Re: Your Baby Can Read

[Guest guest]

I think the program is just great. We are getting a real kick out of watching

how Adam is reacting to it. He calls the DVD Babies (there is a picture of a

baby on the front) and as soon as he is up he is saying watch Babies. He knows

all of the flash card, but I wouldn't say he is reading. I think it is more

memorizing those words by sight. It is so interesting because Adam has also

memorized chunks of the dvd. For example, if we show him the flash card for

" arms up " he will say " Arms up, Arms up. Put your arms up. Go ahead. You can do

it. " One thing, he has learned all of his colors from the dvd. We couldn't get

him to understand colors and now he knows them all. He also sings all of the

songs. We are ordering the rest of the set for him. I think it has improved

his vocabulary along with learning the words. He responds so well to learning

from dvd's, that we were actually thinking about buying an " I can learn English "

dvd and seeing if it will improve his

vocabulary more. It has also made him play with his new cousin Mia a lot more.

He is alway claping her hands and counting her toes like they do in the dvd. He

loves this set and I am sure he wil love the others too. I just wish they

weren't so fast paced. If they give a choice, they don't give time for the kids

to answer. Even a typical child would have a hard time picking an answer.

Donna - gram to Adam 4 1/2 mds

Kristy Colvin wrote:

Hi Everyone

For those who are on the Your Baby Can Read program, Can you give us an update?

How are things going? What are your child's reactions? Are they enjoying the

DVD's and flash cards? Have they begun actually recognizing the words? Has their

vocabulary increased? What about signing? Are they signing the words instead of

saying them?

Please let us know!

Kristy

[Guest guest]

Thanks Donna for the update! I appreciate all of your input on what you see is

and is not working. I think some strong points you have mentioned is that it has

increased his vocabulary and he knows his colors! That is super great! And, he

may be reading and you just don't know it yet. A lot of reading is about

memorization when they are young. I know that all of my boys learned site words

before anything else. So, if he is memorizing them, then he knows them. Try

writing the words on just a plain sheet of paper and see what he says.

If you do order the " I can learn English " dvd, please let us know how that

works with his language. I think it would be very interesting and I agree that

it probably would help him!

Kristy

Donna Spudic wrote:

I think the program is just great. We are getting a real kick out of

watching how Adam is reacting to it. He calls the DVD Babies (there is a picture

of a baby on the front) and as soon as he is up he is saying watch Babies. He

knows all of the flash card, but I wouldn't say he is reading. I think it is

more memorizing those words by sight. It is so interesting because Adam has also

memorized chunks of the dvd. For example, if we show him the flash card for

" arms up " he will say " Arms up, Arms up. Put your arms up. Go ahead. You can do

it. " One thing, he has learned all of his colors from the dvd. We couldn't get

him to understand colors and now he knows them all. He also sings all of the

songs. We are ordering the rest of the set for him. I think it has improved his

vocabulary along with learning the words. He responds so well to learning from

dvd's, that we were actually thinking about buying an " I can learn English " dvd

and seeing if it will improve his

vocabulary more. It has also made him play with his new cousin Mia a lot more.

He is alway claping her hands and counting her toes like they do in the dvd. He

loves this set and I am sure he wil love the others too. I just wish they

weren't so fast paced. If they give a choice, they don't give time for the kids

to answer. Even a typical child would have a hard time picking an answer.

Donna - gram to Adam 4 1/2 mds

Kristy Colvin wrote:

Hi Everyone

For those who are on the Your Baby Can Read program, Can you give us an update?

How are things going? What are your child's reactions? Are they enjoying the

DVD's and flash cards? Have they begun actually recognizing the words? Has their

vocabulary increased? What about signing? Are they signing the words instead of

saying them?

Please let us know!

Kristy

[Guest guest]

Just one more note. I think you are right about site words and it is about

memorizing. One advantage Adam has with this program is he already knows all of

the sounds that each letter makes. Yesterday, he was laying on the couch with

his mom. She was wearing a t-shirt that had a turtle holding a sucker that said

pop on it. He started making the P sound and the O sound and said POP. So he

is getting the concept. Then he pointed at the turtle, who is wearing round

glasses and said Lennon. His mom is a big Beatles fan.

