Re: Teaching basics--Baby Bumblebee videos

[Guest guest]

Our daughter expanded her vocabulary considerably and learned all her basics

through the Baby Einstein and Baby Bumblebee videos. The Baby Bumblebee videos,

especially, are more effective than the earlier Baby Einstein videos (Mozart,

Bach, Beethoven, etc.) because their focus is on information and not

entertainment. Our SLP loved them, and I highly recommend them.Check out their

recommendations in their Autism/PDD section. Later, I sold our set on ebay, so

you might actually find someone selling theirs, too, and save a bit of cash.

Here are links. Hope they work.

www.babybumblebee.com

www.babyeinstein.com

Best,

Shanna Philipson

Re: Teaching basics

My daughter is learning her colors. We are using balls. I toss her a ball and

then use the sign for the color as well as saying it. has no speech but

she has learned yellow, and red and we are going to work on green next. She will

sign the color as soon as I toss it to her and no she can not catch the ball at

all because not only does she have autism but she has albinism and is legally

blind. Once I learned that loves balls I thought what about the colored

balls hanging in the bag in the garage. has also begun signing animals

she has cow and pig down. I had to laugh the last time we were at my brothers

who is named Tim and for some reason my youngest son called him Uncle Pig and

everyone laughed so he has continued to call him this so when wanted Tim

she signed pig. LOL Tim looked at me to ask what she wanted and I took great joy

in telling him that she wanted Pig. LOL Our children are unique aren't they?

Sheri

Rhoda Boyd <rboydcyberus (DOT) ca> wrote: Hi everyone! I'm at a dead end here

trying to figure out how to teach my son the basics. Dr. G said to go back to

the beginning and teach him colours, numbers, letters, etc. but I am just not

successful trying to teach him the way I did my younger kids when they were

first starting out. I've tried some Winnie the Pooh softward (preschool level)

and he enjoys playing on it but not in the traditional way that you would if you

understood the games. He just clicks away doing trial and error until he clicks

on the right thing and the game moves forward. I've tried sitting with him,

doing hand over hand, explaining things very simply, showing flash cards

alongside the game, anything I can think of to get him to " get it " , but I

haven't had success.

Does anyone have any other ideas? Any software titles that helped the light go

on? My son is not functioning at a high level (he is 5 1/2, has about fifteen

words, receptive language is so-so) so anyone with a lower functioning child who

has been through this and has any suggestions would be of great help.

Thanks,

Rhoda

[Guest guest]

Let me second Shanna on the Baby Bumblebee videos. I never tried the Baby

Einstein, so I can't compare, but the Baby Bumblebee videos are really

great. My son used to count everything to 20. If there were 3 things he'd

count them over and over until he got to 20; he just didn't get the concept.

After watching the Baby Bumblebee Numeracy video a couple of times, he'd

count 3 things and stop at " 3 " . Their verb videos are also terrific. They

also have Opposites, Colors, Alphabet, and basic noun videos. Each video

concentrates on about 20 words. These really helped us when he was first

starting out with his verbal communication and also, as I mentioned, with

some academic concepts. Check them out.

April