Why not? There myriad of options available! However, if you are worrying for early TV/computer exposure, read more at Can TV/computer be harmful or helpful for kids development?
Power Point Presentations
Special Computer Programs
Websites
DVDs
Toys
If you are looking for multimedia solutions for teaching Spanish, read more in Teaching Spanish: resources.
The links to files and further resources are available in the Jump Start Teaching Your Baby To Read description of Glenn Doman's method
For initial Math operations - quantities, simple division, multiplication, subtraction and addition operations I used the plugin into Power Point by Matt Hudson. It also allows to randomize the existing presentations, even if they contain pairs (word on one slide, picture on the next).
Once we got to three-four member equations, someone recommended the following program:
Geenogee Prodigy Reader - Prodigy Math CD
I've tried the Math section of this CD, the equations. Looks good. You can find more information about it at the seller's site and there is a video about a cd. They don't have any information about math component at their site, but math is included to the same cd. I liked that it was actually counting the number of times to show the lessonnette per day for each user that you enter: pretty neat. Unfortunately it doesn't have inequalities (4+1 not equals 6+8), so we'd have to go back to cards for that.
I was not really happy with their "Reading" program: I find the text too small and the options too limiting. I didn't find a way to customize their list of words and really wish I could insert pictures. May be I just didn't spend enough time with the program. My son was completely turned off by flashing small words, so to get his attention, I just started creating my own lists of words in Power Point, with sound effects and loud pronunciation of every word (you can download them in our Jump Start Teaching To Read article). Now he is really excited about English words again!
Rosetta Stone Software is the most highly recommended by other parents and by Doman's institutes program for learning other languages. I am totally in love with it. The vocabulary and simple phrases come naturally, are easy to remember, and fun to learn! I still feel that I need some simple grammar book, since grammar rules elude and mystify me with just sentences. Still, this program is the best thing I've seen.
Spanish language ebook by Patricia Parten: I don't know anybody who has used it already, so if you have any comments, please share!
For web sites where you can get more power point presentations or other similar resources go to Jump Start Teching Your Baby To Read article. Below you can find a list of sites where you child can click himslef, enjoying the internet based learning experience:
I personally haven't tried many of these, since my baby doesn't watch TV at all (at two he actually was still convinced that remote controls are cell phones), but others have recommended the following dvds:
Special thanks to Laurie Tiemens for comparing Love and Learning and Dr. Titzer dvd sets:
One side note about the Titzer videos: don't think that just because your child goes all the way through all his videos that he/she will be reading like Dr. Titzer's daughter did as a baby. Aleka Titzer saw many more words than are shown on the videos before she could read as she did as a three-year-old.
The LAL series has lots and lots more words in it. I think it will get your child further in reading than the Titzer videos.
Doman uses homemade flashcards so the cost would depend on how long you do the program.
The LAL is much more expensive than the Titzer videos.
Yes, the video programs are easier to start because you don't need to prepare any materials.
Quickest win? Hmmm. I think they're about the same.
Offers most lasting result? If you are comparing the Doman method in which you only show as many words as are shown on the videos then probably you will have the same result with all. But the beauty of the Doman method is that it is easy to show many, many more words than either of the other two programs. Many children (like my daughter) who are taught via the Doman method actually figure out phonics on their own. The thing I appreciate most about the Doman method is the way it has affected my daughter's thinking abilities. She is very, very smart - definitely smarter than her 7 older siblings who did not get the benefit of a Doman program. She's learned all kinds of stuff all on her own. She's learned her address and phone number by herself without drill of any kind. She's learned how to say 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-digit numbers on her own without instruction. Lots more stuff like that.
Hope that helps!
Monki See Monki Doo is a learning system designed to teach reading to small babies and toddlers. By using our playful DVD's, flash cards, and/or books, your child will be well on their way to reading. Your child will laugh and play their way to literacy with Howie and Skip.
What I absolutely loved was that the words are not animated, like in LeapFrog, they don't have any distracting shadows and backgrounds, images on the words themselves... it is just so Doman to show large red words and to read it loud and clear. The words are followed by a small demonstration: kids pointing to the body parts, or an animal (if the word was an animal), or a puppet show.
What I loved the most about the video is the amount of comments. My major complain about Baby Einstein videos is that they are mostly silent. On the rare occasions when I was showing Baby Einsteins to my son, I'd usually sit next to him and comment every image, every action, every animal. "Monkey See" does that for you: it has plenty of good comments on actions and imagery, plenty of songs and poems that are read nicely and clearly, so mom's work would really amount only to hugs for the baby who is watching it.
My son's reaction: he is almost three. He has outgrown it (unfortunately!). He was interested for the first part of the show, but he is watching a lot more advanced videos by now and this is for the little babies. So I just turned on the slide show of the words that is available at the end. He was glad to review the old words that he has seen before, and I was glad there was such a simple way to show just the words themselves!
In all honesty, if I ever could do a DVD for my kid, that's how I'd like to do it. I was so charmed that I'll be definitely showing it to my number #2 one who'll hopefully join us soon and I'll be looking forward for more videos from this series.
I am going to invest in getting all the languages DVD's.
Here is more of a description below:
The Complete Lyric Language® CD & DVD
French • German • Italian • Spanish
Penton's dynamic live-action music video – with bilingual lyrics
subtitled on-screen.
Now available in this complete, 70-minute DVD format. Also includes
an audio CD with all 21 bilingual songs with a full color Lyric Book
in U-print format on DVD
U-print lyric Book is on the DVD
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