Comments on: Teach Your Baby Sign Language

By: Janine

Janine — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:43:32 +0000

We are huge Signing Time fans too! We have 2 girls, ages 5 and 2 1/2, both are hearing with no developmental delays and have found that teaching ASL has been a great way to improve their communication skills, develop vocabulary, and serve as a bridge to learning to read! It is amazing, and the DVDs are ones that are enjoyable over and over again! The songs are great, and the approach through music, graphics, video are a great educational tool! We highly recommend all volumes beginning with the Baby Signing Time series and the first volumes for learning first signs such as ‘eat’ ‘more’ ‘please’ ‘thank you’ ‘share’, etc to the more advanced ones that teach the alphabet, animals, colors, sports, and other common terms and phrases! http://www.signingtime.com.

By: Cricket

Cricket — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:39:48 +0000

I love the Signing Time videos! They helped our family through the communication frustration after our son was diagnosed with Apraxia of Speech, at age 4.
Now, at age 8, signing (with verbal approximation) is his main source of communication. I wish we would have started using Sign Language sooner.

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:40:32 +0000

More signing time fans here. Our little guy has developmental issues due to seizures. He’s nearly 3 but only uses about 5-7 words. We watched Signing Time and chose the words we felt were most important for him to learn. The best thing is that his 4 year old brother loves to watch them and is teaching new signs to his brother. We were able to borrow the dvd’s from the early intervention dept of the school system. But I’m planning on buy them in the future. I think they would be beneficial for any child or parent.

By: Christina

Christina — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:25:26 +0000

My 2 1/2 year old was VERY behind on the talking by his 2nd birthday. I found the Signing Time DVD at the library and figured I’d try it, I had already taught him 4 signs (more,cup, eat,cookie- they were the only ones I could remember) so I was hoping he would pick up more and be less frustrated all the time. Imagine my surprise when, after watching Vol. 3 about 4 times over 2 days, he was signing things like cheese, hungry, ice cream, candy, apple and banana. The best part? My previously grunting child was saying the words WITH the signs.
He’s still behind on the talking but he can communicate better and he tries to say the words more often than not. We now have Vol 1,2,3 & 5 and he loves them all.

Christina

By: Trish

Trish — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:22:41 +0000

I also have to jump in here with praise for Signing Time. Our family has enjoyed watching the videos and learning the signs.

By: MonicaMonica

MonicaMonica — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:55:53 +0000

I cannot say enough good things about the Baby Signing Time DVD’s – they have worked with both of our girls and we loved being able to communicate with them way before the verbal skills emerged!

By: CatherineYbarra

CatherineYbarra — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:14:41 +0000

We are also a Signing Time family! I first learned about Signing Time from other triplet parents. I started using sign language with my boys at the age of one. I wish I had started earlier! My boys knew their alphabet (upper and lowercase) at the age of two. It helped their verbal skills as well.

I have known a lot of babies to start signing anywhere from 6-9 months old (milk is usually the first sign). You can also find Baby Signing Time DVDs at the website, too!

By: Gina

Gina — Mon, 19 May 2008 22:04:46 +0000

Our family has been Signing Time fans for about 5 years now! We own them all and they have been absolutely instrumental in my 3 kids lives..I can’t rave enough about how wonderful these DVDs are for teaching sign language. The benefits of a child knowing sign language are mind boggling! I highly recommend looking into these DVDs at http://www.signingtime.com. Also, check your local PBS listings as Signing Time comes on many PBS stations across the country.