Meet Priscilla Dunstan:

From the age of five, Priscilla demonstrated an unusual connection with sound. Already an exceptional violinist, she could hear a piece by Mozart once, then play it back in its entirety. Her father, Director of the Educational Testing Centre at the University of New South Wales, found that his young daughter had an eidetic memory – a photographic memory for sound.

Through the years she continued with her gift developing it and learning to use it. Priscilla has been quoted as saying that her special gift has helped her hear what she calls a second language that is actually beyond English.

During her teenage years Priscilla toured throughout Europe and Australia as an accomplished concert violinist. Priscilla then spent more than 10 years exploring the world of opera, where her talent as a mezzo-soprano deepened her understanding of sound produced by the body.

It was years later, when Priscilla gave birth to her son Tomas, the true significance of her gift emerged. Her instincts as a mother and her connection to sound led her to believe that a baby’s cries had to be something more than just random sounds. Noting combinations of sounds in a journal, Priscilla explored various settling techniques and observed Tom’s reactions. Eventually she was able to recognize patterns, and identify how specific cries had a distinct need attached to them.

Priscilla says, "So when someone's speaking, I get all this information that other people might not pick up." That mysterious second language took on a whole new meaning when Priscilla herself became a mother to her son Tomas. "Because of my gift for sound, I was able to pick up certain patterns in his cries and then remember what those patterns were later on when he cried again." After 9 years of extensive research and testing, Dunstan realized that other babies were saying the same words. This lead her to develop a DVD system that could help teach all parents, grandparents and care givers how to understand and interpret these sounds which lead her to Dunstan Baby Language System.

After her own experience with Tom, her theory was tested with over a thousand babies of 30+ nationalities. 9 years of observation and intervention research then led to 3 independent international studies, confirming the existence of a universal baby language - the Dunstan Baby Language.