Dr. Robert Titzer research has been published in scientific journals and has captured the interest of educators, researchers, parents, government agencies, and the media worldwide. He says the current practice of starting to teach reading skills in Kindergarten is too late. "A child has only one natural window for language, from 3 months to age 5. The earlier a child is taught to read, the better they will read and the more likely they will enjoy it. I believe this is the key to success throughout their lives."
Another expert Dr. Steven Choy found that movement and music motivate cognitive development. "Anything that fosters creativity is good," he says. "Creative toys are things that let your child build, design, draw, create. After all, creativity is the heart of intelligence." Dr. Choy is a clinical psychologist who has been working with young children for 25 years.
Dr. Erin Nakano, Kaiser Permanente pediatrician, says, "It's that attention and interaction that we have been talking about which is so crucial to a child's development and learning. Of course, it's all on a spectrum. A short phone call for business allowing a mother to spend the whole day with her child is very different than many long social calls which distract a mother from engaging with her child on a regular basis."
Early readers have more confidence, higher self-esteem and generally perform better in school and later in life. Test scores shown that countries, such as Russia and Singapore, who begin teaching learning skills earlier than the United States, can test better than American children of the same grade level.