Baby Signs

How to talk with your baby before your baby can talk

Linda Acredolo and Susan Goodwyn

All parents, and grandparents, know how to teach a baby to wave bye-bye, and they are also aware of how quickly every child learns, long before beginning to talk, the ability to signal a strong ‘yes’ or ‘no’.

I can remember my babies sniffing at the sight of flowers, or making a stroking gesture when seeing a cat; and very early on a finger was pointed upwards at the sound of an aeroplane. So, if you played with your children in the way that I did, you will probably recall that you did communicate with your baby in many of the ways listed in this new book.

Both the authors are leading professionals in the field of infant communication, and have spent years of research into studying the importance of helping parents to develop a range of simple gestures for objects, events and needs. Their research shows that not only do these baby signs lead to better communication, it also speeds up the process of learning to talk.

The book is full of photographs of happy smiling children all ‘signing’ away, and if you need confirmation from the experts of what many parents have known for a long, long time, then this book will give you that reassurance.

Vermilion 

paperback  £12.99   ISBN 0091851688

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Review published 12 May 2003 © Jill Curtis 2003