My Baby Sasha Loves Signing

Since our first lesson on mealtime, we have been signing with Sasha non Stop. Hope you got to see our videos we put together with the help of my niece Karina.

My experiences with baby Sasha so far is great.
She is not signing yet, but she is all eyes when she sees me showing her Milk or Eat.

I feel like signing with my baby is an amazing and easy experience.
I don’t know enough yet, so I am just practicing all the signs I know so far.
I always just talk to her and sign at the same time.
I feel like our communication is emphasized.
Sasha is smiling when I am talking to her and she likes when I am signing
to her - she looks at my hands.
I think it is important to be consistent and the real key to success is using the signs every time we engage in the activity or I say the word.
So, we say “We’re going to EAT. Do you want to EAT?” And then as she eats,we say “Let’s EAT another bite of cereal.”
So every time we sign Eat; while she is Eating we sign as many times as possible.
It is less important to know a lot of signs than it is to use the signs you know.

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5 Reasons why I teach Baby Sasha Sign Language:

1. To Enrich the parent-child relationship. It makes perfect sense that a baby whose wants and needs are understood by his parents would feel closer to them. It also makes sense that a much less frustrated household would make for a better relationship between parents and babies.

2. Increase your ability to understand the wants and needs of your baby, and decrease overall frustration for your baby. Using baby signing enables a baby to convey what she wants and needs. I can still remember seeing my 11-month-old signing “milk” when she wanted to nurse. Later, she was able to sign for other food and drink items, as well as for toys and play. I found that she seemed generally happy and was an “easy” baby. Mothers in our play group noticed and wanted to know more about baby signing.

I referred them to research by the authors of Baby Signs that indicates that if a baby can communicate what she wants and needs – even if the parent must say “no” in response – the baby will know that she was understood and experience less frustration. Reduced frustration means that she will cry less and be much happier (especially as she moves into the frustrating days of toddlerhood).

3. Open an exciting window into the mind of your baby. Babies are developing rapidly. They are like little sponges – soaking in everything. You can be a part of that experience when you teach your baby how to use signs. My daughter was so proud of herself when she was able to point to our fish tank and sign “fish” for the first time. She tapped my shoulder, pointed at the tank and signed “fish.” She had the biggest grin on her face and it was almost as if she had said to me, “Mommy, I see a fish over there.” Her first sentence!

4. Enhance the development of language skills. A common myth about baby signing is that a child who is taught baby signing will choose to use signing over verbal speech. The opposite is true. Not only will a baby choose verbal speech over signing, but signing will increase baby’s verbal abilities. In my practice as a speech pathologist, I use signing to facilitate verbal speech with babies and toddlers who have language delays and disorders, and I have seen the great strides they make when signs are used. It is a bridge to verbal communication. I call it “The tricycle before the bicycle.” It is no wonder that a baby or toddler who does not have any language deficits would benefit even more from signing.

5. Increase your baby’s IQ. Results taken from a longitudinal study by the researchers behind the book Baby Signs, Acredolo and Goodwyn, revealed a 12-point difference in IQ scores when babies who used signing were compared to babies who did not sign. Babies who signed had IQ scores that were almost one standard deviation above those who did not. That is a big leap, one that could indicate the need for all babies to use signing and one that will continue to be explored as baby signing grows in use.

It is clear that baby signing is not a fad but a useful tool to help in baby’s development. Happy signing!

Lesson 1 :Mealtime

This is my favorite lesson, since it is what your baby starts out her life with : eating!
With teaching my little girl the sign language I am also conducting an experiment with my 7 year old niece Karina.
She just came from Ukraine, where I am originally from, and she only spoke Russian and Ukrainian all her life.
Well, she came to the class with me and she seems to be learning English at an exhilarating speed. WITH SIGNS!
I am amazed how easy it comes to her. So I asked her to Assist me in Creating Videos of those Signed we learned today.
And in the future you will see Karina demonstrating the signs.
You might hear me talking to her in the background either Russian or English.

1. Eat

2. Drink

3. More

4. Milk

5. Cereal

6. Bib

7. All Done


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My beautiful 6 months old baby girl had her 1st sign language class on August 11th 2007.

I've learned about 10 words. She already knows "Flower". She Has one on her Exersaucer (Click Here for A picture) and she likes to chew on it, so we get to practice it every day.

Thanks for joining us on this wonderful journey. Good Luck!
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