My Brilliant Brain/Brain Child

Watch a video clip featuring the Abecedarian Project.

This 3-part miniseries produced by Windfall Films called My Brilliant Brain (UK title)/Brain Child (US title) features LearningGames^® and the Abecedarian Project in its first episode.

What the series producers say about the Abecedarian Project:
"Given the right stimulation at the right time, the sky is the limit for a young brain. A child can acquire every language on this planet, as long as it hears this language spoken early in life. But it's not just language learning that starts early, as the Granddaddy of all early learning studies has shown: the Abecedarian Project, a unique psychological experiment, hand-picked over 100 babies born into deprived neighborhoods in North Carolina in 1970. Some kids started as early as six weeks old and they were immersed in cleverly designed learning games based on cutting edge child development research. And the result was astonishing--the stimulation improved the performance of the kids in many ways--language, math, overall IQ, and social intelligence. And later on they obtained better education and jobs than their peers who had not been given the brain workout. What started as an idealistic experiment designed to help disadvantaged children, has now been published in over 200 scientific articles-solid proof that early learning, if done right, is the key to fulfilling the brain's potential."

Each episode in this series will explore the brainpower of an extraordinary human being: a seven year old concert pianist with a repertoire of 40 pieces; a female chess grandmaster who takes on all comers blindfolded, and a savant impaired by autism but blessed with superhuman powers of memory and calculation. All three are brilliant individuals with extreme skills, but the way in which they got their skills is different in each case--seemingly born, made, or acquired by accident. Far from showing up the shortcomings of our own brains, understanding these extraordinary brains will be a revelation. We will realize just how amazing and powerful the brain really is and will catch a glimpse of the genius hidden in all of us.