Donna

Kristy Colvin wrote:

Thanks Donna for the update! I appreciate all of your input on what

you see is and is not working. I think some strong points you have mentioned is

that it has increased his vocabulary and he knows his colors! That is super

great! And, he may be reading and you just don't know it yet. A lot of reading

is about memorization when they are young. I know that all of my boys learned

site words before anything else. So, if he is memorizing them, then he knows

them. Try writing the words on just a plain sheet of paper and see what he says.

If you do order the " I can learn English " dvd, please let us know how that works

with his language. I think it would be very interesting and I agree that it

probably would help him!

Kristy

Donna Spudic wrote:

I think the program is just great. We are getting a real kick out of watching

how Adam is reacting to it. He calls the DVD Babies (there is a picture of a

baby on the front) and as soon as he is up he is saying watch Babies. He knows

all of the flash card, but I wouldn't say he is reading. I think it is more

memorizing those words by sight. It is so interesting because Adam has also

memorized chunks of the dvd. For example, if we show him the flash card for

" arms up " he will say " Arms up, Arms up. Put your arms up. Go ahead. You can do

it. " One thing, he has learned all of his colors from the dvd. We couldn't get

him to understand colors and now he knows them all. He also sings all of the

songs. We are ordering the rest of the set for him. I think it has improved his

vocabulary along with learning the words. He responds so well to learning from

dvd's, that we were actually thinking about buying an " I can learn English " dvd

and seeing if it will improve his

vocabulary more. It has also made him play with his new cousin Mia a lot more.

He is alway claping her hands and counting her toes like they do in the dvd. He

loves this set and I am sure he wil love the others too. I just wish they

weren't so fast paced. If they give a choice, they don't give time for the kids

to answer. Even a typical child would have a hard time picking an answer.

Donna - gram to Adam 4 1/2 mds

Kristy Colvin wrote:

Hi Everyone

For those who are on the Your Baby Can Read program, Can you give us an update?

How are things going? What are your child's reactions? Are they enjoying the

DVD's and flash cards? Have they begun actually recognizing the words? Has their

vocabulary increased? What about signing? Are they signing the words instead of

saying them?

Please let us know!

Kristy

[Guest guest]

Donna

That is FANTASTIC! He knew how to sound that out and did it AND read it! That

is right where he should be at this age! Way to go Adam!

It is hillarious that he associated the turtle's glasses with Lennon!

Adam is such a hoot!

Kristy

Donna Spudic wrote:

Just one more note. I think you are right about site words and it is

about memorizing. One advantage Adam has with this program is he already knows

all of the sounds that each letter makes. Yesterday, he was laying on the couch

with his mom. She was wearing a t-shirt that had a turtle holding a sucker that

said pop on it. He started making the P sound and the O sound and said POP. So

he is getting the concept. Then he pointed at the turtle, who is wearing round

glasses and said Lennon. His mom is a big Beatles fan.

Donna

Kristy Colvin wrote:

Thanks Donna for the update! I appreciate all of your input on what you see is

and is not working. I think some strong points you have mentioned is that it has

increased his vocabulary and he knows his colors! That is super great! And, he

may be reading and you just don't know it yet. A lot of reading is about

memorization when they are young. I know that all of my boys learned site words

before anything else. So, if he is memorizing them, then he knows them. Try

writing the words on just a plain sheet of paper and see what he says.

If you do order the " I can learn English " dvd, please let us know how that works

with his language. I think it would be very interesting and I agree that it

probably would help him!

