Baby signing is a a form of communication between you and your child before they learn to talk.
Have you ever wondered what your baby is thinking? Or why your baby is crying? Baby signing teaches babies to use simple, easy-to-do gestures for communicating with their parents and caregivers. These gestures or “signs” represent an item or concept, like “cat,” “eat,” or “all gone.”
Using signs gives babies a way to "talk" with their parents, before they can talk. Babies can communicate about the world around them, long before they have mastered their verbal speaking skills!
Babies and toddlers often use signs as a natural part of the communication process. Many babies know how to wave "bye-bye" or use a headshake to mean "no." The Baby Signs® Program can help your baby use lots of other gestures to communicate just as easily as these more common "signs."
What are the benefits?
It gives your baby the ability to express his or her important needs and thoughts. If used together with speech (*always say the sign, don’t just sign it,) baby sign has enormous benefits for you and your family.
The reason that sign language helps hearing infants communicate is that babies have control over their hands long before they develop the fine motor skills required for speech. Signing enables them to express what they are not yet able to say. After 20 years of careful study, researchers proved that using signs actually enhances language, cognitive, and social-emotional development.
Our Infant care and Toddler 1 programs at Stonebrook Day School are Baby Signs® Program certified. The Baby Signs® Program is based on the groundbreaking research which began an international movement to teach hearing babies to use signs.
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