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September 2013 Moms
anotherlady2013
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Your Baby Can Read
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Anyone use this program? I've seen it on tv, just wondering what you ladies think of it.
4 years TTC including countless tests, 2 surgeries, and one failed IUI
Scheduled IVF for April 2013--SURPRISE, don't need it! DD Born 9/7/13
Ectopic pregnancy Sep/Oct 2014 ended in surgery, and many trips to the ER
Miracle #3: EDD 11/28/16
Scheduled IVF for April 2013--SURPRISE, don't need it! DD Born 9/7/13
Ectopic pregnancy Sep/Oct 2014 ended in surgery, and many trips to the ER
Miracle #3: EDD 11/28/16
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Re: Your Baby Can Read
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Just a heads up, baby sign language greatly delays speech. To the point that every toddler I know who's been taught it requires speech therapy because they can communicate without using words, so they do
I don't have the energy to search for the evidence, but this is not true.
Yeah... not true. at all. whatsoever. in any way.
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We're one and done!
i know several kids that learned sign language and did not have a speech delay. DS1 knew a few signs and he was talking by age one, full sentences by age 2. However DS2, who knows one sign, is in speech therapy for a delay. Signing doesn't cause delays. I could see where if a parent that just let their toddlers sign and doesn't teach them to say the word would possibly slow speech, but that's just poor education on their part.
And I asked how many kids your personal experience includes. I work and study in early childhood and I have not met one child delayed by sign language.
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those kids were probably going to have speech delays anyway.
Well that doesn't make it a fact. I've seen actually studies ..on mobile don't know how to link..... that support the exact opposite of this statement.
I have never used it but when I was in college we talked about this specific program a lot in my applied linguistics class. Basically it is not teaching your child to read it is teaching your child association. Ex. big round and red = apple.
To actually learn to read your child needs to be able to understand phonetics (the sounds letters/words make). There is no way a baby can understand that.
Scheduled IVF for April 2013--SURPRISE, don't need it! DD Born 9/7/13
Ectopic pregnancy Sep/Oct 2014 ended in surgery, and many trips to the ER
Miracle #3: EDD 11/28/16
Babies are not developmentally ready to learn to read. There are stages that every kid works through on their way to literacy, and they truly do have to go through all of those normal stages.
Best way to ensure that your kid is a reader? Read to them. And that can be done from day one without any harm to your kid. Even when they are too small to understand what is going on, it is a good bonding experience for parents and kiddos.
Your Baby Can Read is more like hey we'll take your money and get your baby to memorize things. Its a waste and I would never do it with any of my kids.
As for the sign language bit. We always and will again with the twins teach both the sign and the word. DD is 3 and we do ECFE sessions at the school and the teachers were extremely impress at how she speaks in full sentences and in most cases, proper sentences "My mommy got me a blue ball" vs "Mine mommy got a me a blue ball".
With DS we taught him the signs which he still does but will say the word as well but he had that darn paci up until about a month ago and while he had it he wouldnt talk much. Since we took it away he is speaking in full sentences as well. Not close to the level of his sister but hes getting there.
Personal experience is a good way to say this could happen, do some research on it but it doesnt mean its fact for everyone.
It's an utter waste of money. Just read books with your baby. That's the biggest environmental factor in a child's reading skills. The number of hours that you read with and to your child.
Also, sign language does not make your child unable to talk. Some kids do show a slight delay in spoken language, but they typically have higher receptive language skills than kids not taught sign and they have totally normal speech skills after they begin talking (if not slightly above average).
I agree with everything that you said. I teach kindergarten and am very against programs like this. Personally even if it did work I would be against it. Parents need to let their babies and children be the age that they are and not push them to do things that are not developmentally appropriate.
This is absolutely untrue.
We've used signs with both LOs and will with LO3 as well. J. does have a speech delay, but it's unrelated to that. A., on the other hand, has no delay (she says well over a dozen words at 15 months, in addition to using various signs).
Teaching them signs allows them to express themselves more, not less. She has created several signs of her own for words she can't say yet.
Anyway, OP, the program is a waste of money.
I use signs in my daycare with the 2 year old, 20 month old and 18 month old. All of the chidren are doing really well with their speech for their ages. The 20 month old is speaking full sentences and his parents are the ones that use the signs at home the most.
I could go on and on, but just wanted to share a small part of my experience with signing. And, yeah. I agree with PPs that "Your Baby Can Read" is not useful.
ETA: edited for spelling error
This! I have a Master's in early intervention and have been teaching babies and toddlers sign language for 10 years. That statement doesn't even make sense from a neurological perspective. All the research points in favor of teaching sign.
Anyone else notice that penguinkitty only has two posts, and they're both on this thread? Interesting.
I definitely like the idea of teaching how to sign. My best friend does that with her daughter and it seems to work well.
Scheduled IVF for April 2013--SURPRISE, don't need it! DD Born 9/7/13
Ectopic pregnancy Sep/Oct 2014 ended in surgery, and many trips to the ER
Miracle #3: EDD 11/28/16
I've been noticing there has been several people with low post counts come in stir up shiiit and disappear lately
Meh, I don't think she was stirring anything up. It's not like she called me a terrible person for considering sign language. Probably just a statement that she regretted after people kept commenting, she didn't try to argue it.
this, all the way
Why does your baby need to read? Just let them be little...
Argh!!! NOT TRUE. I am a speech pathologist. If you actually follow the published research, you'd find he same thing I do in my practice. Sign is an excellent precursor to speech development and an excellent means of communicating before speech is developed. My child signed. We did not push, force, or "teach." Just model, talk to your kid. We found that he quickly picked up on using signs independently. And when developmentally ready, picked up on speech. He dropped sogns independently as speech became more efficient. At 2, he is extremely verbal, extremely articulate, and has an outstanding vocabulary and mature grammatical structures.
As for My Baby Can Read... No, my legit. And what's the rush anyway? Let your baby be a baby and let your kid be a kid. They don't need to graduate from college at 16 to be happy, healthy people!
My personal experience is that DS knew about 15 signs and at 2 is talking in complete sentences. At his 2-year checkup our pediatrician told me he is well ahead of the curve in terms of language development. I don't know that I can necessarily attribute that to sign language as much as I can the fact that DH and I are just very talkative and he picked it up naturally. But I can tell you he and his friends who did sign language talk well more than his friends who didn't. I don't think any of them have speech delays, they just aren't as talkative. Knowing sign language didn't prevent him from learning words. It actually taught him the opposite...that he could communicate and get what he wanted/needed.