Teach Your Baby to Sign: An Illustrated Guide to Simple Sign Language for Babies

by Monica Beyer (of www.signingbaby.com)

The ultimate guide to baby sign language, with color photos and 200 signs!

You can hear — your baby can hear — so what’s the deal? Every parent knows how frustrated — how enraged — babies become when they can’t make themselves clear to their families. But now, before they can talk, they can tell you what they mean — with signs!

Signing has taken the parenting world by storm. Why? Every parent is eager to give their baby the best possible upbringing, the least frustration, and the best head start for achieving in today’s driven, competitive society. Research (funded by the National Institutes of Health) has found that signing babies: talk sooner and have larger vocabularies; have stronger parent/child bonds; have less frustration, crying and tantrums; show more interest in books; engage in more sophisticated play; and have higher IQ scores. Now, what parent doesn’t want that?

Baby signing has been featured on Dateline and Oprah. Teach Your Baby to Sign features photographs of babies signing, plus line illustrations of each sign. And it provides 200 useful signs — more than any other book — so parents can have a wide selection to choose from, along with stage-by-stage guidance so they’ll know which signs to teach first and which to add as they and their baby become progressively more skilled and comfortable with signing.

Baby Talk: A Guide to Using Basic Sign Language to Communicate with Your Baby

by Monica Beyer (of www.signingbaby.com)

Jump-start language and learning skills with this simple and elegant guide to using sign language to communicate with your preverbal baby

Imagine averting a tantrum because your baby was able to communicate her desire for a favorite toy without tears, or simply sharing in your baby’s wonderment at the sight of a bird on a tree-before he has even uttered his first word! Generally, children do not develop the motor skills necessary to speak until they are two, and yet they are able to communicate using sign language as early as six months. Written by an experienced signer and a mother of three, this illustrated step-by-step guide will allow readers to join the ranks of parents around the world who experience the rich rewards of communicating with their preverbal babies by using sign language.

Studies have shown that babies who are taught to use signs to express themselves before they can actually speak are more contented because they can communicate their basic needs (and ideas!) and also are more skilled at speaking once they begin to acquire language. Full of practical tips, real anecdotes, and straightforward diagrams of more than sixty basic American Sign Language signs, Baby Talk is the essential baby-signing handbook for parents, relatives, and caregivers-and their babies, who are just a little too young to express themselves verbally.

Book: Paperback | 8.26 x 5.23in | 128 pages | ISBN 9781585425174 | 21 Sep 2006 | Tarcher