The First Signs Are Always The Hardest ~ Chris
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- Easier Signs To Learn Vs. Harder Signs ~ Chris
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- Table Of Contents
- Can all babies do this?
- Chapter summary
- Comparing non-signers to their signing cousins
- Compliance testing and understanding confirmation
- Conventions used in this book
- History of baby sign language
- How This Book Fits Into The Definitive Guide To Signing With Your Hearing Baby System
- How to use this book
- Introduction
- Is this some kind of new-age fad thing?
- Should I use ASL or make up my own signs – homesigns?
- So if I teach ASL to my baby, will I have to learn a new language?
- Tantrum reduction – a benefit all onto itself!
- Top reasons to teach baby sign language (summary)
- What exactly is sign language for babies?
- What if I have no time?
- What if you come across people who object? How to fight the skeptics
- What is ASL specifically?
- Where’s the proof that signing helps instead of hinders language; show me the numbers!
- Why should I sign to my baby?
- Won’t my baby be delayed in speaking?
- Chapter 2
- A day in the life of a signing parent
- A first sign? – It’s always so hard to tell at first
- Allowing for creativity
- Chapter summary
- Having fun
- How long does it take to learn a sign?
- Introduction
- Leaving signing children with non-signing caregivers
- Looking for sign readiness – signs your baby is ready to start signing
- Not overwhelming for you and your baby
- Receptive language as a clue to first signs (or expressive language)
- The developmental stages of baby sign language – When you can expect results
- The sequence of signing in babies
- Variables In Baby Signing
- When should I start signing to my baby?
- Chapter 3
- Chapter summary
- Getting started – Choosing 5-10 signs and get going
- Introduction
- Signing as a means to an end – the lazy person’s signing short list
- Teaching motivating signs is important
- The signing explosion – when signs are added exponentially!
- The signing lull
- Which signs are bad to start with? – A primer on complicated signs
- Which signs to start with? (Properly choosing your first signs)
- Your baby’s first sign approximations – don’t expect perfection
- Chapter 4
- Be consistent with your signs
- Chapter summary
- Emphasize the words you want them to sign (the key words)
- Encourage any and all efforts
- Fourteen rules to teaching baby sign language
- Get down on baby’s level
- Getting baby’s attention
- Getting excited as a reward
- How to make signs – the mechanics of sign language
- Introduction
- Keeping up the pace, don’t give up!
- Looking for teachable moments
- Rewarding accidents
- Sign in baby’s field of vision
- Sign in full sentences – instead of signing full sentences
- Sign throughout the day
- Signing in context, sign in the moment
- Signing often and repeating
- Slow down your speech
- Chapter 5 – Techniques To Teach Baby Sign Language
- Being very animated and use exaggerated facial expressions when teaching signs
- Catch baby wanting something
- Catching “pointed gaze”
- Chapter summary
- Continuous reintroduction
- Delayed physical prompting and delayed modeling
- Enlisting your family and friends to help
- Guiding them to do the sign – physical prompting
- How my son learned his first sign
- Setting up choices for your baby
- Sign Modeling
- Signing on your child’s body
- Some ways to talk to your baby
- Using body language to reinforce behaviors
- Using highchairs and feeding times to teach
- Using touch to teach sign language
- When do I add more signs?
- Chapter 6 – Techniques To Teach specific signs
- Introduction
- Teaching Activities – BALL, BOOK, MUSIC, DANCE, PLAY, HIDE, JUMP, WALK
- Teaching Animal Signs – DOGS, CATS, BIRDS, SQUIRRELS, BUTTERFLY, BUGS, SPIDERS, FROGS,RABBITS, HORSES, COWS, BEARS, SNAKES, CROCODILLES, ELEPHANTS, LIONS, GIRAFFES, KANGAROOS, MONKEYS, SNAKES, RABBITS, FISH.
- Teaching DIAPER CHANGE
- Teaching food and drink – ALL DONE/FINISHED, BANANA, APPLE, RAISIN, PEACH, JUICE, MEAT, COOKIE, CRACKER, CEREAL, TOAST, TOMATOES, EGG, BOTTLE, DRINK, ORANGE, WATER and HOT/COLD
- Techniques to teach the sign for HELP
- Techniques To Teaching EAT
- Techniques To Teaching Emotions – HAPPY, SAD, ANGRY, HUNGRY, TIRED, CRY, GOOD, BAD, FUN, SCARED, LAUGH, LOVE, SILLY, FROWN, FUN, SMILE
- Techniques To Teaching Manners – PLEASE, THANK YOU, YOU’RE WELCOME, TAKE TURNS, SORRY and SHARE
- Techniques To Teaching MORE
- Techniques To Teaching Safety and Behaviours – NO TOUCH, TOUCH GENTLE, WAIT, QUIET, STOP, YES, NO, GOOD, BAD
- Techniques to teaching the sign for “HURT”
- Techniques To Teaching “MILK”
- Chapter 7 – Cautions and Troubleshooting
- Allowing for signing approximations
- Anticipating needs inhibits signing
- Are we even making progress?
- Avoid competing with other children
- Baby knows a sign, but won’t use it?
- Baby makes up signs or pretends to do signs for words he doesn’t even know!
- Chapter summary
- Do I really need to keep signing words after my baby signs them back?
- Forcing signs or expecting too much – allow baby to absorb signs
- Giving up too easily
- Introduction
- It’s all about timing
- My baby just won’t sign, now what?
- No matter what I do, my baby just won’t learn a particular sign
- Not being consistent
- Not use motivating signs
- Setting limits to avoid spoiling
- Starting with too few signs
- Staying the course
- The same sign for everything
- What happens when baby flat out uses the wrong signs?
- What if I don’t know the sign or there isn’t one?
- What if I’m the only one signing to my baby?
- What to do when signs become confused?
- When signs all look the same
- Will babies be confused when non-signing babies don’t respond?
- Your baby suddenly stops using a sign
- Chapter 8 – The Advanced Signer
- Chapter summary
- Finger spelling with your baby
- Introduction
- Other advanced signing concepts – combining signs or signed sentences
- Some of the benefits of continuing to sign into toddlerhood
- Toddler signs to clarify
- What happens when baby starts talking?
- Why signing should continue
- You and your baby’s secret signs
- Chapter 9 – Speech and Language Concerns
- Chapter 10 – Questions and Answers
- Table Of Contents
- Blog
- Why Teach Baby Sign
- History of Baby Sign
- Baby Sign FAQ
- Baby Sign Research
- Conventions Used
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