Comments on: Glenn Doman’s method of teaching a baby to read: in brief

By: Agila

Agila — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:02:31 +0000

Hey,I have started this Glenn doman method of teaching for my 3 yr old daughter. The problem what I am facing is she is not sitting in one place and concentrating.. Should I still continue or??? She brings all her toys to the room where I make her to sit.

By: manar

manar — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:37:16 +0000

Hi,i have a big problem with time to do this method,my son is a boy with down syndrome (3 years old) goes to a day care every day and he has sometimes sessions for speech therapy, and i can not find enough time to repeat each set of words 3 times per day,any suggestions?thanks and good luck

By: Alenka

Alenka — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 03:47:30 +0000

Isabella, the main rule of Doman is to “stop before your baby wants to stop”. If your baby can tolerate only 1-2 cards, it’s better to show her one, and leave her wanting for more. In theory it sounds great, but in reality, I’ve noticed that at different ages, different periods of the day, different moods it works differently. Even as a stay at home mom, I don’t have the luxury of showing the cards whenever I please – I have very few time slots and if it doesn’t happen at that time, it isn’t happening at all. So I’ve come up with many other ways to attract my baby’s attention and for each of my babies a different method worked. This is a list of things that can be tried to make watching the cards more appealing (and speeding up – how fast you show them really helps a great deal as well!!!): http://www.childandme.com/runaway-baby-alternative-ways-showing-cards-active-child/

By: Alenka

Alenka — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 03:27:48 +0000

I think 6 year olds can do great with it. Besides, you are not losing anything by trying, don’t you? Give it a try, show some cards (they no longer need to be big and her reaction is a lot easier to “translate”). If your daughter really dislikes it, there are still many other options available. With a kid of that age, I’d try A.P.P.’s cards – they are already small, with a small picture at the back. And, obviously, free. My older one is 6 right now and he still loves to look at sets of those cards for the more difficult words. Check this article: it has links to download the cards and some suggestions by A.P.P. on how to use them.
http://www.childandme.com/combination-of-doman-and-phonics/

Also, I’ve got to say that with my little one I am using them more as Doman cards – add/remove/reshuffle. My older one just gets a set for a few weeks, I am reading it to him once or twice in the beginning and he reads it to me by himself. Both of them really love it.

By: Izabela

Izabela — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 02:05:52 +0000

Hi, I just found out about this method, I wish I had known about it much earlier as my 6-year- old daughter is struggling with her reading skills and I spent hours each day trying to help her out… is there any hope for a 6 year old with this method if I start right away?

By: Megan

Megan — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:28:57 +0000

Hi, I am a full-time working mother and I have a 16 months old daughter. I introduced the flashcards method of reading since she was 8 months old. I play two sets per day and recently I noticed that she get distracted after 3-4 word cards sometimes even 1-2. She just looks away and keeps asking book. Then, I said to her, “Do you want card?” She’s shaking her head and answer book. Just to make sure that she understood my sentence I asking her another way, “Do you want book?” she’s knocking her hear and said yes. I tried to attract her attention by letting her touch the card after the sessions. My questions, shall I give her the book (the book full of pictures)? What should I do? I really need advice and help, please. Thank you.

By: Alenka

Alenka — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:28:15 +0000

Teaching baby to speak/read/write in all the languages that you know is a fantastic idea! I get to meet lots of people who are already successfully doing it, and my own little ones are fluent in both English and Russian, and understand quite a bit of Spanish. My 6 year old recently surprised me by starting to read in Spanish, which I didn’t know he could. Check this section for articles/disscussions/materials that can help you to get started!

http://www.childandme.com/how-teach-your-kids-foreign-languages/

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:11:11 +0000

Hi I have a big confusion, hopefully somebody could give an advice. I plan to use the teaching method with my baby, I am still pregnant, but the thing is… my first language is Spanish, second English and I also speak German, my Husband is German and we live in Germany right now, so spanish and german are our priorities but according with I have read it is possibly to teach various languages at the same time, and I have seen it with some friends kids, but they don not read, just talk mixing languages, what about teaching how to read on 3 languages??? and just a new born baby?? Another questions would be if I should use pictures together the words as they recommend for foreign languages. I guess the same questions apply for teaching encyclopedia knowledge… I love the method but I feel confused. Thanks!! and good luck to all

By: Alenka

Alenka — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 19:59:29 +0000

3 sets at the busy time of exploration at 16 months – that’s terrific! If your baby gets distracted after 3-4 word-cards, I’d limit each set to 3 words. At Doman books they insist to stop before your baby wants to stop, so it is better to show less then it is to bore him. You can add the word-cards back later, when his interest grows. It can be frustrating – we are creating the words, have such a hard time fitting it into our schedule, put all our lives on hold… and the baby seems to lose interest. But its important to remember, that babies learn only when they are interested, so keeping up with their level of interest and spicing it up with tons of hugs, kisses and excitement coming from mommy – are all crucial. Good luck! Share with us, how it goes!

On a different note: Doman’s course must have been so exciting! How did you like it? What it was like?