Baby Sign Language: For Hearing Babies

by Karyn Warburton

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399532609
• ISBN13: 9780399532603
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.1" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Very helpful, practical, and easy to read

I'm surprised to see this rated so low. I love this book! I was able to read it in a matter of hours and immediately start teaching my twins to sign. I passed the book on to my MIL who watches the girls while I work and she even read it and implemented signing immediately. I've never known this woman to finish a book in the ten years I've known her, so that's saying a lot right there. The theory and implementation steps were very clear. The last 1/3 of the book is devoted to large pictures and detailed instructions for how to form each sign. My twins started signing within a few weeks of us starting at 9 months old, and quickly asked for more and more signs. Their gift for gab won out around 15 months old when we stopped teaching them new signs. They could say just about any new word clearly so there didn't seem to be much point in continuing signing. They just turned 2 and are talking in complete sentences. I think baby signs really helped their language development. It's true that the signs illustrated in this book are not ASL, but who cares? We weren't trying to teach our kids a second language, just get them through that frustrating period when they want to communicate but can't verbalize their thoughts. The signs and techniques in this book worked perfectly for us.

Wonderful book w/ great pictures of each sign - my 12 month old can tell me when he wants more, when

This is a GREAT book. A good read, easy to understand, and the collection of pictures at the end of the book made it easy to learn the signs (for me and my son!). This book has truly helped my son learn how to communicate with us even before saying a single word. He started signing at 9 and 1/2 months old and he could tell us he wanted more to eat, more to drink, etc. I was truly amazed and I HIGHLY recommend this book. This book is better than the Joseph Garcia "Sign With Your Baby Book". The pictures are easier on the eyes and easier to understand. Now, according to the previous review, not all the signs are the exact right ones as the ASL. Well, to me, it doesn't matter - as long as my kid can communicate with me! It's sign language for the hearing baby...!