Helen Doron Early English is the brainchild of Helen Doron. Her academic studies in Linguistics and her practical work as a private English teacher combined to form the basis for her own natural and successful method for teaching English to babies and children.
British-born Helen Doron holds a BA in Linguistic Science and French and an MA in Linguistics. Her academic posts include lecturer for English language and literature at Poitiers University, France.
Helen has an interest in optimizing children's emotional, physical, cognitive and intellectual wellbeing. As a result of her friendship with Dr. Frederick Leboyer (the famous anti-obstetrician obstetrician and author of 'For a Birth Without Violence') Helen organized lectures and tours of hospitals in a number of countries over the years, which has had a permanent influence on the conditions offered by local maternity wards.
In the course of her life as a mother and educator, Helen Doron has always sought innovation and excellence for herself, her children, and the world. Her own daughter's violin lessons brought her to explore the Suzuki Method of violin learning. The Suzuki Method teaches young children music by hearing it at home daily over and over again. The teacher shows the child how to play the music. In the beginning, the children need not read musical notation. In fact, Dr. Suzuki calls this the "mother tongue method" of teaching music, as the child learns to "speak the language of music" before learning to read it. HDEE is based on this same principle.
In 1985, Helen took inspiration from this notion and developed her own mother tongue method for teaching English as an additional language. She started teaching small groups of children, giving them homemade cassettes with singing, rhymes and stories to be heard twice daily at home in the background. This created an English-speaking environment in the home, mimicking the natural process of learning a mother tongue.
These early courses were extremely successful. Increasing demand impelled Helen to found her first Early Child Development Centre, to create a network of teachers, and to begin producing professional material. From there, the company blossomed and the method spread its wings and flew into the lives of countless children worldwide.
In 2001, Helen commissioned work on the creation of a method for teaching mathematics to young children in a manner that would inspire and uplift them. This same method would help construct their mathematical thinking in a way that would serve them in school and daily life. Mathjogs (www.mathjogs.com) is highly successful today and Helen continues to be involved in its development and teaching.
Heading the company as CEO, Helen also continues to produce the company's pedagogic English materials while keeping up with “hands-on” teaching experience.
Helen Doron has focused her sharp and creative mind on the education of a whole generation. She's revolutionized English and mathematics learning and continues to define and mould the future. Her business has grown into a company with a dedicated, professional staff and thousands of representatives worldwide and proof of success in the hundreds of thousands of children who carry her songs and knowledge within them.