Ms. Rachel / Screentime

So this is just my take away of Ms. Rachel. My daughter is actively in speech therapy and our speech therapist has said she hates ms. Rachel. That the videos are too stimulating and far too long. Nothing can replace conversation, play, and reading to kids. While some screen time is a need in most homes (it definitely is in mine) from what I have been told by our SLP ms. Rachel is not the move.

No educational shows will help your baby to have a better speech. I totally second what Madelyn said.

I don't think you're going to get valid answers on this. People will say that Ms Rachel helped their baby, but often it's more because the parent has been paying particular attention to their child's speech, and increased interaction with them - sometimes using tips from Ms Rachel videos, which can be helpful for adults, but the adults have to actually be the ones to put those into practice. Just watching the videos by themselves will not improve speech.

Babies learn speech by a pattern that developmental psychologists call "serve and return" - baby makes a noise or a gesture, and you respond by either reacting to the gesture or identifying / retrieving the thing. This is the only interaction that is known to light up all of the speech centers of the brain. Screens cannot respond to a baby's cues. It has to be an interactive reaction, that's the only way they actually learn and internalize not just speech, but social patterns and cues, emotional response, and general human interaction.

We don’t do ms Rachel and just read a ton to our daughter. She is just over 2 and I can have full conversations with her. Reading and talking with her a lot has helped her become a huge talker.