Sign With Your Baby: How to Communicate with Infants before They Can Speak

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Babies have control over their hands long before they develop the fine motor skills required for speech. By teaching their infants to sign, starting as early as eight months, more and more parents, grandparents and caregivers are recognizing the many benefits of this early communication.

In Sign with your Baby, author and researcher Joseph Garcia offers a straightforward and lighthearted approach to teaching infants how to communicate using simple sign language. Mr. Garcia's system draws from his years of research in early childhood development and from his own personal experience teaching his two sons. This method does not require learning an entire new language. Rather, Joseph teaches how using a few simple gestures can make a big difference in empowering and meeting the needs of your baby.

SYNOPSIS

This book teaches hearing parents how to use simple sign language gestures to communicate with their hearing infants before their infants can speak. Joseph Garcia uses anecdotes, practical guidelines and humor to explain the benefits and method for taking advantage of this unique form of early communication. He will help you recognize when your child is receptive to learning. He recommends which signs to teach first and shares ideas for games that can be fun and useful when introducing new signs. The book is also a useful reference with 145 clearly illustrated signs, enabling you to choose and teach the signs that will be most beneficial to you and your child. This book is also included in the Sign with your Baby Complete Learning Kit - which is comprised of the book, 60 minute training video and quick reference guide.

About the Author:

Joseph Garcia, born in1949, is a communications specialist who has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at many colleges and universities in the Northwestern United States. During the last 20 years, Joseph was principal investigator for 109 private research grants. He has developed teaching and training materials for youth-related projects and the health care industry. He was appointed to and served two years on the Alaska Governor's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped. Joseph was awarded the Bishop Foundation Youth Leader of the Year Award, and was also nominated by the Washington State Service Corps for the Temple Award for Creative Altruism from the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

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