Product Description: At a very young age, children are like sponges, absorbing everything they see and do, learning at an unprecedented rate. This ability to learn so quickly is what allows them to start speaking on an average between 10 months and 2 years old, and to pick up many grown-up mannerisms in infancy...read more

Since 2004, Baby Sign Language Basics has introduced hundreds of thousands of parents and caregivers around the globe to the miracle of signing with their babies – and left them wanting more! Now, in this new bigger edition, Monta Briant provides more than 300 American Sign Language (ASL) signs, illustrated with the same clear, easy-to-understand photos and descriptions. Baby-specific signing techniques, songs, and games are also included to make learning fun and open up two way communication quickly. In this special DVD edition, parents will meet real signing families and learn how to make sign language a part of their every day interactions with their children. Also included on the DVD is a video signing dictionary featuring all the signs from the book. Just point and click and see the sign you want to learn come alive! This book/DVD set is a must-have for all parents, grandparents, anyone else who spends time with preverbal children. After all, what parent or caregiver doesn't want to know what their baby is trying to tell them?

Product Description: The first baby sign pop-up book created by Sabuda & Reinhart Pop-Ups.The first baby sign pop-up book created by Sabuda & Reinhart Pop-Ups.Learn the basic signs to help your baby or toddler communicate with you. From early morning wake-up to eating, to playtime and bedtime, Baby Signs will teach baby and parent their first fifteen signs to facilitate language development...read more

Product Description: The Essential Parenting Guide- NOW COMPLETELY UPDATED AND EXPANDED! In 1982, child development experts Linda Acredolo, Ph.D., and Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D., discovered that babies can communicate with simple signs-even before they're able to talk...read more

Product Description: Speech, verbally mediated consciousness, and culture most evidently differentiate people from animals. Moreover, verbal communication has historically been viewed as a human attribute. Yet, the biological precursors to verbal communication exist in animal communication: obvious links have been found between human and animal nonverbal vocal communication...read more

Product Description: Babies and toddlers use a language all their own. To them, every coo, smile, grunt, raised fist, kick and scream is full of meaning — but often parents can’t understand what they are trying to tell them. Now parents can decode their child’s body language with Baby and Toddler Body Language Phrasebook...read more

Product Description: Children do not always have the capacity or need to express themselves through words. They often succeed in saying more about their feelings and experiences by communicating non-verbally through play and other expressive, creative activities...read more

Product Description: “Finally, songs that are really perfect to sign and sing to!”:— Barbara Granoff, “Sign2Me” presenter and co-creator of the award-winning Sign-A-Lot DVD series   Signing along with songs is one of the most effective things you can do to encourage your baby to try new signs...read more

Product Description: Babies learn best from interaction and Sign Babies board books are the perfect way for parent and baby to do just that. Instead of just a picture of the object, Nancy Cadjan teaches the fundamentals of ASL signing by putting the objects in context...read more

Have you thought about signing with your baby or toddler? Parents and caregivers are discovering the benefits of using American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate with children long before they can speak. Some studies show that signing babies talk sooner, have larger vocabularies, and have fewer tantrums!Baby Signing For Dummies gives you the skills to connect in a meaningful way with your hearing baby or toddler. Packed with more than 150 illustrated signs, this friendly, easy-to-follow guide shows you how to use simple hand gestures and baby-specific signing techniques to start interacting with your baby. Every sign is accompanied by step-by-step directions and an illustration—from meeting and greeting, people, and mealtime signs to clothes, animals, outdoor signs, and, of course, bath time and bedtime. You’ll discover how to:Introduce signs to your babyIncorporate signing into daily lifeMake everyday events easier with signsOvercome stumbling blocksDecrease fussing and crying through signingHelp your baby sign combinations of wordsKeep your baby safe with signingGet the whole family involvedFind outside help (Web sites, videos, and signing schools and courses)Complete with illustrations of the entire ASL alphabet, signing dos and don’ts, and ten songs to sign along with, Baby Signing For Dummies is the key to enhancing communication with your child and increasing his/her intelligence in a simple, fun, and rewarding way!

