Rachel Griffin Accurso – or Ms Rachel, as many parents and their kids know her – is the face of Songs For Littles, a popular YouTube account with 2.4m subscribers which teaches babies and toddlers about sounds and words. AdvertisementEncouragingly, Ms Rachel – who has a masters degree in music education and is currently pursuing a second masters in early childhood education – even has endorsements from child speech and language experts. But one paediatric speech language pathologist on Tiktok said Ms Rachel’s format is actually very similar to video chatting – and “there is good solid evidence behind some of the techniques that Ms Rachel uses in her programming”. “My 3 year old autistic son just loves Ms Rachel and especially enjoys circle time,” said one parent in a review. But mostly they agree it’s worth it, given how much their children’s speech has progressed since watching her videos.

Source: Huffington Post January 11, 2023 19:33 UTC