Your Baby Can Read....Research?

[wing0050 at umn.edu]

Thank you, Dr. Ornat. Chris 


On Mar 1 2010, Susana Lopez Ornat wrote:

>Chris, I loved your sensible message
>
>Dra.Susana López Ornat
>
>Dpto. Psicología Básica II
>Facultad de Psicología
>Universidad Complutense de Madrid
>Madrid 28223
>
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>Subject: Re: Your Baby Can Read....Research?
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>Hi, Liz:
>
>I am guessing that you are the wonderful type of parent who will provide a
>stimulating environment for your child in a myriad of ways, and so my sense
>is that whether you include early reading in this stimulating environment
>or not, your child will do well. I have been asked this and similar
>questions (re electronic programs, Baby Einstein, signing, early reading,
>etc.) by a significant number of parents, and my response is generally that
>given the gestalt of supportive and stimulating parenting that will occur
>under your tutelage, you child will do well with or without early reading.
>However, having said that, my own bias is that there is not much to be
>gained by this pursuit. Generally, research on preschool readers indicates
>that they tend to join a well-educated cohort at the same reading level by
>grade 3. My own bias, having reviewed the sensorimotor literature and
>worked with a good number of sensorimotor therapists over the course of my
>career as an SLP, is to prioritize for young children hands-on and
>multi-sensory experiences, accompanied by the appropriate oral language, as
>the best foundation for future learning. (I also read that one of the
>causative factors in our immune deficiency-prone society is our lack of
>exposure to good old dirt and other nasty substances at an early age.)
>While I emphasize pre-literacy and literacy skills to my low SES (and
>wonderful) cohort of prschool children and parents, my advice to
>well-educated and middle income and beyond cohorts is to sit back, talk to
>your child, and get dirty.
>Chris Wing,
>Doctoral Candidate
>Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
>University of Minnesota
>United States of America
>
>
>On Feb 28 2010, Aliyah MORGENSTERN wrote:
>
>>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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