Baby Babble videos?

[Kathleen Peets]

Hello Ruth,

I am not an infant researcher as you are, but I have several concerns that
I have with all commercially available products that are targeted at
parents, and that concern relates less to children, as you suggest, and
more to parental attitudes.

Because we can't see the research-base used from the website, and baby-sign
is known to be under-researched, the intervention itself cannot be
evaluated (at least based on the website). But they do advocate using
normative charts, which I question.

My main concern is that parents could either feel a) a false sense of
security that they are serving their child's language development when it
may not be effective (which as I've said is not possible to evaluate based
on the website), or b) that they are being given information about
development that may lead them to question the "normalcy" of their own
child, when language development, particularly in the first 3 years, is
full of so much individual difference.

Will be interested in hearing what others have to contribute.

Best,
Kathleen

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Ruth Tincoff <ruth.tincoff at bucknell.edu>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> A friend asked me about the Baby Babble videos. These are new to me. I
> looked at the website<http://www.talkingchild.com/shop_BabyBabbleDVD.aspx>and am curious if others have opinions on where they fall among "fun
> activity if you like that thing, maybe get if from the library" to "woah,
> be careful, making overly bold claims" to "possibly effective intervention".
>
> Thanks for your thoughts
> Ruth
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