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Signing Smart with Babies and Toddlers: A Parent's Strategy and Activity Guide

by Michelle Anthony

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An activity-based introduction to signing with young children

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An activity-based introduction to signing with young children

Built around everyday routines such as meals, baths, and play, this parenting guide presents the Signing Smart system for introducing American Sign Language signs to hearing infants and toddlers. More than seventy activities provide a practical framework for building a child’s sign and spoken-word vocabulary, while the illustrated dictionary supplies 130 signs for reference. The book frames signing as a way for children to communicate needs and wants before speech is fully developed, addressing common moments of frustration while supporting early communication and learning. Its material spans the period from around five months through preschool age.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Parents and caregivers of hearing infants and toddlers
  • Families interested in incorporating ASL signs into daily routines
  • Adults seeking structured signing activities and a sign dictionary

Themes

Early communicationAmerican Sign LanguageParent-child interactionInfant and toddler developmentEveryday routines

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Book overview

A Fun, Easy Way to Talk with Your Baby

Babies can communicate with their hands long before they can speak. Using American Sign Language (ASL), Dr. Michelle Anthony and Dr. Reyna Lindert have created the simple and successful Signing Smart system to teach parents how to integrate signing into everyday life with their hearing children. Through the more than seventy activities presented in this book, parents will learn the tools and strategies they need to understand how to introduce signing and build their child's sign and word vocabulary.

Using ASL signs and Signing Smart with hearing infants and toddlers has many benefits, including:

-reducing frustration and tantrums
-allowing children to express what they need or want
-facilitating speaking
-fostering communication and promoting learning

By using these practical, easy-to-learn methods, parents and babies-from as young as five months old to preschool age-can "converse" through signs at mealtime, bath time, playtime, or anytime.

Featuring the Signing Smart Illustrated Dictionary, with 130 signs.

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