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Interview with Creator of Signing Baby.com

Monica Beyer is the creator of the web site Signing Baby.com. She currently lives in St. Joseph Missouri with her three children, Dagan (10), Corbin (7), and Lauren (3). Besides baby sign language her passions are reading, web design, and gardening. I recently interviewed her about baby sign language, her use of it, and her web site www.signingbaby.com. How did you get started using baby sign language? In the year 2000, my second son was around 11 months old. I saw a television program about a baby girl who could use sign language to show her mother that her teeth … Continue reading →

Come Sign With Me

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My husband’s step-mother transliterates for a living. A transliterater is someone who uses American Sign Language to communicate a lecture or discussion for deaf students and others. She works in a college system and enjoys the experience of living and working in two different, yet parallel communities. She was one of the first people to mention sign language for babies – a growing and popular trend in infant and toddler development. The Desire to Communicate The desire to communicate is very strong in humans and it is present from the moment our babies draw their first breath of air and … Continue reading →

Baby Sign Language

Babies use gestures to communicate from an early age. They might point at a toy that they want or wave bye-bye. The fine muscles in a baby’s hands are developed long before they can speak. Remember how your baby could find a minute piece of something off the floor and pick it up, but couldn’t tell you that they wanted a drink. Baby signing takes the babies natural inclination to use gestures and gives them meaning. What is baby signing? More and more parents are teaching their babies signs so that they can communicate with their child before they can … Continue reading →