Product Description: When it comes to signing with babies, the secret to success is to make signing fun!  Using signs in playful and engaging ways gets babies’ attention and stimulates their interest in signing like nothing else. In Sign, Sing, and Play, busy parents will find imaginative ways to include signing naturally throughout the day with activities that can be used at home and on the go! Whether it’s time for a story, a diaper change, or a ride in the car, parents will find dozens of ideas for including signing in ways that motivate baby to sign back quickly and keep signing exciting for parent and child...read more

Product Description: All parents know the frustrations of trying to work out a child’s needs when they are too young to communicate with words. This easy-to-use guide helps parents teach their children basic signs, allowing the child to express themselves from as early as seven months...read more

Product Description: Research has shown that very young children can learn sign language before they learn to speak. Teach Your Tot to Sign: The Parents’ Guide to American Sign Language provides parents and teachers the opportunity to teach more than 500 basic American Sign Language (ASL) signs to their infants, toddlers, and young children...read more

Two child development experts introduce a series of simple but effective techniques for communicating with very young children with a series of easy-to-learn signs, all the while enhancing personal intimacy and developing cognitive and language skills. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: Why are thousands of hearing parents signing with their hearing babies? According to a long-term study at UC Davis, funded by the National Institutes of Health, signing babies:   •            talk sooner and have larger vocabularies •            have stronger parent/child bonds •            have less frustration, crying and tantrums •            show more interest in books •            engage in more sophisticated play •            have increased IQ scores   Signing also increases baby’s self-esteem and gives parents a window into their child’s mind and personality...read more

Product Description: The Secret Language of Children is:--An unspoken language that all children use--An amazing door into your child's inner world--Your greatest tool for raising emotionally healthy kidsWith this groundbreaking book, Dr. Lawrence Shapiro, a leading child psychologist, shows you how to understand this amazing world of communication, and the joys and rewards it can bring...read more

Product Description: Based on a huge body of research in child language and communication development, Children's Communication Skills uses a clear format to set out the key stages of communication development in babies and young children. Its aim is to increase awareness in professionals working with children of what constitutes human communication and what communication skills to expect at any given stage...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Through baby signing that parents can teach to their children, youngsters can learn to communicate sooner, before their vocal chords are developed, which increases children's self-esteem.

Product Description: Gwyneth Doherty-Sneddon, a developmental psychologist and mother of a young son herself, demonstrates the way in which a young child's developing personality and intelligence is revealed in their non-verbal communication. She shows how parents and other adults have the potential to facilitate a child's social and intellectual growth through acknowledging and responding to this unspoken language...read more

Through baby signing that parents can teach to their children, youngsters can communicate when they want more, when something is too hot, or even to let everyone know the food is 'all gone!'

Product Description: Interactive sign language kit and book for babies ages 0-3 and their parents. The book teaches parents and their babies simple signs to help them communicate before and during the time the baby's speech is emerging. The book includes 12 interactive pieces, a flannel board, song and activity lists, and a 32 page book with color photographs...read more

Product Description: Offering a unique focus on the development of human communication, this book integrates and synthesizes a more comprehensive array of research than most investigations of communicative development. As such, it incorporates materials dealing with the development of nonverbal communication, language, and cognition, and examines how they are integrated in the growing child's everyday interaction...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Offering a focus on the development of human communication, this book integrates and synthesizes an array of research. As such, it incorporates materials dealing with the development of nonverbal communication, language and cognition, and examines how they are integrated in the growing child's everyday interaction...read more

Product Description: Scientific studies show that up to 90% of any message is communicated nonverbally, and that nonverbal skills relate directly to academic achievement and social success. Only 10% of the population is truly deficient in these skills; 80% of us have room for improvement...read more

Product Description: The bestselling parenting guide featured on "Oprah" and "Dateline" is revised and updated with new signsFor every parent or caregiver who has struggled unsuccessfully to decode baby grunts and grabs, resulting in tearful frustration for both adult and child, there is Baby Signs...read more