Baby Signing For Dummies by Jennifer Watson (PDF)

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Have you thought about signing with your baby or toddler? Parents and caregivers are discovering the benefits of using American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate with children long before they can speak. Some studies show that signing babies talk sooner, have larger vocabularies, and have fewer tantrums! Baby Signing For Dummies gives you the skills to connect in a meaningful way with your hearing baby or toddler. Packed with more than 150 illustrated signs, this friendly, easy-to-follow guide shows you how to use simple hand gestures and baby-specific signing techniques to start interacting with your baby. Every sign is accompanied by step-by-step directions and an illustration—from meeting and greeting, people, and mealtime signs to clothes, animals, outdoor signs, and, of course, bath time and bedtime. You’ll discover how to:Introduce signs to your babyIncorporate signing into daily lifeMake everyday events easier with signsOvercome stumbling blocksDecrease fussing and crying through signingHelp your baby sign combinations of wordsKeep your baby safe with signingGet the whole family involvedFind outside help (Web sites, videos, and signing schools and courses)Complete with illustrations of the entire ASL alphabet, signing dos and don’ts, and ten songs to sign along with, Baby Signing For Dummies is the key to enhancing communication with your child and increasing his/her intelligence in a simple, fun, and rewarding way!

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: From the Inside Flap Packed with more than 150 illustrated signsNow you’re talking! Communicate with signing and strengthen your bondWant to sign with your baby? This easy-to-use guide shows you how to use sign-language gestures to communicate with hearing infants and toddlers. Using baby-specific signing techniques, you’ll see how to lessen frustration and crying, as well as teach signs for every part of baby’s day. You may even improve baby’s IQ!Discover how toIntroduce signs to your babyGet the whole family involvedMake bedtime easier with signsKeep baby safe with signingOvercome stumbling blocks From the Back Cover Packed with more than 150 illustrated signsNow you’re talking! Communicate with signing and strengthen your bondWant to sign with your baby? This easy-to-use guide shows you how to use sign-language gestures to communicate with hearing infants and toddlers. Using baby-specific signing techniques, you’ll see how to lessen frustration and crying, as well as teach signs for every part of baby’s day. You may even improve baby’s IQ!Discover how toIntroduce signs to your babyGet the whole family involvedMake bedtime easier with signsKeep baby safe with signingOvercome stumbling blocks About the Author Jennifer Hill Watson is the mom to three signing children. She began signing with her first daughter when her daughter was about 6 months old. At 41⁄2 years, her oldest now has over 300 signs. Jennifer’s second daughter is nearing 300 signs at age 31⁄2. Her son has 116 signs and 154 words at 19 months. A former teacher, Jennifer has taught in both private schools and Houston public schools. She teaches signing classes for babies and their parents in the Houston area and helps lead the Houston Signing Babies support group both on the Web and at regular meetings. Jennifer also speaks at national conferences to teachers on using American Sign Language in the classroom. Jennifer works with McGraw-Hill/Wright Group’s Early Childhood Division as an Early Childhood Consultant and teacher trainer. She volunteers as director of a preschool choir and leads confirmation classes with sixth graders in her church. She has a bachelor of science from Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas. Jennifer and her family currently live in Katy, Texas. Read more

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐This book included many signs to get us started, but I found myself asking “thats it?” when I got to the last page. I only paid .99 for it for the kindle edition, so it was worth the money, I just wanted more signs. The book referenced ASL letters at times to explain how to do some signs, but did not include how to do the letters. For me personally, I found the best option for me was to watch a video, that way I could make sure I was doing the signs in the right direction and carrying out the signs entirely. It was a very positive book, giving the reader encouragement throughout and made me feel like any sign I teach my baby is better then none. There were time though, where the drawings in the book showed arrows to explain which way to move your hands, and I still was not confident I was doing them correctly. After I finished the book, I watched youtube videos and felt much more accomplished.

⭐I struggled between giving the book 3 or 5 stars. I have it 5 stars because I bought this Kindle edition for around $1 and it’s completely worth it. But the argument for 3 stars as opposed to 5 would be that it’s not the complete book; it’s a mini version and so the content is extremely limited. That said, this mini Kindle version covers some of the basics and works as a great trial to see if you want to invest in the full book.We used the full version paperback book with my son when he was a baby; he’s 10+ now. We were astonished how well we were able to communicate with him before he could speak. I like the system so much, I plan on purchasing the ASL for dummies Kindle edition.

⭐The grand babies and I will have a great time following in the lessons learned in this book. There are many helpful signs with illustrations. It’s a very easy read. As a past student of finger spelling and simple signs, this book was a great refresher.

⭐This is a great book for beginners! I love the easy reading and pages showing the signs.HOWEVER, when the publisher put this book in print, perhaps they didn’t realize that the picture of the sign and the words on how to do the sign should be on the same page. I spent too much time flipping pages. When showing my daughter picture of the sign, I had to flip to the page before or after to read on how to form and do the sign. TOO MUCH WORK. I now have a sign language dictionary.But a good first book to start with…just a lot of work to read and look at picture. FLIP FLIP FLIP FLIP…

⭐It is a basic book, just 20 signs, but it is clear in why we should teach signs to our babies. For 1 dolar I didn’t expect more, but the words that learn are the more importantes and it is a good beginning

⭐Has very little sign and more of a story of the writer and her kids. You can get all the signs and more for free from the internet and they even have a demo. I ended up using the baby signing time video’s on amazon and even now that my baby talks fluently she still loves those.

⭐I’d like to get the full length version of this book, but was very happy with this mini edition, especially for the price. It gives you good information & just enough signs to get started and decide if siging with your child will work for you. Very readable style (no surprise with a “Dummies” book), and written in an encouraging manner.

⭐I did not like this book. It did not give enough signs. My grandson hknows all those sighns we are looking for more advanced. this book was not worth the cost.

⭐good read

⭐This book is useless to anyone in the UK hoping to learn baby signing as the America Sign Language described in this book is very different to the British Sign Language which is what (obviously) is taught and understood in the UK! It certainly shouldn’t be combined with ‘my first baby signs’ (which currently it is) as this is a British Sign Language book and many of the signs are differnt which is very confusing!

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