At 11:42 PM 7/30/01, Darryl wrote:
>Well, the best book on the subject:
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>Sign With Your Baby : How to Communicate With Infants Before They Can
>Speak (book only)
>by W. Joseph Garcia, et al
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>Amazon.com
>Sign with Your Baby Complete Learning Kit will enable you to
>communicate at new levels with your baby long before she can speak.
>This comprehensive package of book, video, and reference guide shows
>how simple gestures can... Read more....
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>And quick google search turned up www.signwithyourbaby.com AND
>www.signTOyourbaby.com. I'd recommend Joseph Garcia's book, especially
>if you don't know any signs yet since it includes a short dictionary of
>simple signs you might like to use. Another interesting book (albeit
>about deafness) is Oliver Sacks' "Seeing Voices". This is the guy who
>wrote "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat".* Seeing Voices is about
>the neurological effects of signing.
>
>But, you don't really have to do much research. Just learn a few signs
>yourself and use them. "Milk", "More", "Mommy", "Daddy" and "Eat" are
>usually the first ones. Just do the signs when you talk with your
>baby. Don't expect them to make signs back until they are 8-12 months
>old, althought they might do so earlier.
And if the first sign baby makes involves a single finger, shame on Mommy
and Daddy!
--Ronn! :)
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