Baby Sign Language – Bubbles Song

American Sign Language signs have shown to be helpful in increasing communication among children and helping with their learning abilities. It can also be a fun way to interact with your child or students. They are learning better communication, while having fun. Songs are a great way to get children involved and excited about […]

Will Teaching My Baby Sign Language Delay His Speech?

by Christina Schabow, owner Baby Sign Language in Play (Portland, Oregon) This is by far one of the most common questions I get from parents: Will teaching my baby to sign delay his speech?As a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) I love to answer this question! A good deal of research has been done to address […]

Can learning sign language help me learn other (spoken) languages easier?

I was thinking that maybe learning sign language would not only help me communicate with the deaf, but also help me learn languages like italian and French faster. Like if I’m learning the french word for Car I can sign car at the same time and I’ll remember what the word means. I don’t know […]

An overview on sign language linguistics

Sign language is a rule-governed language that has its own grammatical rules and symbol system. As such, it meets all the requirements of spoken languages abolishing any dispute as to whether it is really a language or not. The work of William C. Stokoe Jr. ‘Sign Language Structure’ (1960) is the first linguistic analysis […]

can somebody please tell me how I can learn sign language for free online?

I’m not deaf or anything but I read a book about somebody who was deaf and now I’d be interested in learning sign language. Please tell me where I can go to find a place for me to learn sign language online for free. .

Baby Sign Language – A Tool For Early Communication

Baby Sign Language is a gesture-based form of communication used with hearing pre-verbal babies and toddlers. It is an exciting way for parents to communicate with their children before they can talk. Parents communicate with their children through body language and their knowledge of their child’s behavior; Baby Sign Language is an extension of […]

Baby Sign Language Sign for Stop

Parents and teachers are always searching for new ways to effectively instruct their students. Speaking or shouting verbally often causes a distraction for on-task children, and are therefore not effective. American Sign Language is a great approach to help with this issue, lessening frustration among adults and children. It is a way that children […]

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 […]