has anyone tried the bumblebee dvds???

[hungryhippo21]

just wondering if they are any good ds is 2.5 and non verbal he does not copy things.
we are waiting for asd dx.Anyone know how they work and would they recommend them as they are alot of money if he doesnt like them.
thanks

yes - they are good, and v. non-irritating for kids videos. They have some nice classical music in the background, and they have a set of words which they repeat several times in slightly different contexts, showing real life kids playing etc.

DS did have some speech and can imitate when I used them, I would not be 100% sure if they would work as well with a child that doesn't copy. A MNetter (Jimjams) very kindly set me a few free Baby Bumblebee videos a while back. If you have a video player I am happy to pass them on to you for free.

Me! I think they're brilliant, they really kickstarted ds1's language skills at about 2.3, he picked up all the words from there really easily. I was honestly amazed as teaching him a word previously had taken a lot of work on my part. He couldn't imitate words at that point. Now he picks up new vocab really easily. I got the full boxed set off ebay for about £60 - we have used all of them. Start with the Vocabulary builders ones, there are 5 and I showed one to ds each day, cycling through them all until he'd got all the words.

We also use a dvd called "Your baby can read!" - purely because there's tons of vocab in there - colours, animals body parts etc. The unexpected plus side is he can actually now read all the words too, as well as say them..!

Only downside is that they're both a bit American, I do hear ds calling a zebra a zeebra fairly often!

TotalChaos you are a star! yes please. I am new to this MNet thing so please let me know how I can give you my address and at least send some money to cover postage.
Thanks and double thanks

no - when I was eent them I didn't have to pay postage, so it's only fair iyswim . I don't have CAt - so just e-mail me at milkfloatquack at hotmail dot com. My DS is unwell (tummy bug) so I probably won't make it out to the post office till early next week now.

thanks totalchaos have received video today . many thanks once again

let us know how you get on, took a few times with ds1 before it kicked in so don't worry if there isn't an immediate response to it!

even if ds1 doesnt watch it it will be new toy the video is in the spare room at the moment as dont really use it but today his favourite game is put dvd in turn dvd on wait for picture take dvd out turn dvd off turn dvd on put dvd in and so it starts again, have unplugged the wretched thing and put one of them socket things in but he keeps squeaking at me to take it out aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh.

glad it got there safely, sorry about the delay! hope he uses it other than as a toy LOL