Dear Mr Ted Bennett,

I am Dheeraj’s Grandmother. I have been accompanying him to your classes for little children on Fridays at the Uniting Church Rockdale. From the first day I was impressed and that good impression has increased in leaps and bounds in the classes that followed - kudos to you Mr Ted.

Your books and the way you take the classes have motivated the little children to learn without seeming to do so. Your songs have captivated young hearts. My grandson sings the songs without inhibition wherever he is - at shopping centres, walking on the pavements, at the doctor’s waiting room. He points out the alphabet on sign posts, on cereal boxes correctly.

Mr Ted, you have taken (a lot of ) pains to go down to the level of the little child to make the lessons interesting and exciting. The songs are catchy, the pictures eye-catching and the children are led step by step to read and count effortlessly. The colours used are pleasing and educative in themselves - that is you have used a particular colour for a particular number throughout the book. What a lot of thought and care has gone into it. I applaud you Mr Ted for understanding a child’s mind and mindset.

I must congratulate you for a difficult job well done, nay excellently done, and I must thank you for making learning the 3 Rs so easy and interesting for my grandson.

Hope you will be able to reach out to millions of others who will definitely be the poorer if denied this experience. Thanks from deep within for helping my grandson to see education as an invigorating game.

May God shower his Blessings and Good Luck on you and your family and may you grow from strength to strength to be a beacon in the field of education. You deserve the highest accolades and honours for your work.

This can help not only children starting education but also adults who are ignorant of this wonderful English language - the language of Shakespeare Keats and Milton

An appreciative and a grateful grandmother

Leela B. (Dalghat, India)

Leela is a graduate of Karnataka University Bangalore with degrees in Accountancy, Zoology and Early Childhood learning

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To Whom It May Concern

My name is Maria. Both my children were diagnosed with Global Development Learning Delay which means that their learning patterns are slower than the average child. Speech therapy was recommended as a tool to assist in my children's learning and my husband and I employed the services of a Speech Therapist to come to our home twice a week to work with our children, 3 and 4 years of age at the time. Additionally every other day we did the assigned homework. Over a period of a year and a half we invested a lof of money, time and effort and although we saw results they were far slower than expected.

I became aware of GameTime4Kids through my son's day care centre, Little Dolphins Long Day Care Centre. After being briefed about the program (which covers reading writing and arithmetic) by the Centre staff, I immediately signed my son up to participate.

Upon commencement of the program, I witnessed instant results. The program was delivered in such a way that it was a game, where he would sing along with the CD while he followed the game books. It was simple, easy and extremely enjoyable. My son was so enthusiastic that he would play the CDs five to six times a day.

After a very short period of time every one started noticing my son's confidence levels. Known as a shy, reserved boy, he started talking more and his conversations were longer and more detailed. My son is now well positioned to commence Kindergarten in 2009 as this program has provided him with the right foundation.

The results I have seen in eight to ten weeks can not compare with the year and a half of intense speech therapy work. I highly recommend this program to all children regardless of their individual learning abilities.

Yours enthusiastically,

Maria T. (Kyeemagh, NSW)

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To Whom it May Concern;

Re: Ted Bennett

I first met Ted some fourteen weeks ago when he brought his numeracy and literacy programme "GameTime4Kids" to the long day care centre, Little Dolphins, where my youngest daughter is a student.

Our family consider that our participating daughter has been able to participate in a wonderfully engaging opportunity that not only builds confidence and capacity to read but supports the fundamentals of learning in an easy, structured and novel fashion. She has been very enthusiastic to lead her own sessions each day at home especially on 'her' computer.

During our period of participation we have found Ted to be supportive, conscientious and genuinely interested in our daughter's progress. He has enquired about progress being made, provided suggestions for improving learning and has genuinely kept all students interested each week in his tutorials.

I have been in education for over thirty years and am pleased to be able to offer my support for what I believe to be an excellent programme. It offers all necessary element for children to learn at their own pace; to be able to revise to regain confidence before attempting more challenging segments; visually stimulating and through use of his childrens' characters helps to engage the students in a friendly less formal manner.

The rhythm involved through the musical score is both relaxing and helpful whilst the visual cues find validity for all ages of students; even up to adults. I have concluded that the program is truly constructed for all ages. It has merit for preschoolers to 'Adult English' as a second language.

In conclusion I offer my sincerest appreciation to Ted for allowing our daughter to participate in the programme and would like to take this opportunity to wish him every success in the future. Truly beneficial, well done!

Dr Paul S. Coopet

Dr Cooper holds a doctorate in science and teaches at one of Sydney's private schools

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Dear Sir/Madam;

My two daughters Jessica (4) and Vivian (3) have been enrolled in the GameTime4Kids program conducted by Ted Bennett during the past 6 weeks. The progress they have made is amazing.

At the start of the program they barely recognised the letters in the alphabet and numbers. Now Jessica can read all the letters in the alphabet (capital and lower case) and count to 100.

Vivian can read all the letters in the alphabet (capital and lower case) and count up to 50. They can also start to read short sentences.

My daughters have a lot of fun practicing the weekly exercises at home and on car trips and they look forward to the class taught by Ted each Friday morning.

It is a pleasure for my daughters and me to participate in the GameTime4Kids program.

After seeing the progress they have made which I believe has given them a head start for Kindergarten, I would highly recommend the program to any parents of young children.

Sincerely;

Robyn P.

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To whom it may concern;

My daughter Teoni started the GameTime4Kids program only knowing how to write her name and recognise only the five letters in her name.

Since beginning the program, in just a few weeks, she has learned to:-

• Recognise and write all the letters of the alphabet both lower case and upper case
• Pronounce all phonic sounds for alphabet letters
• Count to 100 with ease
• Count in multiples of 10
• Differentiate letters of the alphabet into consonants and vowels
• Read many words and sentences

She has thoroughly enjoyed this program and was quite upset when her new school orientation fell on the same day when Ted was coming to give the children a lesson.

The catchy tunes have made it easy for her to learn the capital letters and lower case letters. The pictures and music made it easy for her to learn to read and recognise all parts of the body.

Counting was particularly learned with ease as it was learned with rhyming words in a song.

Ted uses visualisation which is a technique used for developing a “mental picture” of words or objects. It seems that she takes a mental picture with her brain so that “an image will remain”.

For my daughter this program has hopefully provided many fundamental skills required so she can now continue to improve her reading and writing with practice and hopefully lead to lifelong learning.

Sophie V. (High School Teacher, Monterey, NSW)

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