Kristy

Donna Spudic wrote:

I think the program is just great. We are getting a real kick out of watching

how Adam is reacting to it. He calls the DVD Babies (there is a picture of a

baby on the front) and as soon as he is up he is saying watch Babies. He knows

all of the flash card, but I wouldn't say he is reading. I think it is more

memorizing those words by sight. It is so interesting because Adam has also

memorized chunks of the dvd. For example, if we show him the flash card for

" arms up " he will say " Arms up, Arms up. Put your arms up. Go ahead. You can do

it. " One thing, he has learned all of his colors from the dvd. We couldn't get

him to understand colors and now he knows them all. He also sings all of the

songs. We are ordering the rest of the set for him. I think it has improved his

vocabulary along with learning the words. He responds so well to learning from

dvd's, that we were actually thinking about buying an " I can learn English " dvd

and seeing if it will improve his

vocabulary more. It has also made him play with his new cousin Mia a lot more.

He is alway claping her hands and counting her toes like they do in the dvd. He

loves this set and I am sure he wil love the others too. I just wish they

weren't so fast paced. If they give a choice, they don't give time for the kids

to answer. Even a typical child would have a hard time picking an answer.

Donna - gram to Adam 4 1/2 mds

Kristy Colvin wrote:

Hi Everyone

For those who are on the Your Baby Can Read program, Can you give us an update?

How are things going? What are your child's reactions? Are they enjoying the

DVD's and flash cards? Have they begun actually recognizing the words? Has their

vocabulary increased? What about signing? Are they signing the words instead of

saying them?

Please let us know!

Kristy

[Guest guest]

Sorry - I haven't had time to check my email every day, so I am responding a

little late for the newsletter. Still wanted to let you know Adam has

completely mastered this dvd. We can even set all of the flash card out and say

" Find Tiger " and he will point to it. I am really proud of him.

We are having a lot of problems at his school right now. All of the

PROFESSIONALS involved in his education say this is nothing to be impressed

over. He is just memorizing things and can really put them into practice. I am

not a reading teacher, but to me reading is a lot about memorizing things.

Yesterday, we got a note about how Adam doesn't know his shapes or colors. He

has known his shapes for at least a year or more and this dvd has taught him all

of his colors. We practice every day - I know he knows them. This is so

frustrating.

Donna - gram to Adam mds and the girls

Kristy Colvin wrote:

For all of those who are in the Your Baby Can Read program, PLEASE

send me an update today! We need to include your updates in our May newsletter

MOSAIC WORLD for our brag book! If you have a picture of your child, please send

that to me in email too.

My email address is imdsapresident@... (Please do not try to send this to

the egroup. The egroup can not accept pictures)

Thanks

Kristy

[Guest guest]

-can you tell me about this DVD I was wondering if it would improve

h's vocabulary she says alot of words actually the first part of

words, but I know what she is saying she does like signing time so I

wanted to find out more about this

angie

-- In MosaicDS , " Lagonigro " wrote:

>

> Hi Kristy.

>

> Well Mia just loves the DVD and flash cards. She isn't much of a TV

watcher-I don't put it on too often for her, but she is glued to the

TV when she hears the music to the DVD. She is not reading the words

yet, but she does say baby when she sees the baby. When she sees the

seal at the zoo, she says " shhhh " , because that's what I used to say

to her with my finger against my mouth when we first started watching

the DVD!!

> We watch it about 1-2 times per day, depending on much time we have,

so I am patiently waiting for her to say the word before hearing it!!!

>

> Kim Mom to Mia 15 mos MDS

> Your Baby Can Read

>

>

> For all of those who are in the Your Baby Can Read program, PLEASE

send me an update today! We need to include your updates in our May

newsletter MOSAIC WORLD for our brag book! If you have a picture of

your child, please send that to me in email too.

> My email address is imdsapresident@...

(Please do not try to send this to the egroup. The egroup can not

accept pictures)

> Thanks

> Kristy

>

>

[Guest guest]

The Your Baby Can Read program is a DVD/Flash card set that shows children and

animals doing things. Then, after each part with the child or animal, it goes to

the word and says the word while an arrow points to each letter. It encourages

the child to say the word too. (actually, this may be visa versa now that I

think about it)

We introduced this program with the Your Baby Can Read developers to see if it

helped with babies and young children who have MDS. Research has shown that

children learn the very most as babies and toddlers and that it is best to teach

them reading before the age of 1! It was my thought that not only would it

enhance reading, but also increase vocabulary. And, those who have participated,

have said that it is enhancing reading and vocabulary, but also it has helped

Adam learn all of his colors (which he never understood before) and they all

seem to be singing A LOT now that they started the videos!

