Sign With Your Baby: Teach Yourself

A new guide to teaching parents how to communicate with their baby from the earliest weeks, using the popular 'Sing and Sign' method.

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Sign with Your Baby is the first comprehensive guide to signing with your baby to be produced by British authors. Unlike the many dictionaries on the market, it provides both practical and background information on how signing to and with your young child can enhance your communication, emotional bond and their language/behavioural development in many different ways.

Authored in conjunction with the UK's most respected courses, 'Sing and Sign', the book offers firstly a full overview of the history and benefits of signing before outlining the essential signs and moving on to more detailed communication with your baby. From bilingual to special needs children, and covering development right up to the learning of the alphabet and phonics for older children, this practical and informative manual comes with a free DVD, so you can practise and learn directly with your child at home.

Sign with Your Baby includes:

Chapter 1: History and principles of baby signing
Early communication
What is baby signing
How baby signing began
The benefits of baby signing
So, what about British baby signing
The Sing and Sign approach to teaching baby signing

Chapter 2: The early basics, getting started and basic guidelines
When should I start signing with my baby
Guidelines for successful signing
When will my baby start to sign>
Recognize your baby's first signs
Getting started - your first basic signs

Chapter 3: The next steps
Introducing signs relevant to your child's world
Early basics: 'where', 'help', 'open', 'no', 'yes'
Routines: going out, nappy changing, bath and bed
Motivating signs: animals and vehicles
More useful signs

Chapter 4: Emotional development
Emotions: how does your baby feel
Pain and medicine
Love and manner

Chapter 5: Encouraging signing with children at home and in childcare
Important people in your baby's world
Baby's own picture book
Signing in a nursery setting
Bilingual babies
Twins and multiple births
Signing dads

Chapter 6: Special needs
Development delay
Down syndrome
Speech delay
Premature babies
Deafness
Glue ear

Chapter 7: Signing with older children
Getting ready for speech
How signing facilitates speech development
Speech sounds
Reading a book together
Phonics
Colours
Weather
Potty/toilet-training
When should you stop signing

Chapter 8: Frequently asked questions
If my baby learns signs will she still learn to talk
What happens to signs as a baby begins to speak
Why is my baby taking a while to use signs
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