the video and a distractor word that was not in the video. The children were given a reminder of the target word immediately before testing.

The children were able to recognize the words from the video statistically greater than chance. This is strong evidence that children are ready to learn words at an age much earlier than previously thought. Back to top.

Daycare study by the National Institutes of Health:

(As reported by NBC Nightly News - April 4, 1997)

In the most comprehensive study ever conducted on daycare centers, the National Institutes of Health concluded that children thrive in daycare centers where the environment is stimulating.

- Children develop better learning skills if daycare workers also teach.

- Children will learn 131 more words before they are 2 if they receive enough language stimulation.

- Children can begin learning as early as 6 weeks.

- Currently, there are low standards for training daycare workers.

- Nearly 1/3 of U.S. children are in daycare -- about 10 million kids.

- Scientists believe it is important that daycare workers teach and not just babysit.

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