Your Baby's Brain

How Sylla-Bear--the singing phonics bear--can make kids smart from the start

Parents must help their babies learn to process speech sounds. Birth is the time to start helping your child to become "sound-smart." When babies learn to detect the sounds that make up spoken words, they're on their way to becoming phonologically aware. In other words, an early start in being sound-smart sets the stage for every step kids have to take in learning to read.

So, if we want our children to succeed, we must teach them to read intentionally, intensively, and proactively, because the brain begins building the foundations for reading from birth. Literacy begins in the cradle, not kindergarten.

Parents, if you struggled with reading and spelling during your school years, chances are your children are at an elevated risk of experiencing the same frustrations and difficulties. What can you do proactively to equip your kids to overcome reading difficulties before they start formal schooling?

And here's what I'm getting at: Your baby's brain makes 1 million connections between neurons every second of every day for the first three years. Babies' brains create neural connections to build the networks they need to wire the brain for all the functions that make us feel, move, and learn. For example, babies start building the networks for lifelong literacy success in those first three years. The best time to lay the foundations for reading is duri

This study illustrates that parents should proactively and intentionally create early linguistic environments that train their baby's reading brain. Parents and caregivers should sing, speak, and read to infants as often as possible. And instead of screen time, parents can use a vital tool such as ScholarSkills Sylla-Bear. 

Did you know that reading difficulties are often inherited? If you had trouble learning to read due to traits of ADHD or dyslexia, chances are that your children will also struggle with reading.

Babies as early as two months old learn language from rhythmic syllabic structures and individual differences predicted later language development outcomes.

baby undergoing brain wave testing Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Trinity College of Dublin assert that babies acquire...