Dr. Robert Titzer's Story

Recognized expert, infant researcher Dr. Robert C. Titzer, Ph.D., has a grand vision of making the world a better place by allowing children greater opportunities and successes throughout life by developing reading skills earlier.

A professor and teacher for over 15 years, Dr. Titzer has extensively researched infant learning and development. After teaching in the public school system, Dr. Titzer went on to complete his Masters degree at Pennsylvania State University, and a Ph.D. in Human Performance at Indiana University, where he developed this revolutionary early learning approach with his own infant children.

His research on reading during infant and toddler years captured the interest of educators, researchers, parents, government agencies, and the media worldwide. Dr. Titzer’s research has been published in scientific journals, including the prestigious Psychological Review.

The Your Baby Can Read Learning System began in 1991 with Dr. Robert Titzer’s first child, Aleka. At that time he was leaving his infant daughter with a babysitter while researching infant development at Indiana University. Through his studies Dr. Titzer knew that a baby’s brain develops rapidly, and he wanted to make a difference in Aleka’s learning development. So, he created a simple, interactive homemade video to help Aleka recognize the written word at the same time she was learning the spoken word.

The results were astonishing! At 9 months, Aleka recognized over 30 written words. By her first birthday, she read more than 100 words. Her progress at 18 months included phonetic reading of first-grade-level library books! At two years, she regularly read 10 – 20 books a day, and at three years, she read all 314 pages of A.A. Milne’s The World of Pooh in less than two hours. On her 4th birthday, she read at the 11th grade level phonetically, on par with the average 16-year-old!

During middle school Aleka won spelling and vocabulary bees. She read over 250 novels within her first two years of high school. Now a high school junior, Aleka is succeeding in five AP classes. Because reading is easy for her, she has more time to enjoy her friends and family.

Aleka has a wide variety of interests, is socially well adapted, enjoys music and horseback riding, and is learning to play the guitar.