I love baby sign, and with baby number four, it has been amazing. She picks them up SO fast! She was signing for milk long, long before she was talking. I completely agree that babies who learn sign language talk faster than babies that don’t. You can watch it with each new sign she learns — before long, she is saying it as she signs.

Another great resource we have come across is “My Smart Hands Baby Sign Dictionary.” It is an app for Android phones (I imagine there is an iPhone one, too), with videos for each sign. There is a free version with the basics, and for $5 you can get the full version with somewhere around 300 signs in it. With the use of that app, baby’s vocabulary has just exploded! She likes to hold my phone and watch the video to learn new signs.

Mandie,

That’s so great that you are learning so much and teaching Logan! I had no idea sign language would qualify as a second language. Very cool!

Thanks to Sara, I knew some basic signs when Logan was born. I used the Baby Einstein when he was little, and he had them down quickly. Unfortunately, since he had been vaccinated, he was slow at verbal language, so having sign was imperative.

I ended up signing up for a college class (continuing ed) recently, and I’ve loved learning more vocabulary and teaching them to L, even though he’s talking fine now. The class was only 60 bucks at my local community college. I’ll be signing up for the advanced class this fall, because I have to keep ahead of him! This will also qualify as his second language when he’s homeschooling.

We taught our kids sign. What a wonderful difference!! We have kept up teaching them and have picked up a few of the “Signing Times” DVDs. They don’t have one for teaching your baby to sign… Maybe I can suggest it to them.

Thankfully we knew enough sign to teach our little ones the basics, starting around a year old.

Oh Thats wonderful! I had wanted to teach my boys sign for a while and had actually hoped to do it with my youngest. Unfortunately, I couldnt find a good resource for teaching babies. Thanks!