I happen to have just gotten off the phone with a mom inquiring about WeeHands classes. She knows her baby is ready to start signing because her daughter is pointing to objects and looking at her parents expectantly while sometimes vocalizing. You can without doubt sign to a baby before he or she starts to […]
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What do you think about Baby Sign Language/Language Development?
Just curious…..I thought about teaching Emma sign language and my mother mentioned something about it interferring with her ability to speak. I really just never got around to teaching her. Anyways now she 11 months old and communicates with about a dozen words and by pointing. I just wonder if she would be so vocal […]
Music Mediated Baby Sign Language Instruction Enhances Motivation And Learning Development
Music mediated sign language instruction has several central purposes. The first is to guide each child, deaf or hearing, in developing fluent language skills while promoting effective communication between the children and their family and peers. The second is to support the development of language as a tool for literacy attainment. Third, it will […]
Does learning sign language negatively impact a child’s speech development?
Parents are often divided as to whether using sign language with their children can have any sort of negative impact on their speech development. In fact, the field of baby signing for children with a variety of special needs and hearing impaired children has grown over the last years. However, some families introduce sign […]