Baby sign language
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Topic: Baby sign language
Posted By: Madiandmini
Subject: Baby sign language
Date Posted: 03 July 2009 at 1:39pm
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Hey everyone.
I have a six month old and really just wanted to say how proud I am of her. I started using baby sign language at around 3months. Obviously she could not do them back but by giving a word an action she has caught on. The main one we use is milk. Only a few days ago she was whinging. Just before her whinge became a cry she began doing the sign for milk. After her feed she was content as ever! Over the past week she has begun using it more and more often, and it seems she is calmer - less whining and crying etc. Its so brilliant I was wondering if other mums are using it?? |
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Posted By: LeahandJoel
Date Posted: 03 July 2009 at 2:01pm
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I have been doing it since Joel was about 6 months...I tend to forget ubtil we have already doing whatever it is, but when we do milk or eat he gets all excited and starts grunting!! No signs that iv'e seen but DH swears he saw milk when Joel was in the bath a couple of weeks ago...he has his bottle after his bath so maybe! -------------  
 
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Posted By: Madiandmini
Date Posted: 03 July 2009 at 2:42pm
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It is so exciting!
I didn't expect her to be signing yet. But it sounds to me like your bubs understands! I have read heaps of stories where babies show no sign of interest and then one day just start signing like mad. So maybe it is just a case of when there ready.. |
Posted By: dinkyminky
Date Posted: 03 July 2009 at 3:23pm
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Oh my Golly, thats so impressive!!! Well done! Can I ask you both how you started teaching your bubs? ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: LeahandJoel
Date Posted: 03 July 2009 at 5:19pm
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I bought a chart from TM and have pinned it to the wall above his highchair so that I see it all the time. There are photos on it and a description of how to do it....you can get books with more in depth stuff and lots more signs but I only wanted something basic in case we didn't stick with it. Every time he eats I keep saying , lets eat and doing the sign etc. With his milk I just use the milk sign and say bottle and he definately knows that one...I am also starting the sign for finished and hurt as well. mainly concentrating on what we feel are the important ones to us. I feel like a bit of an idiot sometimes but Leah also does them to him as well, so at least she has learnt them!!!! -------------
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Posted By: Madiandmini
Date Posted: 03 July 2009 at 7:35pm
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Thank you! I was also given a chart and the book. Ive just been repeating the sign with the word. And she seems to have picked it up really well. Just a repetition thing I think. Another good one to teach baby is home, brilliant for when you are out and about and dd is tired! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: kiwikid
Date Posted: 04 July 2009 at 8:12am
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We go to a baby sign language class once a week and Hayden loves it, started when he was 9mths and he picked up the sign for milk that first week and in the 8/9 weeks we have been going he's learnt food/eat, drink, duck, bird, plane - he tends to pick the up the ones related to the things he likes, I've been trying more, all gone, hurt all reasonably consistently but he's not cottoned on to them yet. But the great thing is its teaching him to talk as well he learnt to say bird and sign it at the same time and is trying to do the same with plane, I know what he means but its not quite there yet (plah plah). Likewise with his signs some of them are not perfect but the teacher says that is just fine and he'll get better in time, the most important thing is that he's communicating - I love that he can tell me what he needs so we'll be going to the next term as well. ------------- 
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Posted By: Madiandmini
Date Posted: 04 July 2009 at 10:21am
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Wow thats great! I read in a baby sign book that babies that sign speak more words and know more words than their non-signing peers. Great isn't it ! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Basil_brush
Date Posted: 05 July 2009 at 4:16pm
| Can I ask where are your baby sign language classes? |
Posted By: angel4
Date Posted: 05 July 2009 at 7:02pm
| oh baby sign classes would be great. We have been doing it with henry for a while but arent very consistent at it. Would be cool if there were weekly classes as it might keep dh and i more motivated lol. Who are you're classes through kiwikid? |
Posted By: Madiandmini
Date Posted: 05 July 2009 at 7:41pm
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Maybe ohbaby should start an eclass! (Email Class) That would be cool. Baby sign should be more widely recognised I think. Its so brilliant ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: DJ
Date Posted: 06 July 2009 at 2:17pm
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Wow - signing from 6 mths is pretty clever I think! Perhaps I should start earlier with #2.
I started signing at around 6mths with DD and she started signing a couple of months later- we had great success with it. She talks a lot more than all the other kids we know her age and still signs for emphasis - or in a noisey cafe when I can't hear her. We learned from a book - no problems. Highly recommend it. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: kiwikid
Date Posted: 07 July 2009 at 8:21am
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I'm in England so not much use but the two franchises I've heard of here are Tiny Talk (which we go to) and Sing n Sign. The format is really great, goes 1.30pm to 2.30pm, first half hour is singing nursery rhymes and signing - some we sit on the floor for, some we are sitting on our chairs and some we walk around the room in a big circle - and then signs of the day (what, where, mummy, daddy, bath etc etc) then either a story with the teacher using just a few key signs or musical instruments for the kids and rousing 'She'll be coming round the mountain' type songs and then the last half hour the teacher brings out a huge bag of toys for all the little ones to play with while the mummies have tea/coffee and biccies and a good old natter.
I like that its social for the kids and the mums and includes lots of singing so I dont need to pay to go to another music type class as this covers that side too. -------------
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