Baby Sign Language: For Hearing Babies

For Hearing Babies

Author: Karyn Warburton

This practical, illustrated guide shows parents how to teach their babies simple, easy-to-remember gestures to convey thoughts, needs, questions, and answers long before the babies can talk.

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This practical, illustrated guide shows parents how to teach their babies simple, easy-to-remember gestures to convey thoughts, needs, questions, and answers long before the babies can talk.

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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 Warburton presents more than 200 baby-friendly signs covering a wide variety of subjects that little ones will love to learn and use, and will develop their cognitive skills, cut down on communication frustration, and create a stronger bond. This delightful, easy-to-use book features:

• Clear, step-by-step instructions—based on the Baby Talk workshop format
• Photographs and drawings to illustrate each sign
• Baby-centered sign language activities, including songs and storytelling
• Signs graded for difficulty levels
• Tips on how to introduce and reinforce key signs

About the Author

Karyn Warburton leads Baby Talk workshops across New Zealand, and receives emails from baby-signing parents around the world. Her website, baby-talk.com, offers parents information, resources, and online courses on teaching hearing babies how to use sign language.

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A fully illustrated guide to the latest parenting trend "Baby Sign Language" is a practical, illustrated guide that shows parents how to teach their babies simple, easy-to-remember gestures to convey thoughts, needs, questions, and answers-long before the babies can talk. Packed with useful advice, this delightful guide will help develop cognitive skills, cut down on communication frustration, and create a stronger bond between parents and babies, with: - Clear, step-by-step instructions-based on the author's popular workshop format - Photographs and drawings to illustrate each sign - Baby-centered sign language activities, including songs and storytelling - Signs graded for difficulty levels - Tips on how to introduce and reinforce key signs