Have you tried baby signing?

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Has any one tried Baby signing? How did you get on? Was it successful

Yes and Yes!!!

I taught my ds who's now 22 months old, from the age of about 10 months. I couldn't find a baby signing class in my area,so I bought the DVD from Sing and Sign.co.uk - he still loves the songs and uses the signs daily!! Highly recommended, but you need to stick at it and repetition is definately the key!

Yes and Yes.

There weren't any classes near me, so I just did it from a book. DD loved it and was able to communicate really complex sentences from quite a young age. She now has fab language skills and I would heartily recommend it. We've barely had any temper trantrums through lack of communication - in fact I can't think of a single case where this has ever happenned. From that perspctive alone, it is worth it!

I've signed with ds3 (14 months now) -mainly because he is very high risk of a speech and language disorder. He mainly signs more -frantically- whenever he sees one of his brothers get a biscuit :o

I know a bit of Makaton anyway- and have a list of the signs, so just introduced a few from there.

We used the Sing and Sign DVD with DS and now at 2.5 he has an amazing vocabulary (spoken). He started signing at 10 months and went on in leaps and bounds from there. It really is an amazing experience to be told by your 1 year old what they can see/hear/feel!

DS doesn't sign at all now (well hardly ever) but he doesn't need to.

I now teach Sing and Sign I love it so much!

I did, there are baby books with the signs in you can get. dd was over a year old but she absolutely loved the fact that she could tell me what she wanted! I think it encouraged her interest in communicating etc (I know some people fear that it hinders speech development but actually i believe it probably helps it along, as long as you always say the words as well not just sign them)