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Educational DVDs: Your Baby Can Read

I have heard a lot about the DVD called Your Baby Can Read and decided to check out their website. This program claims to increase communication skills and enhance learning ability among other things. According to the founder of the program, ”the current practice of starting to teach reading skills in school is too late and children benefit greatly from getting a much earlier start since a child basically has only one natural window for learning language — from about birth to about age four.” The infants and toddlers on the website seem to read quite easily, but I’m not sure they understand what they have read. Have you used or know any child who has used these videos? What has been your experience? Also what do you think about such videos teaching infants and toddlers to read at such a young age?

~ Elise, babybites NJ