Baby Sign Language Online

Teaching babies sign language is simple and fun, and provides a way for your baby to interact with you before they develop speech. Non-verbal communication is very important to a child’s early development, plus you will develop an even closer bond with your baby and be thrilled when your baby starts signing back to you, probably when they are around seven to eight months old.

Once your baby can start waving or using gestures such as clapping, they are ready to start using baby sign language.
However, you can start using signs with them from a much earlier age, because babies are absorbing information even when they can’t physically make the signs to you. By the time they are old enough to start using sign to communicate with you, they will already have a large vocabulary of baby signs if you have been signing with them regularly and consistently.

1. Start signing when your baby is between 6 and 8 months and your baby holds your gaze for a few seconds. Start with one or two signs. Pick them from the most popular words, such as more, milk, eat, drink. These are signs you can model to your baby several times a day and they are need based signs where your baby can express something they require.

2. Sign to your baby on a regular basis. Just as babies learn words and speech through repetition, it is the same with learning baby sign language.

3. Use the sign before, during and after the activity. For example, as your baby is about to finish her food, as if she would like some “more”. You can also use the word “more” for activities and objects such as more kisses, more stories, more milk and anything else you can think of.

4. Make sure you sign when your baby is looking at you. Making eye contact with your baby is important. If you baby can’t see you, they can’t learn the sign!

5. Model the sign and say the word at the same time. When you sign and say the word at the same time, your child can connect with the word on two different levels. This incorporates two of the ways we learn new things –seeing and hearing.

Do you want more information on teaching your baby sign language? Studies have shown that babies who learned baby sign language as infants had a higher IQ overall than babies who didn’t, and children who can communicate through sign are often much happier babies and toddlers which translates into a happier YOU! CLICK HERE to find out how to start teaching babies sign language today!

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