StevenBhardwaj
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« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2016, 04:03:22 AM » |
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Hi Vika,
I am using LR and LM with my daughter and she absolutely loves them. My daughter is just turning 1, so I haven't tried BK with a 2y/o. But, my mother did the Doman flash card systems with me (25+ years ago...), starting at 1.5 y/o, and I remember reading lots of chapter books at 6y/o. So 2 y/o is a wonderful time to start Early Learning!!!
In terms of BK's offerings, I suspect that they will work great for a 2y/o. However since I would suppose the reaction of a toddler to new things is so increasingly unpredictable, and changes quickly over time, you may want to familiarize yourself with the customization options in LR and/or LM.
If you get a LR or LM version with a "PRO key" then you can modify pretty much anything about the lessons you want - I haven't tried out more than a quarter of the customization options but they are extensive.
In addition to using BK software, my wife and I went to one of the Doman week-long parent-training sessions. They talk about starting at different ages and how to tweak the flashcards programs for kids starting in diverse developmental situations.
Basically, if a child already knows a bunch of vocab and some phrases, then you will want to take advantage of that to keep them excited and engaged. So maybe slim each lesson down to fewer sub-sessions, decreasing down the total number of cards-per-lesson, and do two "days" of lessons per day, until the vocab feels new. Or you just skip some of the initial days. Or you could try a more involved way of accelerating through the initial material if it feels too slow. Or maybe it'll work just fine out of the box.
But make sure not to make the lessons overlong based on the child's reaction! IAHP & the Domans preach to start with super-short lessons, so the lesson ideally stops while the kid is still pleading for more.
But generally, I think the BK lessons are set up with pretty good multimedia content for differential instruction. There's a big-font printed word and a picture that's great for all ages, but in addition to repetitions of that particular word there's also an accompanying relevant sentence of spoken audio. The spoken audio sentence probably goes right over a 1y/o user's head, that might be an especially enjoyable part for an 2y/o using the same card.
And then there's the read-along stuff with karaoke-style visuals. I haven't used it yet but I saw it in some of the youtube vids.
So, while I don't have experience with trying it out with 2y/o's, if we had adopted a 2y/o instead of birthing our daughter, still the BK softwares would still be my starting point.
Hope that helps!
Cheers,
Steven
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