Knack Baby Sign Language: A Step-By-Step Guide To Communicating With Your Little One

by Suzie Chafin, Johnston Bell Grindstaff, Johnston Grindstaff (Photographs)

Few children can communicate effectively before eighteen months of age, but sign language can allow baby and parent to reduce the frustration up to a year earlier. With more than 450 full-color photos, text, and sidebars, Knack Baby Sign Language provides a user-friendly, efficient method to learn and teach a baby sign language. Organized by age, it provides signs appropriate to use with babies, with toddlers, and with older children for whom signing with games, songs, and rhymes is enriching. The signs can also be used with special needs children and those with delayed communication abilities.

Genres: Nonfiction

256 pages, Paperback

First published December 28, 2009

Reviews

[Korin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked this book, and thought it was pretty resourceful but I didn’t love it and wouldn’t buy it (I borrowed it from the library!)
My main reason for this is because while the photos of kiddos doing the signs are sweet and show how kids will probably do the signs differently, the written description of the signs was lacking for me. I also have VERY LITTLE KNOWLEDGE OF ASL.

I’m trying to teach my baby sign language, and also learn some myself to help her communicate… but also for my students in daycare! If I can’t do the sign correctly, how can I teach any of them properly? I don’t want to teach them incorrectly.

I did like the tips throughout the book of childcare and safety etc.
I may have liked this book better if drawn diagrams for the signs were included under the written description of how to do them.