I am super excited and proud to say that my baby girl is starting to sign back!
I’ve only been working on basic signs for mealtime so far. I haven’t been super constant day-to-day, but I’ve been concentrating on teaching eat, more, all done, and milk.
A week or so ago I noticed her moving her hand in a similar way to “milk” while nursing. I signed back saying the word and she giggled. She would randomly do it but usually after eating solids. It’s become clear that she knows it!
She does “more” sometimes and will do a very exaggerated version of “all done.”. It feels great knowing we can continue to work on our communication and hopefully decrease frustration for both of us.
Do/Did you sign with your baby? How’s it going for you?
Carrie M
Tuesday 6th of September 2011
Isn't it amazing when you start seeing baby signs? We started at 10 months, felt way behind but starting seeing signs immediately. "Bubbles" was the first (she loves them). She's now 15 months and we stopped counting at 100 signs. Pretty amazing the ways we can communicate even though her only "verbal" words are Mama, Dada, and owl.
I'd highly recommend Baby Signing Time videos. We check them out from our local library.
Darcy
Tuesday 6th of September 2011
It is pretty amazing! :) We have the Baby Signs starter kit that I reviewed several months ago - it has dvds and books. Definitely has been a helpful resource!
michelle r
Monday 5th of September 2011
how fun! did you put the baby signs video on for her yet? its short and fun :-) my son always signs book and it's from that movie.
Jayne @ Green Country Girl
Sunday 4th of September 2011
I used to use basic signs when I taught pre-school. For discipline purposes, I felt that reinforcing the words "stop" and "no" with signs made an impact and kept me from needing to raise my voice. For fun stuff, I remember how much they loved learning to count in English, Spanish, French and ASL.
Tammy B
Sunday 4th of September 2011
I signed a lot with my baby and I truely believe that it helped his language development. Sign to me is like baby closed captioning - he gets the word, but also the sign and when he hears the word again with the sign, he knows it is the same thing. He was asking for grapes by 8 months. It did not seem to slow his verbal communication, but made it much easier/clearer for me when he started to speak that he would speak and sign together and when I don't understand him now, he uses the sign (e.g. I thought he was asking for the pen, then he clarified he was saying hat). He's 20 months now.
Darcy
Sunday 4th of September 2011
That is great! I'm definitely going to work on it more now. It was so rewarding to see her return a few signs and know we are on the same page!
Sabrina Radke
Sunday 4th of September 2011
I am so excited for you guys! Tates is really starting to sign more too!
Darcy
Sunday 4th of September 2011
Yay! :D