Every father wants the best for his children. I have two wonderful daughters: Aleka, age 16, and Keelin, age 13, both excellent students and well-rounded teenagers. One reason they have achieved so much in their lives is that they had the advantage of learning to read while still babies.

When Aleka was born, I was a teacher for San Diego California Unified School District and had already been accepted into the Ph.D. program at Indiana University. My research was focused primarily on how adults learn, but I had acquired knowledge about baby brain development. When Aleka was three months old, I wrote words on paper plates and showed them to her. Encouraged by her attention, I designed a home video for her to watch and interact with. As her interest and development grew, so did my commitment to this exciting new early learning system I found myself creating.

Aleka’s progress was extraordinary. At the age of nine months, she could read thirty words; at one year, 400 words. By the age of two, she was able to read twenty books a day (mostly first-grade to third-grade level) and at age four, possessed the phonetic ability of a twelfth grader. However, as a scientist, I needed to replicate this success in order to be certain that Aleka wasn’t a unique case.

When Keelin began recognizing words, I knew that my multi-sensory approach to teaching reading would work with other babies. That realization set me on the path to share this educational breakthrough with parents everywhere. I have since devoted my professional life to the study of how infants learn, and have helped thousands of babies around the world to read.

Watching Aleka and Keelin grow up and excel in school has made me very content. They have both maintained 4.0 GPA averages and each has skipped at least one grade. And they are typical American teenagers—except that they can read at a level most people cannot unless they are taught as a baby

I can assure you that the best time–and the most natural time–to teach children to read is when they are babies. My own children, and thousands of others I have taught through my baby reading DVD system, Your Baby Can Read!, continue to enjoy the great gifts that early learning can bring. –Dr. Robert C. Titzer