| | |  | DVDs | Home » » Baby Babble - Speech-Enhancing DVD for Babies and Toddlers | | | | | | | Description: | | Baby Babble (TM) - Speech Enhancing DVD is a captivating experience that exposes babies and toddlers to age-specific sounds and words. Little ones will love the simple sign language, amusing facial exercises, and beginning speech sounds and words while colorful toys and carefully arranged music stimulate their imagination. Parents will learn how to encourage speech and language at home in an educational tutorial designed by pediatric speech therapists. The first video of its kind, Baby Babble(TM) combines playful, enriching experiences with clinically-inspired speech and language techniques. This video is perfect for beginning babblers through late talkers. | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Made by Speech Therapists | | Director:
| Talking Child | | Format:
| NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Talking Child | | Run Time:
| 45 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| April 30, 2004 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 352 reviews |
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101 of 104 found the following review helpful:
 Focuses on speech and communication.Sep 15, 2004
By COmomof2
I think that this video is different from other videos such as Baby Einstein, Brainy Baby, etc. because it focuses on speech and communication rather than language. What I mean by that is that our other videos seem to just throw out a bunch of words and hope that kids pick them up. Instead, this video takes fun sounds from toys, forms them into simple vowel and consonant sounds, and then shows how to make the sounds. So, for example, it takes a fire engine sound, transitions the sound into a narrator saying ah-ah-ah, e-oo-e-oo-e-oo, and then later shows the narrator's mouth making the vowel sounds. My son picked up the sounds before he started saying the words. I noticed that the words that the video uses are simpler than other videos use, words like ball, up, and down. They are the words that a child would commonly say first in speech development. Also, my son picked up a couple of signs from the video. Even though he can't say "eat" yet, he now signs "eat" instead of feeling like he has to whine. The video is made by a couple of speech pathologists, and it has a tutorial at the end that demonstrates techniques that they use. I picked up a few things that helped. Now I try to teach my son sounds before words. I changed his environment to make him communicate; I put his favorite couple of toys in containers so that he has to come to me and ask me to open the containers for him. All in all, I think this video is really good. It is a lot different from my other videos. My son and I have learned from it.
112 of 116 found the following review helpful:
Baby Babble for our autistic son - GREATJul 11, 2005
By Adrienne P. Robertiello
"adriennepia"
I, too have a child with autism. He is 4 1/2 now. I have found that this was one of the most thought out videos for speech development. Regarding my son, he just needed to see it repetitively - as most autistic people do. Once, he got used to it, he LOVES it. It now holds my son's attention, as well as my 19 month old who now repeats so much from it and names thsome of the toy props they use - "ball, balloon, bubbles, car, etc.) I thought it was well made and applied. It has a lot of sensory movement which I feel is vary appropriate for our son. The visualization of sounds by the therapists is quite advantageous. My son is fixated on their mouths and tries to mimic their lips. My daughter's speech thrapist has continuously aske to borrow it because other families want to see it,too. I am purchasing two more of them (another for myself and one as a donation to our local library). I like Baby Bumble Bee, too. It is very well made and I think that having children as the interaction is a valuable part of the learning process. It is too advanced for my son, though.
96 of 99 found the following review helpful:
Great tool for our language delayed toddlerOct 13, 2005
By Dianna
We just got our copy yesterday. All three of my children love to watch it (5,3 and 2). My non-verbal 24 mth old laughs and giggles through the whole DVD and most importantly has attempted some of the sounds. We are really impressed with it. In fact, as far as encouraging late talkers, we would rate this one up there with "The Miracle of Mozart Numbers and Shapes". "The Miracle of Mozart" takes a different approach by using kid's voices to entice children to repeat what they hear. This DVD uses Speech Therapists and is really usefull in motivating our non-verbal toddler. It will also show you how to promote language. I can see why the parent of a typical child with normal speech development might not be impressed with this product- but if you are a parent looking for something to help promote language, this is a great choice. Good Luck.
37 of 38 found the following review helpful:
Speech Therapist Gives it 2 Thumbs Up!Oct 12, 2004
By Ellen, SLP for 0-3 yr olds
I have had the video for a few months and have shared it with at least a dozen 1-3 yr olds on my caseload. I have watched their reactions to the video and have been impressed. These children love the video and are verbalizing along with it. I have shared it with age-appropriate children, language delayed children, children with Downs Syndrome, children on the autism spectrum, and more.
Benefits of the video:
+ It has engaging toys that move and keep the child's interest
+ the sounds are easy for the child to say and repeat
+ the children naturally want to interact with the video and repeat the sounds and signs
+ the speech therapists remain completely still during their camera parts so that young children will focus on their mouths (for speaking) or hands (for signing) and are not distracted by outside movements/facial expressions.
+ there are musical toy breaks (segments without speech or signs) so that the child is not overstimulated
+ the included developmental chart is beneficial for parents
+ the parent tutorial gives parents hands-on ideas that they can use on a regular basis.
Things I would change:
- more signs in the sign language tutorial
- a higher age range for slightly older children
This video is well done and I will continue to recommend it to families that I work with.
20 of 20 found the following review helpful:
 Speech-Language Pathologist's ReviewOct 14, 2004
By Michelle Tiek
I am a Speech-Language Pathologist working with children ages birth to three with speech/language delays. I purchased this video as a therapy tool. I have given the video to most of my parents for review. I have found that it really reinforces the strategies that I am using during therapy. Baby Babble is different from other children's videos of this sort because it provides speech/language models to the display of toys instead of just playing music in the background. I have found that many of my clients have enjoyed the video and wanted to view it over and over! The parents report that their children were able to imitate many of the language models provided. I also enjoy that it provided signs to go along with the spoken words. This was especially helpful for those children who are not yet talking. I would recommend Baby Babble for infants/toddlers with or without speech-language delays.
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