This was an introductory program to see if it did help with children with MDS,

so that we could change the marketing of the program to concentrate on children

with special needs. We only had a few slots where families could request a free

starter kit. The starter kit comes with a dvd for the kids, and instruction dvd

for parents, and flash cards that have pictures that slide in so you can hide

them if you want. Then each dvd set comes with more flash cards. You can

purchase the whole set from our Usborne Books Representative at

http://www.imdsa.com/usborne.htm (just click on the logo)

I have to emailed our Usborne Books rep to see if she can make these available

individually. (She is very sick right now, so I don't know when I will hear from

her) Right now they are in the complete set and it is not really a bad price,

but I understand that people may want to just buy one at a time!

So...that is the Long " short " of it!

Kristy

mariah2mom wrote:

-can you tell me about this DVD I was wondering if it would improve

h's vocabulary she says alot of words actually the first part of

words, but I know what she is saying she does like signing time so I

wanted to find out more about this

angie

-- In MosaicDS , " Lagonigro " wrote:

>

> Hi Kristy.

>

> Well Mia just loves the DVD and flash cards. She isn't much of a TV

watcher-I don't put it on too often for her, but she is glued to the

TV when she hears the music to the DVD. She is not reading the words

yet, but she does say baby when she sees the baby. When she sees the

seal at the zoo, she says " shhhh " , because that's what I used to say

to her with my finger against my mouth when we first started watching

the DVD!!

> We watch it about 1-2 times per day, depending on much time we have,

so I am patiently waiting for her to say the word before hearing it!!!

>

> Kim Mom to Mia 15 mos MDS

> Your Baby Can Read

>

>

> For all of those who are in the Your Baby Can Read program, PLEASE

send me an update today! We need to include your updates in our May

newsletter MOSAIC WORLD for our brag book! If you have a picture of

your child, please send that to me in email too.

> My email address is imdsapresident@...

(Please do not try to send this to the egroup. The egroup can not

accept pictures)

> Thanks

> Kristy

>

>

[Guest guest]

Donna, that is why I homeschool. I am advocate of homeschooling - of course, I

understand, that it is not right for every family - my daughter did attend

public school and had some wonderful teachers - but when you hit a wall and see

that they are not learning - don't be afraid to homeschool if you can. I joined

our local homeschool group here and have even started a special needs group

within our homeschool group for parents who are homeschooling special needs

children. Hope you can get things worked out.

Charlotte

Re: Your Baby Can Read

Sorry - I haven't had time to check my email every day, so I am responding a

little late for the newsletter. Still wanted to let you know Adam has completely

mastered this dvd. We can even set all of the flash card out and say " Find

Tiger " and he will point to it. I am really proud of him.

We are having a lot of problems at his school right now. All of the

PROFESSIONALS involved in his education say this is nothing to be impressed

over. He is just memorizing things and can really put them into practice. I am

not a reading teacher, but to me reading is a lot about memorizing things.

Yesterday, we got a note about how Adam doesn't know his shapes or colors. He

has known his shapes for at least a year or more and this dvd has taught him all

of his colors. We practice every day - I know he knows them. This is so

frustrating.

Donna - gram to Adam mds and the girls

Kristy Colvin <imdsapresident@...<mailto:imdsapresident%40imdsa.com>>

wrote:

For all of those who are in the Your Baby Can Read program, PLEASE send me an

update today! We need to include your updates in our May newsletter MOSAIC WORLD

for our brag book! If you have a picture of your child, please send that to me

in email too.

My email address is

imdsapresident@...<mailto:imdsapresident%40imdsa.com> (Please do not try

to send this to the egroup. The egroup can not accept pictures)

Thanks

Kristy