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Baby Signs: How to Talk with Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk, Third Edition

by Linda Acredolo

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A practical introduction to signing with preverbal babies

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A practical introduction to signing with preverbal babies

This updated third edition presents the Baby Signs program as a way for parents and caregivers to communicate with babies before spoken language develops. It combines an American Sign Language-based approach with 35 alternative gestures designed to be baby-friendly, while an illustrated dictionary covers 150 signs. The book also addresses using signs around everyday needs and routines, including potty training. Alongside its how-to material, it presents research and family accounts concerning communication, emotional development, parent-child relationships, and frustration in childcare contexts. A hands-on parenting guide centered on building a shared gesture vocabulary during infancy.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Parents and caregivers of babies interested in early nonverbal communication
  • Families seeking illustrated sign references and baby-friendly gesture alternatives
  • Caregivers navigating daily routines such as potty training

Themes

Infant communicationBaby sign languageParent-child relationshipsEmotional developmentPotty training

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Book overview

The Essential Parenting Guide-NOW COMPLETELY UPDATED AND EXPANDED!

In 1982, child development experts Linda Acredolo, Ph.D., and Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D., discovered that babies can communicate with simple signs-even before they're able to talk. The result: Baby Signs, the groundbreaking technique that has changed parenting forever.

Now, with the widespread popularity of signing with hearing babies and new and exciting research findings to report, the authors have completely revised and expanded Baby Signs to create this indispensable new edition. Featuring an American Sign Language approach, as well as a set of "baby-friendly" alternatives, this comprehensive new program offers all the information any parent needs to join the hundreds of thousands of families around the world who are using Baby Signs to help their children communicate their "joys and fears without tears." (Newsweek)

Inside you will find . . .

  • An expanded dictionary with easy-to-follow photos of 150 ASL signs along with a set of 35 "baby-friendly" alternatives
  • New research showing the benefits of Baby Signs for children's emotional development, for the parent-child relationship, and for reducing frustration and aggression in childcare settings
  • Information to help parents use the magic of Baby Signs to meet the challenges of potty training (as seen on CBS's The Doctors)
  • Real-life stories of parents achieving both stunning and heartwarming communication breakthroughs with their children
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