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Sign Language for Baby?

Do you want to share your baby’s world without having to wait for her to speak! You are going to be surprised by what your baby sees, hears and feel!

Amazing signs learnt from the Sign Language video tutorial will help your baby to communicate with you and the rest of  the family, even long before they will be able to utter their first word!

Not Convinced?

Okay…..Let’s take a look at the FACTS!!

In addition to pointing and grunting, a baby has the potential use of his hand and body to aid in communicating his thoughts, want, fears, need and memories. This can be frustrating for any parents if they don’t know what their baby wanted, many parents have experience to this kind of frustration, especially if they cannot console their baby.

Here is a perfect example taken from the most common scenario. Suppose your baby wanted her favorite rabbit but do not have the skill yet to tell you with words or won’t be able to point it out either because it is out of the room, therefore she has no other way of telling you that was what she wants, so she start to cry. Thus leaving you to starch your head and try to guess. If you’ve guessed correctly then your baby is happy, however if you get it wrong, then it will leave you both extremely frsutrated

But what if your baby could make the sign for rabbit? You would simply go and get the rabbit. You and your baby would then be satisfied and a great deal of wasted time and frustration would be avoided.

This is not a new fad; this is a common practise that babies, as young as 6 months have been communicating with hand gestures for as long as 200 years. Babies have been known to developed their own signs to get you to understand what they want or what they are saying.

It’s easy; it’s fun to learn and downright amazing. It helps your baby not just to develop the tools to let you know what she wants, but to build the solid foundations for a well confident and content child.

Signing babies can clearly communicate their thoughts and desires. This helps reduce frustration, foster trust and deepen the connection between babies and their parents.

Baby sign language builds on a baby’s natural tendency to gesture.

And signs are just as easy for a baby to learn as waving, clapping and pointing. Every parent is keen to teach their baby to wave ‘bye bye’ when they are around 7-8 months old. Waving ‘bye bye’ can be appropriately used by the baby at that age – so why not add a few more easy gestures to your baby’s vocabulary?

By using signs in tandem with their spoken language, you can start the process of two-way communication with your baby from as early as six months and enhance the verbal language development of your baby in the process.

The ability to communicate is one of the most important bonds between any two people. You are likely to feel closer to your baby once she begins to speak because she can now communicate with you. If she can communicate with you earlier, then the bond between the two of you will be strengthen earlier.

Signing allows you to share your baby’s world without waiting for her to speak. You are likely to be surprised by what your baby sees, hears and feel. She is looking at the world for the first time.

I can’t still believe that society is still educating parents NOT to use sign language in the family …and especially in this day and age!

Hello?

Have they learnt anything from the voice of Deaf activists, who have campaigned tirelessly to get the parents to learn sign language?

Communicating with your baby from day one is considered by many doctors as something very important whether it’s with spoken or sign language!

Deaf parents think they are doing very well if they believe they have taught their babies to speak….in a method the scientist used to teach monkey!

There is a special language which has been around for hundreds of years, so the deaf people can communicate freely

Why these smarty pants of doctors do think they know better?

Okay…let’s look at the facts:

Deaf people who have grown up in a hearing family have left school with an academic level of 11 years old!

Deaf people who have grown up in a deaf family have left school with an academic level of a normal 16 years old!

However there are few very gifted Deaf people who grew up in hearing family, and went on to get a university degree.

Let’s read more from this brilliant article which explains more in depth the importance of letting the parents of deaf baby to learn sign language almost immediately.

Read more or leave a comment above!

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