When and how should we start teaching our children to read?

"During infancy, children learn language skills naturally and at a higher level than at any other time in their lives. I developed this new multi-sensory reading approach to take advantage of the child's natural window of opportunity for learning language."

-Dr. Robert C. Titzer, Ph.D.

The most natural time to learn any aspect of language is during the infant and toddler years. There is a "natural window of opportunity" for learning language where it is easier for children to learn to understand and speak our language at a high level. During this window of opportunity, between the ages of 3 months and 5 years, they can also learn the written word naturally and easily.

Dr. Titzer has developed a new method of teaching reading that could change how and when our children learn to read. Normally, children don't start learning to read until age 5 or 6 years old, but the natural window of opportunity begins to close around age 4.

We encourage parents to be actively involved in teaching their children language since the window of opportunity for learning language begins to close before children enter school.
In the first years of a child's life, tens of thousands of synaptic connections are made each second in the brain, opening the door for increased learning capacity.
Long term research shows that children who are taught to read earlier tested at higher levels than children of the same IQ and family background who are taught at a later age.
Imagine the benefits of confidence and increased knowledge as a result of your child learning to read within this window of opportunity!
The Your Baby Can Read! program encourages infants and toddlers to naturally learn the written word at the same time as they are learning the spoken word.
Dr. Titzer's research suggests that infants and toddlers can learn to read at very high levels using a multi-sensory approach where they see the words at the same time they hear the words. He also suggests that the child do some physical activity related to the words. This should allow more connections in the brain among the visual, auditory, and somatosensory areas of the brain according to the latest theories of brain development.