How To Teach Your Baby To Read

Thus far the book is very intriguing and the principals are easy to understand and execute. We especially like that the book explains how to create the necessary tools at home, without pressuring you into buying costly accompaniment products. As our son is only 3.5 months old and I have not finished reading the entire book, we cannot confirm yet whether the system is 100% effective, but we will update to 5 stars when he begins to read. I will state that we have made the large flash-cards and have already started using them from 3 months.Our son is already mimicking several words (yes, we have video to prove this). He can say "spider", "i love you", "triangle"; and "square". Although he is not repeating the words just based on the flash cards (he is copying our voices) we do feel that the association will become effective with repeat exposure throughout the first year.

I learned to read using this method in 1977. My two younger siblings learned in the early '80s. Lo these many years later, I'm a junior-high and high-school English teacher, and in August, I found myself working with a special-needs student who read on an early kindergarten level. Glenn Doman to the rescue: I ordered the book, reviewed the program, made some minor adjustments so I could implement it in a junior-high setting, and three months later, my student's vocabulary has jumped from maybe 50 words to nearly 400, and he routinely reads Dr. Seuss books and other children's classics to younger students during the story-hour programs his junior-high literature class hosts. I loaned the book to our special-ed teacher, who read it, bought in, and passed it along to the parent of a kindergartener whose mom flagged me down the other day to tell me her little girl LOVES reading and had learned 20 words in a couple of weeks. God bless Glenn Doman, and God bless his daughter for carrying on his work. Y'all changed my life when I was a toddler, and 42 years later, you're still changing lives.

The absolutely best book. It works!!!

My daughter did the Doman method starting at 6 months. I worked so I only did it once or twice a day for 10 to 15 seconds a session. By the first grade, my daughter read at the 5th-grade level with expression. In fourth grade, she was reading college-level material. In fifth grade, she was voted President of the student body and created a school-wide event on earthquake preparedness. She also had a lot of self-confidence throughout her school years and excelled at public speaking. Today she is a doctor with her own practice. She also writes articles for various online publications and has lectured at various medical facilities. So in my personal experience, Doman is very valuable. It develops the right side of the brain using sight reading which is one of a few very valuable methods of learning.

I bought this book after having read about the method it proposes in an Italian forum.The book is easy to read and understood, at least in my opinion and offers a method I have been testing for the last two weeks with my two little boys, Carlo (6yo) and Vittorio (4 yo) with noticeable success, especially, as indicated in the book, with the younger, who really loves the game and is so quick and eager to learn.Frankly speaking, I see nothing wrong with the method if interpreted properly, in line with the book suggestions, as a game, a very nice one, between parents and children.As said, both mine guys like it a lot, and truly perceive it as a fancy moment with their busy dad, who spends time with them playing a game from which they can learn something new.My personal experience, therefore, though if short, has been successful and pleasant. I can advice to stick to the guidelineso of the book: You and your baby(ies) MUST enjoy it; the practice has NOT to be intended by your child as a boring moment, but a fancy one, with plenty of affection and nearness to his dad, mother or (better) both.If I must find a (very little) defect with the book, is its too long introduction. It took 6 chapters to the authors prior to get deep into the contents (that start in chapter 7, indeed).