SIGNING with your baby - who does it? what are some 'signs'?

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What age do you start at, and how do you teach the signs?

I started with DD1 when she was 7m, I didn;t get a sign back from her until she was about a year old but it was really useful - and it didn;t delay her speech either.

Am now doing it with DD2 (8m) started over a month ago and will wait and see, though yesterday, when I signed water she did look at her beaker though it could have just been a coincidence!

The main signs I teach are food, water, milk and more. All I do is sign something as I give it, ie as I give her some water I so the sign for water whilst saying the word, the same for food and just before she gets a bottle I sign milk. I don;t really do the more sign yet.

I have the Joseph Garcia book, which is based on US sign language, however it does also have BSL, and we use whichever one we think woll be easier for her to copy.

Hope that helps and keep in touch wiht how it goes.

I rate this woman very highly

I am also a speech and language therapist and run my own baby signing business as well.

(She isn't me btw.I have nothing to sell!)

I also did Sing and Sign and loved it...just sold our Sing and Sign DVD on here a few days ago.

Not sur eif "something special" is still on CBEeBies...that is pretty neat for Babysigning

I attended a tiny talk baby signing course which was lots of fun. DS was about 3 1/2 months when we started, now 6 1/2. I use a few basic signs regularly (milk, food, bath, nappy, drink) every time I say the word. So far DS has signed milk to me (its a very easy double clench of the fist) but he's still a bit uncoordinated for the rest!

I also learnt lots of signs to go with songs (so I know a lot of animal signs ... not that handy tbh!) which DS loves.

Makaton also an excellent and widely used system

Used in Something Special stuff and they have a lot of other useful material too.

thanks. my dd2 is 7.5 months.
i'd like to try simple signs at home with her.

have a look at Something Special for Makaton signs

You can probably pick up a Joseph Garcia book/kit on Ebay for a lot less than it originally cost - thats where I got mine from

I bought the Sing and Sign DVD's and book from their website. I taught my ds2 to sign from the age of around 8 months and he signed back to me at 10 months old, his first sign was "milk", then "food". He was constantly signing to me after that and it was so great that he could tell me what he needed. As he got older he could tell me when he was tired and wanted to go to bed or when he had a pain. My little boy is 3 years old now and has an amazing vocabulary, everyone comments on how good his speach is . HTH

I have signed with my little boy from day one, i went to Tiny Talk baby signing classes and bought lts of different books and signing packs etc. I also went to another class too i was very comitted and loved them. My son is now 19 months old he has a spocken vocab but he also tells me when he wants more, see's a bus or flower or dog, when he wants to go upstairs and to bed to sleep he is amazing.
I recognize it for any one.