"How to Talk with Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk"

All parents eargerly await the day their babies can tell them what they need, feel and think. Thanks to Baby Signs, this no longer means waiting until babies can talk. All babies have the potential to learn simple, easy-to-remember Baby Signs, such as tapping fingertips together for "more" or touching fingertips to mouth for "hungry." Now your baby can join the hundreds of thousands of babies around the world who are using Baby Signs to tell loved ones their "joys and fears without tears" (Newsweek).

Child Development experts Dr Linda Acredolo, Ph.D, and Dr Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D., discovered Baby Signs in 1982. After two decades of research, Acredolo and Goodwyn have found that babies whose parents introduce them to Baby Signs learn to talk to sooner, have fewer tantrums, get a jump start on their intellectual development, express emotions effectively, and develop stronger bonds with their parents.

Baby Signs are as easy to learn as waving "bye bye" and offer you a priceless window into your child's mind. The memories for you and the benefits for your baby will last a lifetime.

The Importance of Babies' Early Experiences

Breakthrough scientific research is revealing exciting new findings about the extraordinary inborn abilities of infants to think, feel and communicate. Even more exciting is the discovery that the experiences babies encounter during their first three years of life will profoundly influence their brain development, intelligence, language abilities, and emotional well-being throughout their lives. Such findings have generated a great deal of media attention and stimulated intense interest among educating parents about the powerful impact they can have on their baby's name.

From the moment children are born, they begin experiencing the world around them and begin the process of learning. During the first three years of life, a child will develop critical skills, building important concepts and formulating hypotheses about the world that will provide a foundation for his future success in relationship, school and work. By the age of 3, a blueprint for a child's social, emotional, and intellectual tendencies will have been laid down. That is why it is of utmost importance to expose children to purposeful learning experiences in life.

The Original Baby Signs® Program is the world's leading sign language program for hearing babies. It's the only program:

• created by child development experts specifically for babies.
• proven through scientific research to provide positive benefits for babies.
• based on American Sign Language but flexible to fit the needs of all families.
• with a full range of classes and products for parents and babies.
• that offers trainings for Early Childhood Educators and classroom resource kits for Child Development Centers.

What the Baby Signs® Program is all about...

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...

This Original Baby Signs® Program is based on the groundbreaking Baby Signs® 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, childhood educators and families how to use the Baby Signs® Program at home through Baby Signs Singapore. To find out more about those exciting classes and products, contact us at info@babysigns.com.sg. You can also learn more about the research and the benefits of the Baby Signs® Program.

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