Your Baby Can Read....Research?

[isa barriere]

Dear all,

Here is a reference to a relatively recent critical review of the evidence.
The American Acedemics of Pediatrics has successfully prosecuted publishers
of these materials.

Best,
Isabelle Barriere, PhD
  Teaching gestural signs to infants to advance child development: A review
of the evidence *J. Cyne Johnston *

*Andrée Durieux-Smith *

University of Ottawa

*Kathleen Bloom *

University of Waterloo

Should parents be encouraged to teach their hearing infants to communicate
using gestural signs? Does signing in infancy advance child behaviour and
development as claimed by many commercially available products for parents?
To answer these questions, a review was undertaken to evaluate currently
available research studies that examined the effectiveness of
prelingual signing
for normally developing, hearing infants. Databases, reference lists and the
Internet were searched for relevant documents using a pre-determined
search protocol.
Seventeen reports met the review’s inclusion criteria and were retrieved and
evaluated. The review failed to support claims that signing
facilitates language
development, due to insufficiencies in scientific methods and to equivocal
results.

*Key Words:* Gestures • infants • pre-lingual • sign language • review

 First Language, Vol. 25, No. 2, 235-251 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0142723705050340


On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Ngoni Chipere <ngoni.chipere at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear all
>
> I know this thread is done, but it seems like some research has been
> carried out in this general area (in case nobody has mentioned this)
>
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100301165612.htm
>
> Look under Related Stories on the right of the article for more articles on
> the issue.
>
> best wishes
>
> Ngoni Chipere
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Liz P. <lizspeedvelmag at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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