Baby Sign Language: Preschooler
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Sign Language
Asked by R.I. from Green Bay
on February 20, 2007
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I am a mother of an active 8 month old son. He is crawling all over the place and taking a few steps already. I have been reading about sign language use with babies a...
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- I used sign language on both my kids one is 3 and one is 18 months. It helped a lot w/ communication my 3 year old would then communicate with my son when we were firs...
- I am an infant/toddler child care provider and I use sign language with the children under my care! It is a great way for them to communicate and feel less frustrated....
- We did sign language with our son who is now 22 months. He really started "getting" it when he was 13 months and learned about 50 signs. I honestly cannot imagine ho...
Baby Sign Language?
Asked by C.G. from Albuquerque
on November 11, 2006
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I was wondering if anyone had some information on baby sign language. I understand it is a good way for children to learn to communicate and express themselves before ...
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- My son started at 6 months old and he only learned one or tow signs right away. We went to a baby signs class thru the baby signs institute here in AZ and I just love...
- Hi, Megan. I have done sign language with my sons, now ages 2.5 and 6.5. We started when my second son was about 6 months old and my then 4-year-old really got into ...
- Hi megan, I think teaching sign language to your baby can start as early as 6 months. There is a good book on this topic,but I cant re- member the authors name, but...
Baby Signs
Asked by K.C. from Lancaster
on September 2, 2008
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Do you sign with your baby/todder? I have been signing with my two sons since they were born. My oldest one started signing at 6 months and my youngest one started a...
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- i tried baby signs with my youngest. It made communication a lot easier but he wasn't very vocal until he started at daycare. I don't know if the two are related.
- K., I tried this with my first son. He still uses the couple signs that we taught him. He is 2.5 years old. I did not get any support from my family. My mother cr...
- Hi K.- I do sign wth my daughter everyday- we do basic signs like eat, drink, milk, more, please, thank you and I love you. At 9 months she is only signing milk but w...
Baby Sign Language
Asked by R.R. from Albuquerque
on March 19, 2008
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I have a 4 month old baby girl and my husband and I are considering trying to teach her baby sign language. Have any of you moms tried it? If so, how well did it wor...
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- We are teaching our son sign language and its really fun. We have signs up in the house that demonstrate certain signs.. and our two year old especially is having fun...
- Absolutely you should teach sign. Studies show that by using sign with children before they develop speaking skills, will actually increase their language skills. I ...
- R.- We taught our youngest some sign lanuage. Our neighbor has an autistic child and so she taught us some basics and we showed the baby and she learned them and it h...
Baby Sign Language & Bilingual
Asked by H.L. from San Francisco
on March 5, 2010
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Hi Mamas -
Anyone out there bilingual and also teaching their baby to sign? We are just starting to try to teach signing to my 10-month-old (8.5 months adjusted) da...
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- Signs are arbritrary untill you give meaning. This is prime time to introduce multiple languages! Just be consistent. I have my mom speak Spanish to my son (17mo) and ...
- By all means, teach your child as many languages as you can. They are remarkable the way they figure it all out. Our child hears both English and Spanish and we did ...
- Go for it! We are bilingual (English and Cantonese) and introduced sign when my daughter was 6 months. We used sign for the basic stuff like, "more", "no more", "tired...
Sign Language for Baby
Asked by T.B. from Dallas
on February 9, 2008
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Does anyone know of a free web site that teaches American Sign Language? I think it will help my baby communicate with us while he is still learning to talk. I guess...
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- they teach it at the comunity center in burleson. 6 classes for $40. ###-###-####
- Hello! After experiencing my 2nd baby's late talking, I decided on my 3rd to use Baby Sign Language. Some areas offer classes...like at Gymboree. However, we just b...
- www.americanbaby.com has some great basic sign language that's perfect for babies/toddlers. this site also includes animated pictures to teach parents the correct way...
Baby Sign Language
Asked by N.W. from Los Angeles
on May 29, 2010
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I want to do the baby sign language for my daughter who is now 5 and a half months old. Can anyone tell me their success stories with this and which DVDs/books are th...
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- I started at birth with my second. With my first, she was a late talker and I found out about doing it from a speech therapist when she was 20 months old. I started ...
- We loved signing. Both my children did it and I loved being able to communicate with them clearly so early on. It strengthens the relationship in such a positive way b...
- I started using sign lang with my daughter at the age of 6 months! I think its great! It took her awhile to start using the signs, but when she did she really used the...
Sign Language
Asked by S.B. from Detroit
on February 9, 2009
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Hi
I was just wondering has anyone taught their baby how to sign? I was reading about teaching infants how to sign for basic things such as food, milk, hungry etc. ...
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- my niece lives in Vegas and she did this with her twins. She only did it for fun and they excelled! In fact they did so well that she had a hard time keeping up with...
- Hi, Sign Language is a great tool for kids. My children have learned thousands of signs. I recommend Signing Time. You can order the DVD's at signingtime.com They ...
- Hi S.! I taught my daughter sign and I started when she was about 4 months old with consistency with signs such as "eat,more, all done and etc and when she turned a...
Teaching My Baby Sign Language
Asked by M.K. from Buffalo
on August 25, 2006
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I am looking for some feedback from other moms about teaching their kids sign language. My daughter is almost 8 months. She has Down's and has been diagnosed with exp...
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- I have read children as young as 9 months old can be taught simple signs and I have taken some classes on the subject as well. Sign language has always been an intere...
- M., abosolutey teach your child sign language!! We taught our grandson sign language and because he could communicate what he wanted and we understood, his frustra...
- I have a four year old austistic boy and when I got him at 19 months all he did was scream for everything and it was causing unbelieveable problems like getting kick o...
Baby Sign Language
Asked by A.H. from Houston
on March 24, 2008
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My child's daycare teachers say they don't do baby sign language.....but I swear my child just started signing to me.
She holds out her and and closes four fingers ...
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- signing with a young child is great! here are some places to get started.... http://www.weehands.com/dictionary.htm and http://www.signingtime.com/ look under fun st...
- I LOVE baby sign language! At 18mo, my dd still was not speaking much. I knew that my dh did not speak a word until he was 3urs old! I talk way too much to allow this ...
- My sister-in-law gave me a cd called Signing Time and I think it's on tv as well, PBS. It's very simple and well done, so check it out. I'm just now trying to teach ...
