Deb Roy: The birth of a word | Video on TED.com
Whoah!!
What an amazing TED talk.
I loved the part in this talk - the 40 second audio snippet of Deb Roy's son practicing how to say 'WATER'. Listeners could hear the infant perservering over a period of time - by memory it was a month or so with a singular syllable 'Gah' then turning Gah it into a 'Wha' - and then a 'Tehr'- then Da DA!! a multi-syllable word he could communicate to the world - WATER.
Then he flipped on the video content to show a map of the terrain of his home where the hotspots of practicing took place. You guessed it - mostly the kitchen!
Breathtaking data collecting. Standing O to the team that developed this awesome technology to make this communication breakthrough.
It's stories like this that inspire me in making great early childhood music edu-tainment programs like Ukulele Baby Music.
www.ukulelebabymusic.com
I love what Walt Disney said - It's fun trying to do the impossible.
From this talk it's obvious that Deb Roy is having fun too doing the impossible. Thank you Deb Roy! And thank you TED for bringing us this inspiring talk.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
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