Amazing Story of Baby Learning to Read With Signing Time!
This is an incredible story of a 17 month old baby who can read! This first aired on March 10th on the Today Show. Signing Time family Katy & Michael Barrett shared their experience with their daughter, Elizabeth, learning to read when she was just 13-months old. They contribute a large part of this to introducing her at a very young age to Signing Time. Both parents are speech/language pathologists and started teaching her sign language along with spoken language when she was very young.
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They, like most parents, read to her often (but never taught her how to read). The only television she watches is a Signing Time DVD which teaches kids sign language. Sign language is of course a visual language system and I think the act of learning sign language must enhance an individuals visual perception and visual memory skills. These skills are necessary for reading. I completely agree with Katy and Michael Barret that there must be a coorelation between their daughter being taught sign language by her parents and by watching these Signing Time DVD's from a very young age to her extraordinary reading abilities at only 17 months old!
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Filed under Birth to 3 years old, Language Development, Other Milestones, Sign Language by Tami
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Hi there,, just looking around,… My 5 year old boy is attending a Speech Therapy for almost 2 years now,, Sometimes he can say a 5 word sentence.. His progress is slow.. but we keep on going..
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That is awesome!!! It just brings a silly smile to one's face - babies are incredible - there is really no limit to what the can learn.
Thanks for sharing!
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We are huge Signing Time fans here! I didn't do sign much with my 1st child and he was speech delayed. I ended up finding Signing Time on our local PBS staion when my 2nd child was born (they are 25 months apart) and watching it helped both kids so much!
We are lucky that Signing Time is on 5 days a week in our area! It's the one show that my kids will be quiet and actually sit and watch.
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