Baby Babble - Speech-Enhancing DVD for Babies and Toddlers

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 son's 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 can't 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 child's development.

I highly recommend this video!

My daughter has a medical condition that may cause her to be slow to develop language skills, so I got this DVD, but she seemed pretty bored by it. She is 22 months old--I think I should have gotten it about a year ago for her. So, for her, I think it was a little too remedial and boring. I think it would be good for a younger baby though.

My wife and I were both a little concerned that our 2 1/4 year old daughter was hardly talking. Whilst we felt that our daughter could understand us, we were worried about her silence so after reading previous reviews for this and baby babble 2, we purchased both dvd's.

Well three months later and these worries have been put to rest. My daughter now won't watch anything else and, and really enjoys her daily dose of baby babble, repeating the words, and sounds as she watches. The dvd's are done in a fun and interesting style, and even my wife and I don't get tired of watching them with her. The parent tutorials are very useful, and give guidance on how to keep encouraging speech patterns and practises. Our nine month old daughter likes to watch as well.

Money very well spent.

We bought both the Baby Babble 1 and 2 videos for our 2-year-old daughter who has a speech delay and is being evaluated for autism. She absolutely LOVES these videos! She cannot get enough. She responds to these videos so much and even asks for them by name, "Babble" :) I highly recommend these to anyone, whether or not your child has a speech delay. My 5-month-old also loves them! We just hope that they come out with another one soon!

I was concerned when my son turned 19 months and hadn't really started talking. A friend suggested these tapes. By the 4th time he watched them he was repeating all the sounds on the video. Now at 22 months he is all of a sudden talking up a storm. I think he needed the basic sound building blocks that are taught in these videos (we have Baby Babble 2 also). I wish we would have gotten them sooner. Our second child now watches them too and is Babbling all the time at 7 months.