Baby Babble 1 or Baby Babble 2 DVD

The AAP recommends NO TV watching for children under 2. In my opinion the speech therapist who recommended watching a DVD for a 1 year old is completely irresponsible. There is a large study published and on display at my son's OT's office (which houses both OT and Speech professionals)that found a direct correlation between TV watching and language DELAY. It did not matter what the babies were watching (e.g. educational or otherwise). I can't recall off-hand where it was published but for each extra time increment of TV/video viewing there were significantly FEWER words spoken by the child. Keep up the great work reading books and talking with your daughter. There is no short cut for promoting verbal expression.

I personally think babies will learn to talk the best through listening to their parents & having conversations with them (I'm not a fan of using dvd's or tv). I understand, however, that this is much harder when both parents work outside of the home. Whatever you decide to use, just keep talking around her constantly. Have conversations w/ her in the car & during dinner, for example. Even if she doesn't respond she's listening & will surprise you when she starts saying things back to you! Good luck!

Don't waste your money.

Your baby will learn more by interacting with you as opposed to plopping them in front of a tv, hoping they'll pick it up.

Continue to 'label' things for your child. What I mean by that is when you hand her an object, look her in the eye and 'name it'. You're going to feel like a broken record, saying 'cup' or 'puppy' a zillion times a day.

At 12 months, you really don't need to be worrying so much but if at 15 months she still isn't speaking her first word then ask her pediatrician for a referral to Early Intervention. We did this with our son at 15 months and it has helped tremendously. We aren't looking for our son to be advance, just developmentally appropriate. After 3 months of weekly speech therapy he is doing wonderfully and starting to use two-word sentences. He is back on track and we are thrilled.

While I don't dispute what the other moms have said about not relying on DVDs, we were actually advised by a speech pathologist to use the Baby Babble DVDs with our son. We found out at 10 months of age that he couldn't hear due to constant ear infections. Once he got tubes put in, his hearing returned to normal but at 14 months was diagnosed with a speech delay. He was "speaking" in the 9-12 month range, certainly not terrible but something we wanted to stay on top of. One of the speech pathologists we spoke to said she always recommends the Baby Babble DVD for babies at that age who are showing signs of delay. I bought the 1st DVD and it's been great. It's not meant to be something you just turn on and walk away, you should sit with your child and repeat the words, describe what you see, etc. There are also several sign language words taught, which is also helpful. The DVD was created by two pediatric speech pathologists - it's nothing fancy, but I can honestly say it has helped. My son will be getting the 2nd Baby Babble for Christmas. Hope that helps & good luck!

Both of my sons were/are speech delayed. For our first son, we bought Baby Babble for him when he was around 28 months old and he loved it. He learned all of the simple phrases they had and it was great. They have some good tips for parents too. I also had him going to a speech therapist at the time. My younger son I bought Baby Babble II for when he was around 18 months old and he wouldn't watch it at all. I try to get him to watch it every month or so but he isn't interested. So, my suggestion to you would be to try to get it through a library or something first. If you do buy it, I thought it was a great tool for our oldest and anything that can help is worth the money in my opinion.