Does anybody here teach or know alot about baby sign?

[megglevache]

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Don't know if it is the same in baby sign, but in BSL the sign is the same for both aunty and uncle - first 2 fingers (a la doing a v sign) bent, then tapped on chin twice. Only difference is that you say aunty or uncle as you do it.

According to my signing vocab book:

Aunty - bent index and third fingers tap your chin. The picture shows the two fingers slightly apart. Kind of like doing a V sign on your chin, but with the fingers bent. My sister always laughs when I do the aunty sign to ds!!

Uncle - hold one hand up in front of you palm facing in. The index finger of your other hand brushes twice on the back of the little finger on the hand you are holding up.

Blimey these are hard to describe! No wonder there are pictures in the book. Perhaps someone will be able to give a better description for you megglevach.

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Forest Books website has loads of signing books on it. If you are wanting to just do baby sign rather than BSL, I believe there is somebody Garcia (Joseph?) who does baby sign books (tho may have that completely wrong!)

megglevache - I have got the sing and sign vocab book. I haven't done any of the singing stuff, I don't have any of the DVDs and I haven't been to a class or anything. I believe though that for about £15 there is an online dictionary of signs from sing and sign. I am thinking of signing up for it. When I got the vocab book, I thought, "200 signs, that'll cover everything", but it doesn't! Amazing, eh!

'Uncle - hold one hand up in front of you palm facing in. The index finger of your other hand brushes twice on the back of the little finger on the hand you are holding up.'

If you know the alphabet then you double tap the 'U', that is what this sign is describing.

I have Level 2 British Sign Language (BSL) and was keen to get DD into signing. I attended a group where the guest speaker was teaching some baby signing but she admitted that "you can make up whatever signs you want". As BSL is sometimes too complicated for baby hands, the signs have been doctored or changed altogether for them to manage. As this is the case, you can make up a sign and as long as you stick to it, your baby will remember it and you'll understand each other.
Incidentally, the BSL (regional) for Aunt is to make a fist with the index and middle fingers slightly higher than the ring and little fingers with the right hand (if you're right handed), then tap the knuckles of the higher two fingers on the chin lightly, once for Aunt, twice for Uncle. Use the same handshape (once) for niece, twice for nephew. The difference is in the lip pattern/mouth shape as you say the words.

I've not had a problem with any BSL signs, my two have managed. Of course their hand shpaes were never perfect but I could understand them in context.