Little Trinity Veith is just learning her first words. But when she started to read at 18 months, that surprised everyone. Trinity's mother, Georgia, demonstrates by holding up a flash card with the words "arms up," and Trinity reaches toward the sky. But her wealth of vocabulary doesn't stop there. Her mother says Trinity is reading words out loud, such as "ears," "clock" and "Hi."

Georgia Veith says at 6 months old Trinity began watching the Your Baby Can Read video series. Trinity couldn't take her eyes off the screen, which repeatedly shows the words, then the action, by children. A Southeastern Louisiana University professor, Dr. Robert Titzer, developed the tapes for his daughters.

"I wanted to play stimulating games for them," Dr. Titzer says. "I made up many new activities for us to do, one of which was reading." The tapes caught on, and there are now five in the series, with more on the way.

Georgia says she was skeptical at first, but she would play the tapes for about an hour a day in their Elmhurst, Ill., home. She says by 10 months Trinity was interacting with the videos, and before long she began reciting the flash cards. "My skepticism turned into amazement, and I literally started running and jumping around the room," says Georgia, describing how she felt after Trinity read her first word.

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