Reading to young children improves language and cognitive development

English-speaking mothers who begin reading to their children at a very early age have toddlers with greater language comprehension, larger, more expressive vocabularies and higher cognitive scores by the age of 2.

Meanwhile, Spanish-speaking mothers who read to their children every day have 3-year-olds with greater language and cognitive development than those who aren’t read to. These results, based on research from researcher at the universities of Nebraska-Lincoln, Iowa State, New York, Columbia and Harvard, and from Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., are published in the July/August 2006 issue of the journal Child Development.

The researchers chose their focus because while numerous studies have shown connections between parental reading to preschoolers and children’s language development in low-income families, there has been surprisingly little research of low-income children below the age of 3. Yet this is a very important period for the language development required for later reading success.

Click here to read the whole article.

3 comments August 13, 2008

Brainy Babies

Brainy Babies
Teaching Your Infant to Read
By Anne Marie Kirby

Little Trinity Veith is just learning her first baby words. But when she started to read at 18 months, that surprised everyone. Trinity’s mother, Georgia, demonstrates by holding up a flash card with the words “arms up,” and Trinity reaches toward the sky. But her wealth of vocabulary doesn’t stop there. Her mother says Trinity is reading words out loud, such as “ears,” “clock” and “Hi.”

Continue Reading 3 comments July 7, 2008

Look Who’s Reading Now

It’s an incredible stage in development. The moment your child learns to read usually happens in kindergarten or first grade. But in tonight’s special assignment report, 7’s Lynn Martinez found some babies are actually learning to read with the help of a new video.

Continue Reading 3 comments July 7, 2008

A Review of Your Baby Can Read!

Review Of Your Baby Can Read DVD Early Language Development System

By Dee Matthews

As an experienced parent of 3 children, ages 20, 16 and 2, I am naturally cynical about any product that makes a claim as extravagant as teaching your baby to read. I taught preschool for more than 15 years and believed that children learn to read by being read to, and by learning phonics when they enter public school at age 5 or 6.

Continue Reading 1 comment June 19, 2008

Your Baby Can Read!

Your Baby Can Read! is an amazing early reading baby program that consists of 5 Interactive DVDs and Double-sided Sliding Word and Picture Cards. You can see the program at www.YourBabyCan.com. Here you will see real children that have used the program. Parents are raving about how it has changed their children’s lives!

2 comments June 19, 2008

The Ellen Show and Your Baby Can Read!

Your Baby Can Read! will be featured on the ELLEN Show this coming Monday, November 5, 2007!

The show will feature Graham, a 5 year-old who can read above sixth grade level. Graham learned to read by using the Your Baby Can Read! DVD program, his parents began working with him when he was only 6 months-old. Ellen was so impressed with his amazing ability to read, that she invited him to be on her show and have him read a portion of her new book. Here is a link to Ellen’s website with the show time listings. We hope that you are able to check it out!

The ELLEN Show Times

The Your Baby Can Read! program

Your Baby Can Read! Staff

Add comment November 1, 2007

Northern Ireland’s Parent Show of the Year

Add comment March 23, 2007

More Your Baby Can Read News!

Here is a string of posts on Your Baby Can Read! You can check out the link and hear what Moms are saying about the program.

Read the blog.

Add comment February 9, 2007

Next Posts


Top Posts

Recent Posts

Categories

Feeds

Add to Technorati Favorites