Product Description: Give your child the gift of conversation with Small Talk!You are your child's most valuable resource when it comes to learning to talk. In Small Talk, speech and language therapist Nicola Lathey and parenting journalist Tracey Blake demystify the six stages of language learning, from "Pre-Babble" to "Complete Sentences," so you can tune in to what your child is saying―or trying to say! You'll also learn: • Why the babbling stage is so important• How to encourage your baby's first words • Communication techniques to calm your toddler’s tantrums • The truth about pacifiers, baby signing,and the impact of TV on language development • Causes for concern and where to turn for help...read more

Product Description: Communicate with your baby--today!With Essential Baby Sign Language, you can feel closer to your baby than you ever thought possible! Featuring seventy-five of the most important signs babies need every day, this book helps you start signing now, without spending hours learning extensive philosophy and sifting through hundreds of valueless terms...read more

Product Description: Is your baby hungry or tired? Does she have a tummy ache or does he just need a diaper change? It’s easy to know when you and your baby learn to sign together. Studies show that babies who sign develop increased vocabularies, experience less frustration, and begin to speak earlier...read more

Product Description: Human languages are very economical systems of knowledge, which usually contribute to the formation and interpretation of an utterance only what cannot be supplied by other conceptual systems. Thus, conceptual underspecification and context-dependence are essential properties, which vary from one particular language to the next in dependence on the structural make-up a given language belongs to...read more

Product Description: Since 2004, Baby Sign Language Basics has introduced hundreds of thousands of parents and caregivers around the globe to the miracle of signing with their babies – and left them wanting more! Now, in this new bigger edition, Monta Briant provides more than 300 American Sign Language (ASL) signs, illustrated with the same clear, easy-to-understand photos and descriptions...read more

Product Description: The first baby sign pop-up book created by Sabuda & Reinhart Pop-Ups.The first baby sign pop-up book created by Sabuda & Reinhart Pop-Ups.Learn the basic signs to help your baby or toddler communicate with you. From early morning wake-up to eating, to playtime and bedtime, Baby Signs will teach baby and parent their first fifteen signs to facilitate language development...read more

Product Description: Experienced ASL instructor Leann Sebrey champions two-way sign communication between parents and their infants who are just months old as a way to bond more closely and reduce frustration, while also maximizing the children’s intelligence and emotional quotients...read more

Product Description: The most-asked questions author Nancy Cadjan gets are My baby is 6 months so what signs should I start with? Or My baby is 12 months so is it too late to sign with her? Or My son is 19 months but not talking at all so can signing help us?Her new book Baby Signing 1 2 3 The Easy-to-Use Illustrated Guide for Every Age and Every Stage is the answer to these questions and many more...read more

A basic ASL reference demonstrates a range of simple hand signs that can ease communications between parents and pre-verbal babies, in a visual guide that is presented in a stand-up format and utilizes songs, games, and easy instructions. Original. 60,000 first printing.

Adorable illustrations, simple text, short stories, and simple instructions are presented in this colorful picture book designed to introduce simple sign language to babies and toddlers in order to promote early communication between parent and child.

Product Description: Sign language is a communication system that speech pathologists have used for years with hearing-impaired and special-needs children to help bridge their communication gap. Using sign language with normally-developing children is becoming more popular now because very young children can understand more than they can communicate using standard speech...read more

Product Description: Why are thousands of hearing parents signing with their hearing babies? According to a long-term study at UC Davis, funded by the National Institutes of Health, signing babies:   •            talk sooner and have larger vocabularies •            have stronger parent/child bonds •            have less frustration, crying and tantrums •            show more interest in books •            engage in more sophisticated play •            have increased IQ scores   Signing also increases baby’s self-esteem and gives parents a window into their child’s mind and personality...read more

Through baby signing that parents can teach to their children, youngsters can learn to communicate sooner, before their vocal chords are developed, which increases children's self-esteem.

Through baby signing that parents can teach to their children, youngsters can communicate when they want more, when something is too hot, or even to let everyone know the food is 'all gone!'

Product Description: With this new book Alice Honig addresses a neglected area in child development - how to help low literacy parents and parents for whom English is a second language enchance the literacy and cognitive development of their children in the home environment and through daily routines...read more

Product Description: A parent's journey through the early years of a child's life is composed of exciting and surprisingly rapid changes in its growth. In 'Baby Talk', Monica Devine, a seasoned expert in the field of speech and language pathology, helps parents to enhance communication skills in the early stages of infancy and toddler hood through a delightful array of age-appropriate activities and games which are typically built into daily routines...read more