Teach Your Baby Sign Language
Teach Your Baby Sign Language
One of the trendiest baby communication techniques being talked about
lately is sign language. The main reason for its popularity is the fact
that it allows you to communicate with your baby before a spoken
language is learned.
With baby sign language your baby is able to tell others exactly what
they want and need. Because of this, the number of baby tantrums can be
greatly reduced.
Every parent has witnessed the familiar signs of frustration in their
baby before baby communication skills are developed and baby is unable
to let others know what they are feeling and what they may need.
Gestures are certainly within the range of a baby's repertoire long
before the ability to articulate words is developed. Now, no one is
suggesting that you sit down and attempt to teach your baby using the
American Sign Language system. You just need a fairly small range of
gestures that mean "I want", "please help", "I'm hungry" etc. If these
gestures are understood by both baby and parent, they will serve the
purpose of improving communication.
You should start teaching your baby sign language or, more accurately,
basic gestures, by example. Because these gestures are visual in nature
they are much easier for your baby to learn than spoken words.
You need to get to the stage where your baby begins to connect a basic
gesture with an action, activity or object. If you do this consistently,
you will find that over time your baby starts to mimic these gestures.
You can also accompany the gesture with the word so that, eventually,
your baby will graduate to using the spoken form.
Babies learn by imitating what they see adults do, so if you are
consistent with using some basic gestures for certain activities and
objects, you'll be surprised at how quickly your baby picks them up. The
most important thing is to keep it fun. Turn the activity of learning
sign language into a game and you will see the best results.
Plan to develop a positive and informative method of baby sign language
early. This communication with your baby will be a great platform for
communication and assist in their growing experience.
Remember, good communication between you and your offspring will be the
basis from which they will develop the most important life skill of
all...being able to communicate with others as they make their way in
the world.
You will also tend to find that the better the communication channels
you have with your child, the better behaved they will be.
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