Overview
Winner, Mom's Choice Gold AwardWith a new and comprehensive approach designed to help parents and caregivers sign successfully with hearing babies, this book features American Sign Language and its vocabulary and concepts. Specific and age-appropriate information is provided along with more than 100 signs that allow babies to clearly express their wants and needs with their hands. Parent-child communication frustrations can be greatly reduced through this language skill, supported here through simple instructions, effective baby signs, practical advice, clear photographic demonstrations, and baby signing activities. Additionally, research and theories supporting the benefits that hearing babies and their families receive from signing are provided.Reviews
"I enthusiastically recommend Babies Can Talk to all parents and professionals caring for infants. Open the window into a baby's mind and heart through sign language and you will be amazed at how much is going on in there that he wants and is able to share." —Jeanne E Ziter, MD, Pediatrician, Women's and Infants Hospital, Providence, RIAuthor Biography
Marilyn Daniels, PhD, is one of America's leading researchers, lecturers, and authors on using American Sign Language with young children to enhance early communication and learning. She has published a variety of magazine articles and books, including Dancing with Words: Signing for Hearing Children's Literacy. She lives in Newport, Vermont. Georgia Frawley, MA, has taught classes on child development, parenting, and marriage and family for more than 30 years, and has performed more than 1000 musical programs. She is the coauthor and producer of the We Sign DVD series and the coauthor of the Sign to Speak series. Ken Frawley has presented Play-Along Song programs for more than 20 years and has instructed early childhood professionals, teachers, and parents on how to use playful songs with children for fun, development, and learning. He has written and produced 200 children's songs. He is the coproducer of the We Sign DVD series that has won over 50 national awards of excellence and is the coauthor of the Sign to Speak series. They live in Orange, California.