BABY SIGNS HONG KONG

16/01/2024

"Learning and using Baby Sign Language helps infants build many skills, including:

Putting together two- or three-word phrases
Participating in conversations
Engaging in social interactions"

How many times have you wished your baby could tell you what’s wrong instead of crying and leaving you to guess? Baby Sign Language allows babies as young as 6 months old to communicate their needs instead of crying.

10/04/2023

Teach your baby sign language and gestures.

This is a proven method that will help children communicate before they can actually speak. Teach them simple sign language gestures to model and imitate. These things can be as simple as “more,” “want” or “please.

Talking to your infant may seem like a one-sided conversation. Even though, they cannot necessarily answer you back, the experts suggest that continuing

14/06/2022

This.

02/05/2022

The official blog for the Baby Signs® Program. The original sign language program for babies.

26/04/2022

Working Parents and Signing
Working parents sometimes ask me whether they can take advantage of the Baby Signs® Program because they are away from their baby for a good part of the day. The answer is a resounding “Yes!”

Even children in full-time care spend significantly more time with their parents than with outsiders. Who is it, after all, who provides the evening meal and bath, cuddles to read a bedtime book, responds to middle-of-the-night calls for help, and spends weekends dealing with every kind of need?
Read more:
https://babysignsinc.blogspot.com/2012/03/working-parents-and-signing.html

20/04/2022

"Children learn language by listening to language. The best way is through direct communication with real people..."
..and while you're at it, do include gestures (signs) whenever you talk with them, so that they can "talk" back and communicate sooner, especially when their verbal skills are not quite there yet, in the earlier months. 😊

All parents coo and make silly baby talk to their infant and baby. Now, a new study as reported by NeuroNet Learning found that talking to infants can boost their ability to learn new words and facilitate rapid vocabulary growth. The study, originally reported in Psychological Science, found that th...

16/04/2022

“How many times have you wished you could interpret those cries or get a peek inside their mind? That’s the very idea behind baby sign language...!”

Raising a toddler can sometimes feel like a never-ending game of guesswork. "When your little one is crying, are they hungry, thirsty, tired or do they

24/03/2022

07/03/2022

Research shows there are benefits not only for language and literacy skills, but also for other aspects of cognitive and socioemotional development --e.g. the development of numeracy and mathematics skills, the development of joint attention skills, opportunities for physical shared reading experience, etc.

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Reading with young children brings benefits beyond language and literacy skills