Signing With Your Baby: Signing and Babysitters

Written by Monica Beyer


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Gill, also fromrepparttar UK, is getting ready to put her 2-year-old daughter Meadow in a day-care setting two days a week. As Meadow is an established signer and no longer a young baby, her concerns are less aboutrepparttar 111663 care providers using signs with Meadow and more about Meadow communicating with other children. "We've decided that we won't showrepparttar 111664 nursery anything more than HELP and a couple of other important signs," she said. "She's 2 years old now and will be in a group of 2- and 3-year-olds who she will interact with, but they won't be using signs."

Hints for consistency between home and day-care:

Let your sitter know fromrepparttar 111665 very beginning that you are signing with your baby.

Demonstraterepparttar 111666 signs your baby is likely to use. Bring along a sign language book or something similar that you can leave withrepparttar 111667 sitter each day for reference (the SWYB quick reference guide is great for this).

Let your sitter know which signs you're working on and tell her how to use them so your baby can learn new signs atrepparttar 111668 sitter's too. Keeprepparttar 111669 lines of communication open between you and your child's care giver, and invite questions at every opportunity.

With these ideas in mind, baby sitters and care givers will be an added benefit in your child's sign language communication.



Monica Beyer is the mother of two sons and has been signing with her younger son for over 1 year. Visit her website at http://www.signingbaby.com or email her at monica@signingbaby.com


Signing With Your Baby: The Signing Toddler

Written by Monica Beyer


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While he is now learning to put two spoken words together, he's been putting two and three signs together for months. He'll sign "mama" and "rain" if he wants me to look outrepparttar window and see it raining. He'll sign "cloud" and "bye-bye" if he seesrepparttar 111662 cloud on Teletubbies going away.

What is sad is to see some of his signs disappearing as he learns to sayrepparttar 111663 words. For a long time, he would both sign and say "mama" and "dada." Now he rarely uses either sign, but I still use them on occasion to remind him of those signs.

I definitely don't plan on stopping signing with Corbin any time soon. He is still eager to learn more signs and learning words right and left. I'm so glad I sign with Corbin because I feel it has really opened up a world of communication that wouldn't be there if we hadn't signed.



Monica Beyer is the mother of two sons and has been signing with her younger son for over 1 year. Visit her website at http://www.signingbaby.com or email her at monica@signingbaby.com


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