Baby Sign Language
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Publisher Description
Open the door to greater communication with your preverbal child through Baby Sign Language. This practical, illustrated guide shows how simple, easy-to-remember gestures can be used by you and your baby or toddler—to convey thoughts, needs, questions, and answers. It’s easy, and babies absolutely love it!
Baby-signing takes just a few hours to learn, and can be taught to babies as young as six months of age. In this volume, workshop instructor Karyn Warburton presents more than 200 baby-friendly signs covering a wide variety of subjects that little ones will love to learn and use, and will develop their cognitive skills, cut down on communication frustration, and create a stronger bond. This delightful, easy-to-use book features:
• Clear, step-by-step instructions—based on the Baby Talk workshop format
• Photographs and drawings to illustrate each sign
• Baby-centered sign language activities, including songs and storytelling
• Signs graded for difficulty levels
• Tips on how to introduce and reinforce key signs
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Warburton, a Montessori preschool teacher, leads popular baby-signing workshops throughout New Zealand. Citing research revealing that signing provides a foundation for future language development, Warburton points out that signing babies begin using language earlier than nonsigners, score higher on intelligence tests and have larger vocabularies later in life. One of the primary benefits, however, is that this early method of communication alleviates frustration for both babies and parents, and when signing babies begin to verbalize, parents are more likely to easily decipher their first words. Signing babies, the author claims, also develop confidence and better self-esteem. Lest parents take signing too seriously, Warburton repeatedly reminds that learning to sign should be fun and offers age-appropriate guidelines, warning parents that babies under nine months are unlikely to sign back even though they may understand the gestures. The best way to use signing is to focus on words that are already part of a baby's world, like "milk" or "bath," the author explains. While some busy parents may argue that signing is the last thing they need on their cluttered agendas, others will be intrigued by Warburton's claims, which are shored up by parent testimonials. This compact guide includes a signing dictionary of more than 200 words, with illustrative photos demonstrating suggested signing gestures.
Customer Reviews
Didn't hit the mark
If you're looking for a quick reference for baby sign this is not it. If you have anything to do this book is not helpful as the focus is on stories more than guiding you through how to teach your baby sign language. I don't know a mother who has the time to sit and read a book like this....get to the point please.