Learn Baby Signing and teach your baby to communicate with you now.
It’s about…
Parents and other caregivers can learn to communicate with babies long before Baby has learned to talk by learning and teaching baby sign language. Based on American Sign Language (ASL) used by the deaf, Dr. Joseph Garcia designed the Sign with your Baby ® technique to help hearing infants learn to communicate their needs as early as eight months.
Communication!
Verbal skills require very complex muscle movements that take longer to develop than the large muscle skills used in signing. Parents know that babies understand language much earlier than they can speak, and now parents can learn to understand what the baby needs or wants.
Empowerment!
Signing teaches better thinking skills and communication skills, and even lays a foundation for early literacy in childhood. Babies learn cause and effect when they sign what they want and their parents respond. Signing helps reduce the child’s frustration, known as the terrible twos, when they are beginning to see themselves separate from their parents, and they have more ideas and desires than they can express.
Love!
Teaching sign is part of daily activities, so simple ideas like hungry, more, hurt, milk, can help the parent feel more confident that the child’s needs are met. Signing also reinforces the intelligence of the child, which is developed by communication with parents and caregivers. Family signs can be shared into adulthood as well, giving the family another means of communication even after the child is talking.
Sign is rewarding and fun for babies and parents alike.
Instructor Amber Grudzien (sounds like blue jean) has an associate degree in Interpreting, and is an interpreter for Spartanburg Community College. Her website is http://signitdontwhineit.com
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