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Teaching Basics

• Introduction to Early Learning
• The Fundamentals of Early Learning
• Why is Early Learning Important?
• The Survival Kit for Teaching Babies
• Methods for Teaching Babies
• 7-Day Lesson Sampler
• A Recipe for Success
• The Science of Early Learning
• What is Right Brain Learning?

Early Learning: for & against

• The Arguments For & Against
  Early Learning
• "Babies can't be taught"
• "Teaching will harm the child"
• "Teaching is pointless"

Flash Card FAQs

• Introduction to Flash Cards
• How are Flash Cards Used with Babies?
• How Fast Should Flash Cards Be Shown?

About the Experts

• Brent Logan
• Rene Van de Carr
• Thomas Verny
• Glenn Doman
• Makoto Shichida
• Robert Titzer
• Timothy Kailing

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• Babies and Television
• Babies and Computers
• Obama & Early Childhood Education
• Books for Parents
• Books for Babies
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Your Baby's Language Skills

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For your baby, language acquisition is an innate skill - babies' brains are programmed to learn language.

The critical window for speech development is from birth to age three.

Here are some milestones to look out for:

• By his first birthday your baby can produce most of the vowel sounds of English, and about half of the consonants.
• Between 12 and 18 months, your baby slowly accrues new vocabulary items.
• At around 18 months, your baby's vocabulary hits a critical mass and she acquires one new word every day or two.
• By the time he's six, your baby understands around 13,000 words.

If intelligence is defined as the ability to learn, then babies are geniuses. Her brain has such high plasticity that for your baby, language learning is effortless. Simply by providing positive mental stimulation, you can help strengthen the neural pathways that lay the foundation for her cognitive, emotional and social intelligence.