Sign With Your Baby: How to Communicate With Infants Before They Can Speak

by Garcia, Joseph; Burton, White

• ISBN13: 9780963622921
• ISBN10: 0963622927
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Northlight Communications

Summary

A guide for hearing parents demonstrates how they can teach their hearing infants to communicate with simple sign language gestures before they can speak

Table of Contents

Communication: The Backbone to a Healthy Relationship With Your Child	p. 9
911...To Call or Not to Call?	p. 11
Proving an Intuition	p. 13
Get the Big Picture	p. 15
Something Done Wrong Long Enough Becomes Right?	p. 15
Why the First Signs of Intelligent Life Can Be Signs	p. 17
"Even Though I Can't Talk Yet, I Know More Than You Think I Know"	p. 19
How Your Child's Cognitive Skills and Motor Coordination Develop During Infancy	p. 20
Seeing the World Through a Newcomer's Eyes	p. 21
Shared Perception and Shared Meaning	p. 21
Learning by Association	p. 23
Will Signing Interfere With My Child's Speech Development?	p. 24
To Contribute or to Commit?	p. 25
How to Sign With Your Baby	p. 26
Let Your Fingers Do the Talking	p. 26
Gazes: Opportune Moments to Introduce Signs	p. 26
Let's Face It	p. 28
The First Signs of Intelligent Life	p. 29
How To Show Your Infant a Sign	p. 29
Which Signs to Start With and When to Start	p. 31
"Can You Tell Me Where It Hurts?"	p. 39
Some Handy Games	p. 41
Recognizing Your Children's Signs	p. 43
Repeating and Reinforcing Your Signs	p. 46
Combining Signs	p. 48
How to Create a New Sign	p. 48
The Power of Silence	p. 49
Things to Remember	p. 50
The Terrible Twos and Threes: Talk Your Child Out of Them	p. 51
Final Thoughts	p. 52
Hand Shapes	p. 55
Vocabulary	p. 57
References	p. 107
Index	p. 108
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