I've seen that using
baby sign language actually speeds up speech development and promotes an amazing vocabulary early on!
Not exact matches
Babies can
actually learn
sign language far quicker than talking.
Teaching your
baby sign language, especially a few easy
signs, can make all the difference and
actually propel their
language skills.
It was really just a way to have really prominent speakers — last year we had Ina May Gaskin and this year we're excited to have Dr. Sears, the author of The Vaccine Book, and many others
actually coming to speak and... just many, many speakers all day long, demonstrations on things like
baby wearing and
baby sign language and cloth diapering, tummy time.
Parents may worry that teaching their
baby to
sign will interfere with normal speech development, but some studies suggest the opposite is true:
Signing may
actually improve
language and vocabulary.
Babies communicate with gestures long before they can speak, and research suggests that
signing with your
baby may
actually help her verbal
language skills.
Recent studies have
actually shown that
sign language accelerates
babies oral communication.
Many believe that
baby sign language is a new concept, however it has
actually been around for decades.
However, Aylet says that
sign language will
actually accelerate your
baby's verbal skills: «If your little one is growing up in a house and community full of people who use speech as their primary means to communicate, then when your
baby or toddler can speak, he / she will.
Baby sign language videos are a great tool to have when you're teaching your little one to
sign, and
sign language is an amazing way
babies can
actually communicate early on.
The exposure to other activities (singing,
sign language, working outwith
baby, massage, etc.) was excellent in helping me determine what else I would
sign up for, i.e. it was a great introduction before
actually committing to something.