Your Baby Can Read was closed down a while ago after being investigated by the Federal Trade Commission for false advertising. Babies cant read. The product is still being sold however, and has been repackaged, and many parents still claim that it helped their children to read. Showing children flashcards doesnt help them, its a party trick. If you show them the word happy and say lolly they will tell you its the word lolly. They are just memorising- and even if they say happy when they see the word, this isnt reading- reading means understanding the speech to speech sound pic links, and to be able to follow words in a sentence, ideally to gain meaning (or its just decoding) Year 2 children easily decoded gallimaufry this week even though they had never heard it, or knew what it meant. This research may be of interest, and the only good thing that came out of it (for the product) was that it doesnt seem to have actually harmed them. There is no evidence it helped in any way, and I would put forward that there are things that parents can do that WILL help them more. Talking to children, reading to them, singing to them, letting them explore the world. And guess what- this doesnt need for them to sit in front of a screen every day at 12 months of age. Em A new study published in the Journal of Educational Psychology tracked reading skills among 117 healthy infants between 10 and 18 months old. For 7 months, half were assigned to a media group in which babies were exposed daily to a package of DVDs, flipbooks, and word and picture flashcards designed to get infants reading within 3 to 7 months. Parents of the other half were not given any special educational tools. Standardized assessments and cutting-edge eye-tracking technology were used to compare infant attention, recognition and comprehension during exposure to words and phrases. In the end, media group parents believed that their child had, in fact, begun to read. But the investigators concluded that the special media kids demonstrated no leg up on reading.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 05:51:40 +0000
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