Baby Signing For Dummies - Brossura

Watson, Jennifer

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0471773867 ISBN 13: 9780471773863

Casa editrice: For Dummies, 2006

Riassunto

Have you thought about signing with your baby or toddler? Parents and caregivers are discovering the benefits of using American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate with children long before they can speak. Some studies show that signing babies talk sooner, have larger vocabularies, and have fewer tantrums!

Baby Signing For Dummies gives you the skills to connect in a meaningful way with your hearing baby or toddler. Packed with more than 150 illustrated signs, this friendly, easy-to-follow guide shows you how to use simple hand gestures and baby-specific signing techniques to start interacting with your baby. Every sign is accompanied by step-by-step directions and an illustrationfrom meeting and greeting, people, and mealtime signs to clothes, animals, outdoor signs, and, of course, bath time and bedtime. Youll discover how to:

• Introduce signs to your baby
• Incorporate signing into daily life
• Make everyday events easier with signs
• Overcome stumbling blocks
• Decrease fussing and crying through signing
• Help your baby sign combinations of words
• Keep your baby safe with signing
• Get the whole family involved
• Find outside help (Web sites, videos, and signing schools and courses)

Complete with illustrations of the entire ASL alphabet, signing dos and donts, and ten songs to sign along with, Baby Signing For Dummies is the key to enhancing communication with your child and increasing his/her intelligence in a simple, fun, and rewarding way!

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Informazioni sull'autore

Jennifer Hill Watson is the mom to three signing children. She began signing with her first daughter when her daughter was about 6 months old. At 41/2 years, her oldest now has over 300 signs. Jennifers second daughter is nearing 300 signs at age 31/2. Her son has 116 signs and 154 words at 19 months.
A former teacher, Jennifer has taught in both private schools and Houston public schools. She teaches signing classes for babies and their parents in the Houston area and helps lead the Houston Signing Babies support group both on the Web and at regular meetings.
Jennifer also speaks at national conferences to teachers on using American Sign Language in the classroom. Jennifer works with McGraw-Hill/Wright Groups Early Childhood Division as an Early Childhood Consultant and teacher trainer. She volunteers as director of a preschool choir and leads confirmation classes with sixth graders in her church.
She has a bachelor of science from Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas. Jennifer and her family currently live in Katy, Texas.

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Packed with more than 150 illustrated signs

Now you're talking! Communicate with signing and strengthen your bond

Want to sign with your baby? This easy-to-use guide shows you how to use sign-language gestures to communicate with hearing infants and toddlers. Using baby-specific signing techniques, you'll see how to lessen frustration and crying, as well as teach signs for every part of baby's day. You may even improve baby's IQ!

Discover how to

• Introduce signs to your baby
• Get the whole family involved
• Make bedtime easier with signs
• Keep baby safe with signing
• Overcome stumbling blocks

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: For Dummies
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0471773867
• ISBN 13: 9780471773863
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 290
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: Danilo Gaviraghi; 0039 02 733142; danilo.gaviraghi@hoepli.it; ; Via Hoepli 5; Milano; 20121; Italia