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Summary: There are better ways to accomplish the same thing
Review: I read this book before my first child was born. She is now 5 years old. I did do some of the reading cards and also some cards from other books by Doman. What I have found, both from personal experience and from watching people in an internet club complain about the same thing over and over is that this bores babies. It is also practically impossible to keep up with for almost any mother, particularly one with more than one child. Kids love the cards for a few days, and then they just don't see why you're making such a big deal out of some red words on cardboard.A parent could spend thousands of dollars and hours making or buying the materials to teach your child to read or do math or other things the Doman way. Or you can teach your child phonics using a good, straightforward phonics program like the one in Alpha-Phonics by Sam Blumfield - ... My daughter (and son, age 3) are very smart. My daughter reads fluently and can do second-grade math. She loves books and wants to learn everything. I credit this mostly to reading her ordinary books, not specially designed cards shown in a precise way. Teaching her phonics opened up the world of reading to her. It was simple, unstressful and wonderful...she started to read at age 3.5yrs. Don't waste your time and energy on Doman. He has some good ideas about the possibilities and will help you gain respect for what children CAN learn, but don't follow this neurotic program. Do a search on the web and find discussions about Doman's methods and you will see that people struggle with this more than they praise it.
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Summary: As a mother and educator, I know it works!
Review: I started the reading program when my son was 10 months old. I did it religiously. When he was old enough I combined it with phonics. I also kept the captioning on our TV all the time. At 4 yrs old we found out that our son has many disabilities. They involve math, ADHD, visual perception, hypotonia, etc., etc. When we had testing done the doctors told us that the area of the brain that was underdeveloped involved reading and math. At 5 yrs old our son was tested in reading and scored, fifth yr., seventh month. The doctors were baffeled & couldn't explain it. I can. Early intervention and Glen Doman's reading program. We changed the pathways in the brain. Wish we had used the math program too.
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Summary: IT WORKS!!!
Review: I started this method with my daughter when she was around 15 months old. By the time she was 22 months old, she read her first book. She never stopped reading after that and she did so because she liked it. By the time she was ready for the first grade, her school wanted to push her into the third grade. We didn't think that was a good idea socially for her. My daughter has enjoyed a rich academic experience to this day becasue of this simple, fun approach to reading at an early age. She is now a Freshman on scholorship at The University of Penn.
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Summary: Good Ideas, Bad Techniques
Review: I taught myself to read at age three. I figured it out phonetically...essentially teaching myself phonics. The authors, while making brilliant observations on how much earlier children should be learning, advocate a "whole word" method, where the child memorizes the shape of a word, instead of learning to sound it out. This leaves him with the same disadvantages which held back all writing until people moved beyond pictographs. Whole word methods like the authors advocate here are a significant disadvantage for the child, leaving him ill-equipped to deal with new words and ideas. He has never seen the word before, thus it is an alien shape to him and derails his train of thought. Teaching him phonics later will not help. This is because his mind will have the inferior technique hard-wired into it, and he will tend to use that method by default, having to artificially switch when encountering a new word. The authors are correct about the ability of children to absorb early learning in this way. The authors, overall, hit upon very important points about how much earlier children should be taught, compared to how they are stifled by ignorance today, being taught too little, too late. People who claim that it is possible to be taught to read "too early" have no valid arguments to carry their case. But the methods used in this book are erroneous. On the other hand, the same authors produced "How to Teach Your Baby Math", which is a very impressive book, using techniques which actually have the opposite net result of the flawed methods they advocate for reading.
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Summary: You may be surprised by early reading
Review: I used an older edition of Doman's book over twenty years ago to teach my children to read. My first son started at twenty months, my second at fifteen months. Both were reading fluently before age 2 1/2 and speed-reading by age 3. Their childhood was enriched by their ability to read widely and at length. Both have been exceptional students. I would recommend Doman's book highly. Doman insists that teaching very young children to read can only succeed if carried out with great pleasure. Doing so is not difficult
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I used this book to teach my son to read, starting at age seven months. By the time he was two years old, he had read over a hundred childrens books. When he was a Junior in high school, he achieved the highest math plus verbal SAT score in the history of the school.
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Summary: My 27 month old read his first words out loud after 5 days!
Review: I wanted to give my son the best opportunity to develop his mind and his potential. We began the plan 5 days ago and I was overjoyed when my son (2yrs 3mo) was excited to learn words. He loves to learn, and he hates it when we stop a session. He read his first words out loud this morning after I tried to put the flash cards away. He took the first one out of my hand and read "rug", and put it aside. When I asked him what the next one said, he correctly answered "yes". This was the reverse of the order in which we had just gone through a list of about 12 words. I can't wait to get home from work to do more words with him. Anyone who has a 2 minute block of time several times a day can get started using the methods in this book.
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Summary: It worked for me...
Review: I was taught to read by my mother using this method from 9 months old. She decided to try it out to see if its claims had any basis in fact. Despite attempts by health visitors and other members of the family to dissuade her; she continued. I can assure you that (for me at least) the method worked spectacularly well. Reading, has for me, offered a whole new depth of experience to life and WITHOUT DOUBT this was the greatest gift that my mother has given me. Now I have discovered I am soon to become a father for the first time the very first thing I am getting is a copy of this book.
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Summary: If you think this book is great the seminar is 10x better.
Review: If reading the book makes sense which it did to me it, the seminar is awesome. I've read 5 of Domans books and been to 80 hours of lectures. They know so much about brain growth that this book is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Summary: Brilliant layman¿s' book on how to make your child a genius!
Review: If this isn't the most important book ever written on developing a child's potential, I like to see the one that's better. This simply written easy to follow 'how to' manual shows you step by step the way to multiply your baby's' intelligence and ability to read...and when I say baby, I mean baby; 6 months and up.
Does it work? Well over ten years ago when my daughter was nine months old, I used this method on her, much to her delight. In first grade she could read smoothly (no stops and starts) with expression. In second grade she tested Highly Gifted (that's genius) In third grade she could read college level and now at age 13years old, she's in all honor classes As you might surmise, she has a lot of self esteem.
I took the time to write this review in the hope it will help parents help their children achieve their fullest potential.
Love and best wishes,
-Arlene AKA Mo
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