BABY SIGN LANGUAGE

christinasullie37

When is is appropriate to start exposing LO to baby sign language?  I am very interested in this.  Can anyone recommend a good book.

 

Lanibee

You can start right away, we already sign to our son and our daughter signs to him as well. I personally would just start with the basic signs Milk, More, Please, All Done, Mom, Dad and maybe Thank you. Than as you want to expand their signs you can start to look for books. I eventually moved to actual ASL books (not sign language books)

candaceleigh21

We sign now for milk and thank you.

morrkim

I do some signing, but I forget to do it on a regular basis.  We work on milk, mom, eat, more, book, and dad.

ChristyML

I don't do it on a daily basis either. I'll just sign "all done" when we're done changing his diaper though, just without thinking about it. I also tried to do "more" and "please". I think the fewer you start with, the faster they learn them.

Wally3

With ds1 we did more and all done.  It was really helpfully.

hmp1

Daycare does it in the infant room so as early as possible just like any other form of language.

tortuga47

I already sign with him, but it's obviously too early for him to sign back. I figure I might as well get in the habit myself. The book I have is "Teach Your baby To Sign" by Monica Beyer. I like it.