Baby Sign Language

How Baby Sign Language Can Help Your Baby

Incorporating baby sign language into your everyday life will benefit you and your baby in some of the following ways:

Using baby sign language, will help your baby to be able to express their needs and wants to you even before being able to speak.

Baby Sign Language helps reduce a lot of the frustration for you and your baby by giving you a communication system which can be used with babies from as young as 6 months up to  2 1/2 years old.

Baby sign language research shows that children who are exposed to baby sign language are generally more self-confident and have increased self-esteem.

Baby Sign Language helps speed up your baby’s speech development.

Baby Sign Language provides your child with a strong foundation for early literacy, helping to advance your child’s vocabulary, spelling and reading ability.

Baby Sign Language allows you to understand your baby’s thoughts and interests and creates a stronger bond between you and your baby.

Baby Sign Language stimulates brain development, which can result in higher IQ’s.

Who Can Benefit From Learning Baby Sign Language?

• Parents who want to learn to communicate with their hearing baby.

• Parents who want to learn to communicate with their deaf baby.

• Parents who want to learn to communicate with a special needs child. Baby sign language has been shown to be beneficial with children with Down Syndrome, Autism or any other communication problem.

• Parents who want to teach their verbal children basic sign language and expose them to the benefits. Read more on the benefits of teaching verbal children sign language.

• Childcare workers who want to learn to communicate with the pre-verbal children in their childcare centre.

• Primary teachers who want to introduce basic signs to their verbal students and expose them to the benefits of learning basic sign language.

• Nurses who want to communicate with victims of stroke, who are unable to communicate verbally.

What Baby Sign Language Can Do For You!

Once you have successfully incorporated the principles of baby sign language into you and your baby’s everyday life you will start to notice a difference!

Those frustrating moments of trying to decide what your baby wants or needs will become few and far between and you should notice a a drop in those sleepless nights where your baby seems to be crying for no reason at all.

Once your baby can sign to you what they want or need when they want it, they can initiate a conversation with you about things that interest them and will become a much happier and confident baby.

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