Baby Signs® with Malaika

Do you ever wonder what your baby is thinking?

Or why your baby is crying?

The Baby Signs^®  Program teaches babies to use simple, easy-to-do gestures for communicating with their parents and caregivers. These gestures or “signs” represent an item or concept, like “cat,” “eat,” or “all gone.”

Using signs gives babies a way to “talk” with their parents, before they can talk. Babies can communicate about the world around them, long before they have mastered their verbal speaking skills!

Babies and toddlers often use signs as a natural part of the communication process. Many babies know how to wave “bye-bye” or use a headshake to mean “no.” The Baby Signs^®  Program can help your baby use lots of other gestures to communicate just as easily as these more common “signs.”

You might even already be using signs without realizing it! If you are singing your child’s favorite songs and nursery rhymes along with finger or hand movements, you are actually helping your child learn signs that can be useful outside the song. Your child may sign back to you when you are eating, getting ready for bed, or walking to the park, or taking a bath or...

The Baby Signs^®  Program is based on the groundbreaking research which began an international movement to teach hearing babies to use signs. After 20 years of careful study, Baby Signs^® researchers proved that using signs actually enhances language, cognitive, and social-emotional development.

The Baby Signs Institute offers parent workshops and classes to teach parents how to use the Baby Signs^® Program at home. To find out more about classes and products, email me or search through the site. You can also visit the Baby Signs Institute at www.babysigns.com to learn more about the research and the benefits of the Baby Signs^®  Program.