How To Teach Your Baby Sign Language

February 1, 2009 — Alenka | Posted in Sign Language. 2 Comments »

Our original sign language article is under construction, so I just post some of the resources until we have a chance to post it back:

Web Sites for looking up signs

  • ASL Pro: this site has excellent video demonstrations of every sign.
  • American Sign Language Browser
  • Life Print: this one has little videos, pictures and even explanations what this sign represents, so it is easier to remember and reproduce it.

Books

I’ve used the following book: Sign With Your Baby: How to Communicate With Infants Before They Can Speak by Joseph Garcia. I can’t guarantee that this book is the best, but it worked fine for us in the beginning, and once we ran out of signs mentioned in the book, we were just using online resources for getting new signs (see our Sign Language Resources section). I was really surprised how much “non-speaking” baby can tell with signs language! Many of the signs in this book are standard in American official sign language, as opposed to baby versions. Having the communication going with a non-verbal child – is absolutely amazing!!!

DVD/Video

The most highly recommended video is Signing Time. You can read my personal opinion about this video here: Signing Times Review. Here are some of the recommendations from other parents:

  • Thanks to Viviane, Isabelle,Christina & Michael Aziz for sharing: Christina loves those 10 to 20 minutes in front of the tv watching signing time and your baby can read dvds
  • Thanks to Jennifer: This collection of DVDs is the first one to be recommended every time the discussion on educational DVDs comes up. I haven’t had it for my older daughter, Chloe, but when my baby-boy Zach was born I decided to buy a set of DVDs. Now, both of them are absolutely in love with it!
Related posts:
  • Signing Times
  • Your Baby Can Read! – DVD by Dr. Titzer

    • 2 Responses to “How To Teach Your Baby Sign Language”

    1. Debbie Says:
      March 23, 2010 at 1:31 pm

      I believe the suggested video “siNGing time” was supposed to be “siGNing time”. I found that my local library has a large collection of Signing Time products, including 31 videos on DVD (one on VHS), one board book, and 8 CDs of music. There are even some Baby Signing Time videos.
      My library also has one unrelated video entitled SiNGing Time for children.

    2. Alenka Says:
      March 24, 2010 at 7:34 pm

      You are right. Actually I found Signing Time at the Youtube and fell in love with it. Both of my kids are fascinated with it! Now I join to all of those high recommendations of this video set! You can get more information here: Signing Times Review.

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