How Do You Teach A Baby Sign Language?
When you teach a baby sign language, you give her an effective way to communicate before she can speak, open the way for a stronger parent-child bond and give her an intellectual headstart, too. Most babies take to sign language quickly. Many parents find teaching sign language to a baby is no harder than teaching spoken words. Learn to sign. If you don’t know sign language, start learning some signs a baby would need like “mom,” “bottle” or “outside.” Babies learn fast, so you’ll need to stay a few steps ahead of your little one. Try to keep all teaching adults on the same page or your baby could learn a sign from one person that no one else understands. You can teach older siblings to sign, too, so they have a way to interact with the new baby. Choose a few basic words to start with. If you start signing for everything, you may tend to sign too fast for your baby to realize you’re trying to communicate. Pick just a few essentials like “hungry,” “juice” or “help.” It’s easier to start
