Your Baby Can Read....Research?

[Aliyah MORGENSTERN]

Dear Liz,
I don't know the program, so I can't judge but I'm a bit amazed. We  
want babies to baby-sign at 9 months (which isn't acquiring sign  
language in a signing environment) and now to read at 16 months...  
Maybe it is important that children be kept in a non literate world  
for a few years and use their ears (when they can) before entering  
language through reading skills. Reading is extremely important, but  
literacy does change our perspective on language and I'm personally  
glad we all spend a few years developing our oral language, our  
gestures, ou prosody, and all that comes with the vocal modality. I do  
think that literacy changes our whole perspective onclangauge. We gain  
a new world, we lose what cultures without a writing system did  
maintain. But I'm not a specialist in that field. It seems to me that  
reading too soon could get them focussed on different skills and they  
might not use their natural capacities and the specific cognitive and  
mostly interactional or social skills as much. But I might be wrong,  
we all code-switch between two languages, some of us from birth, maybe  
that is just the same. It might just bring more to them and be an  
enrichment. I was glad my kids learned to play music at four where  
some of my friends found that it was totally crazy...
If you decide to go ahead, let me know what you think of it.

Best,
Aliyah MORGENSTERN

Professeur de linguistique
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
Institut du Monde Anglophone
5 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine
75006 Paris




Le 28 févr. 10 à 22:53, Liz P. a écrit :

> Hello Everybody,
> I have a 16 month old baby girl, and i just recently acquired the Your
> Baby Can Read Program, but when i started watching it, it seems too
> good to be true, and i was asking my Language Acquisition professor
> and she suggested that i inquire within to see if anyone knows the
> research behind this program and if there are any down falls or
> reasons why i shouldnt continue with the program with my daughter. I
> can see the Pros (shell learn to read and expand her vocabulary) but
> what would the Cons be. Thank you so much for your time. Any comments
> will be appreciated
>
> Liz Pattison
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