Hong Kong leads the world

As a metropolitant city with a large expatriate community and free assess to information all over the world, HK is strategically placed to lead the world in the R & D in multi-lingual studies.

HK gives me the opportunity to study 10 national languages and 6 Chinese dialects. My former position as an Assistant Commissioner for Labour (1990-2004)enabled me to meet many learned friends in the diplomatic circle. (My favourite question was "Diplomats are so strong in languages. How do you train up your people?")

As a Founding Executive Director of the award winning Employees Retraining Board(1992-1998), it enabled me to meet world class academics and training experts from different countries.

My lifelong interest in languages has prompted me to take early retirement and to invest 10 of my most productive years(2004-2013)to understand more about languages and to find a more effective way in learning foreign languages.

I am extremely grateful to many friends in the academic world and the diplomatic circle, especially Prof. Nigel Reeves, OBE.

We have focused our study in a narrow field in the past 5 years, viz. early brain development and language education. We are grateful to the primary research conducted at the Harvard Univeristy Medical School, the North Carolina Univeristy, the Washington University, to name just a few.

We are much indebted to the Newsweek International's feature article on 16 Aug 2005. We also benefited enormously from the many splendid documentaries produced by the National Geographic.

Le Beaumont is probably the only centre in the world that is putting all these latest research findings into actual application. We are grateful to the many talents who have joined Le Beaumont in helping us to push the frontier of knowledge further.

Mr. Patrick Carr, with a First Class Honours Degree and also a Master Degree from the Oxford University, helped us to develop the prototype for the Gifted Babies Program.

Mrs. Eileen Lawson, Mr. Chrit Jenkins, Ms Christine Taylor, Mr. Benjamin Holladay, with a First Class Honours from the Essex University, have returned to their own countries.

We are building a very strong team in the key languages in the modern world. We meet once every week. We are continuously enriching our unique pool of knowledge about language development among infants and toddlers.

We are most grateful to all the valuable feedbacks, comments and suggestions from our parents. Moms are the true experts on infants and toddlers. Their observations are a constant source of inspiration. The moms have informed us that their babies have become more intelligent after joining our baby program, previously known as Baby Phonics. This directs us to the study of the development of IQ and EQ.

Our baby program started off as a language program in the first 4 years. But by the end of the 4th year, there are overwhelming evidence as well as theoretical support that EQ, IQ and LQ are not largely developed by the early experience and environment in which a baby is brought up. Acute deprivation in language stimulation, when both parents are working, leads to retarded growth in brain development and language impairment.

Exposure to more languages very early on and rich stimulation through play do bring up infants as gifted babies. Beaumont Babies will become future leaders in our society.