Baby Babble - Speech-Enhancing DVD for Babies and Toddlers

A friend of mine actually recommended this DVD because i was a little concerned with my son not talking. My son now repeats the sounds from Babby Babble and i just bought the second Baby Babble that will teach him more words. Im so happy my friend recommended me this DVD and would defintely recommend it to anyone else.

Just wanted to say FANTASTIC PRODUCT!!! My oldest is now 5 and she started with the original Baby Babble at about 6 months and her vocabulary EXPLODED by 1. We constantly received complements on how articulate she is. Even now, we are amazed at how well she is able to express her feeling, emotions and thoughts through language. She communicates so effectively and her vocabulary and understanding of speech is amazing. We dropped the ball with our 2nd daughter (now 2 yrs old) and it shows. Her language skills are nowhere close to her sisters and we feel we played a large roll in that by not challenging her, not playing the DVD for her and relying to much on her picking it up from her big sis. We just started Baby Babble with our 7 month old about 2 weeks ago and both my 7 month old and 2 year old are TOTALLY engaged and LOVING the DVD. My 2 year old mimics the sounds and the dancing of the marionette bear (lol). My 7 month old in just 1.5 weeks is now playing with her tongue and making more sounds. It has also reminded us as parents of our role and we are doing a lot of language play with the kids, sound consonant repetition ect. THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!!!! FYI, I just placed an order on Amazon for Baby Babble 2 and 3. Im hoping my 2 year old will benefit as she just started realllly talking about 2-3 months ago and pronunciation is a struggle. I realize its Your Baby Can Read is a totally different type of learning tool, but I wanted to point out that my older girls have never been captivated by those DVDs. Even when they were brand new. These DVDs collect dust. Another FYI: When I first received the Baby Babble DVD I was TOTALLY underwhelmed by the packaging and then thought I had been cheated out of my money with the low budget (in my original judgment) quality of the film. Then I watched my oldest daughter be completely captivated by it. She watched it daily. We would keep it on loop playing in the toy room and she would watch it while playing with her toys. There was no fancy animation or graphics, just real people and real toys in front of a black back drop. SO basic, yet SO perfect.

My little one has been watching this since he was 5 months old and he is now 8 months. He absolutely loves it. Its colorful and bright and keeps him very interested. He doesnt have any developmental issues that Im aware of so far, I just read all the great reviews and decided to get it. My baby has never cared to watch any of the other DVDs his brother owns like Veggie Tales or Baby Einstein. However whenever I put this on he is immediately engaged. It has become a lifesaver when he gets really fussy. I can put this on and the fussing stops for the entire duration. I have to admit the first time we played it my husband and I found ourselves very much engaged ourselves. I really cant tell if it does anything for his speech development as he is still so young but I would much rather have him watch this than some of the other stuff thats out there for kids.

We have a 2 year old with CAS. He loves the videos and weve seen increased vocal play and increased word attempts since hes started viewing them.

I not only see the benefits of this video as a speech pathologist, but also as a mother. I recently purchased this video for my 14-month-old, and he absolutely LOVES it! None of his other videos hold his attention like this one does. It did not take him long to start making the sounds that they use with the toys, like pop, pop, pop and he genuinely tries to interact with the women and toys on the screen. The women who created this video are experts on speech and language development; they have done a wonderful job demonstrating techniques to use with children with speech/language delays and typically-developing children as well. While the video holds my sons attention, I know that I must implement the techniques with him throughout the day, and not let the learning stop when the video is turned off. That is a great feature of this video- the SLPs give a tutorial for parents on how to implement these techniques. Also, I often sit with him and make the same sounds and faces that the women/toys do. He loves that I find the video as interesting as he does, and likes to make the sounds/faces with me. This helps to make it even more of an interactive experience instead of parking him in front of the TV and leaving him there (although I understand, sometimes we moms need a second to ourselves to get something done as well!). I have read some reviews where parents found the women creepy. However, the reason the women stand so still and are dressed in either black or white with the same colored background is to accent their facial expressions/movements so that children will focus on them instead of a distracting background. Most children will not be creeped out by this unless they sense that their parents find it unusual. Children like playing and making silly noises and faces; most kids enjoy this. While the video quality is better in the Baby Einstein videos, I have found them to be much less engaging and I cant get my son to watch them. I figure that I can deal with less-than-perfect video quality as long as the content is high-quality and beneficial for my childs development. I highly recommend this video!

My 2 year old son has been in speech therapy for the past 8 months. I have seen very little progress. He has about 15 words that he uses consistently, refuses to sign, and does not imitate sounds. We have seen specialist after specialist and everyone tells us that it is just a speech delay. After reading a blog, where a mom shouted praises for this dvd, I ordered because there was nothing to lose. It arrived in the mail while I was at work, and my husband opened up the box and put the dvd in for my son. When I came home my son was watching the dvd for the second time through, and was sitting, completely engaged, repeating everything! I was blown away! I immediately videoed him and texted it to therapist! He was finally repeating and signing the words weve been working on for 8 months!!! That was just a week ago. Hes been watching the dvd daily and miraculously his speech has improved tremendously. It is like the video made it all finally click! He called me mom 4 times today! He has never ever said the word mom before. Ive already ordered the other 2 dvds in the series.

Hepful for my nephew

The grand kids loved it from the very first time I played the DVD

My 1 year old loves this dvd! She is captivated by it. I dont know why people complain about it, saying its cheesy. What do they expect? A hollywood production?! It is 2 specch therapists, that designed this to show kids what they teach in their line of work. I got my daughter one of the toys from the video, the old fisher price phones from like 30 years ago. The other day she was talking on the phone and I realized it was from what she saw from the dvd. How would she know how to use a rotary, when we only use cell phones?! Collectively, she has seen that for approximately 1 minute and she got it! Crazy! I already bought the 2nd one, cant wait to see how she absorbs that one!

My grandson, who has apraxia, loves this video