Babies-Sign-Language

Every mom wants the best for her child. As a new mom there are so many things you want to do to give your baby every advantage in life. One of the best things you can do to help your baby learn is to teach your baby sign language.

Baby sign language is not just for hearing impaired children. All babies can benefit from the pre-language skills that they will learn from baby signing. Baby sign language has been proven to increase children’s vocabulary and decrease the frustration of both child and parent when trying to communicate at an early age.

There are several books available that can help you teach your baby sign language. You can learn the basic signs for things in your baby’s everyday life. Meal times are a good time to practice baby sign language and teach your baby the signs for things like “more”, “eat”, “please”, and “thank you”.

Babies also love learning the signs for animals and things they see outside like “dog”, “fish”, “airplane”, and “flower”. It is fun to be able to communicate with your little one in this way and they will be so proud when they know you understand them.

Baby sign language books are great for learning the basics of signing with your baby but you can also get baby signing dvds and videos that you can watch with your baby to make the learning fun and easy. There are a few different ones available. The best baby sign language dvd set I’ve found is the Signing Time series.

Signing Time was created by Rachel Coleman whose daughter Leah is deaf. Rachel teaches you and your baby sign language with lots of upbeat music and lyrics. She performs the songs herself as she signs while Leah and Leah’s cousin Alex act out stories that are funny and help you remember the sign language as well.

Your older children will love watching this sign language dvd series as well. Kids will enjoy doing the signs and can learn to read the words that they are signing too. The Signing Time company also makes sign language board books with wonderful illustrations of the signs for easy review. They also have music cds with the songs from the dvds so that you and your child can practice the signs along with the music anywhere you can bring your cd player.

My children and I have enjoyed the benefits of learning baby sign language and I hope you and your family do too.