Sing & Sign with babies

Sing and sign is a programme of familiar nursery songs and rhymes that teach babies and toddlers simple gestures by which they learn to communicate. It’s fun for parents and babies and engages the little ones that already recognise the popular songs.

Baby signing is a natural and normal process; even babies that haven’t gone through any training sign daily to communicate from a very early age. By singing and signing you enjoy a bonding experience with your baby. You only need to learn a few signs, some of them you will find familiar and the others easy to remember.

By teaching through music the experience of learning baby signing becomes easy and fun. Babies love repetition, they will learn the songs along with the signs and very soon you can see amazing results, as they enjoy the songs they will start signing along in short time.

Although sign language is practiced with babies from very early age, sing and sign have proved to be more beneficial for babies from 6 months onwards, as this is the stage where children start using signs more actively to communicate.

If you want to try it at home, there are different types of material you can try, DVDs or books. We recommend:
The very popular DVDs

Sing & Sign Books:

Sign with your baby

Every parent feels the frustration of trying to figure out what is the reason of their baby’s sudden cry; we often wonder what is going on inside her little head. It is hard for the adult and harder for the little one that feels the frustration of trying to communicate her needs without mastering the basics of the articulated language.

Now, imagine how wonderful your life would be if you could stop playing that guessing game and learn a way in which you could communicate with your baby, and she could really communicate back.

Research has shown that babies exposed to sign language from as early as 6 months of age, start using this form of communication by the ninth month.

As strange as this idea may sound, it is based on the children’s natural predisposition to use their own gestures to communicate with the outside world, pointing at objects and using their body language in different ways to convey their intended meaning.

Signing with babies is gaining more and more popularity, being of benefit not only to the babies but also to the parents.

For babies, these include such benefits as:

• Less time crying. Signing allows your baby to communicate clearly, allowing more positive interactions between parents and babies.

• Signing reduces frustration. Babies feel less frustrated when they are able to communicate their needs, parents can now respond to those specific needs and identify pain or injuries.

• Increases children self-confidence, sense of empowerment.

• Increased language development. Research shows that babies who sign usually talk sooner and develop a wider vocabulary, they also show more interest in books.

• Increased IQ! It has been claim that babies who sign have an IQ 12 to 14 points higher than other children by the age of seven.

• It creates a special bonding experience between parents and children, which contributes to babies’ happiness.

Since the development of the Sign with your baby program, the method has been used in many different countries, receiving numerous awards and covered by different media around the world.

Sign with Your Baby: How to Communicate with Infants Before They Can Speak is the book in which the American child development expert Dr. Joseph Garcia teaches you step by step how to communicate with your baby.