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Scientific research has revealed that a baby can understand and express much more than what was previously thought. Babies are able to express their wants, needs, observations and feelings by using basic American Sign Language with their parents and caregivers. By using signs, parents spend less time guessing what their child wants and more time fulfilling their needs. When babies are able to replace crying with simple hand gestures, this communication will allow you to focus on bonding instead of being frustrated with one another. Signing will provide you with a window into your child’s mind; establishing two-way communication, improving daily interactions and strengthening your relationship. Furthermore, research has proven that babies who learn sign language develop an interest to increase their communication ability and this results in advanced verbal skills.

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For Your Baby:

• Allows your infant to communicate specific wants, needs and thoughts
• Reduces frustration for your baby
• Strengthens the trust and respect between parent and child
• Signing will not delay speech development, but rather accelerates it
• Promotes larger vocabularies
• Increases interest in books
• Increases creative thinking
• Increases speed of spatial reasoning development
• May increase IQ
• Increases early literacy skills
• Teaches a second language that is formally recognized (ASL)
• Serves as a language bridge between English and non-English speakers

For Parents:

• Reduces frustration for you
• Reduces unexplainable emotional outbursts
• Increases parental confidence
• Strengthens the parent-infant relationship
• Helps parents and pediatricians identify injuries, pain and other ailments
• Helps parents identify potential dangers or concerns

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Incorporating signs into your daily routine with your child does not require fluency in American Sign Language (ASL), but rather it teaches that even a few simple gestures can help you communicate with and meet the needs of your child. Baby sign language is composed of shapes and motions made with hands and fingers that indicate words, concepts, and ideas that babies want to communicate. These are words like "eat," "milk," "wet," "more," "all done," "hurt," "sleepy," etc..

Our 90-minute Parent Workshop is an introductory class that teaches parents and caregivers what they need to know to get started with baby sign language, including:

• The history and research behind the Baby Signs, Inc. Program
• The benefits of learning baby sign language
• When to begin signing with your baby
• Effective ways to teach signs at home
• Easy ways to use signs in daily routines
• What to expect as your baby transitions from signs to speech

Each set of caregivers will receive a complete Baby Signs, Inc. Parent Kit ($35 value) to supplement learning at home. This class is designed for parents and caregivers of hearing children ages birth to 2 ½ years. You do not need to bring your little one to this session since it’s not an interactive “play” workshop, but are welcome to do so.

The Sign, Say & Play ™ Workshop is a 6-week series of play classes for parents and their babies in 45-minute sessions. In this interactive class, parents and their children will learn the gestures and motions that represent the most useful baby signs. Additionally, we will teach strategies on how best to use these signs with your baby to utilize the full potential of this ability, resulting in advanced verbal skills. This workshop covers the following:

• Highlights signs that are most important in the lives of babies
• Covers signs from the following every day themes: Mealtime, Bedtime, Bathtime, Pets, At the Park and Getting Dressed
• Teaches signing through fun games with BeeBo™ the Baby Signs® Bear
• Provides signing practice through delightful Baby Signs® songs
• Introduces play activities that reinforce important language, cognitive and social- emotional skills
• Brings families together to share their signing experiences

This class is designed for parents and children ages 6 months to 2 ½ years.

The MORE Sign, Say & Play™ workshop is an extension of our Sign, Say & Play™ classes for parents and their babies. These classes follow the familiar Sign, Say & Play™ format with fun songs, games and activities that introduce new signs covering every day themes including: Feelings, Outside, Safety, Farm, Zoo and Birthday. This class is designed for parents and children ages 8 months to 2 ½ years with previous signing experience.

Baby Guru also offers the Baby Signs, Inc. Early Childhood Educator Training to help child care programs enjoy the benefits of incorporating signing into daily interactions between children and teachers. For more information regarding these workshops, please contact us.

Parent Workshop: $55.00

Sign, Say & Play™: $99.00

More Sign, Say & Play™: $99.00

Pricing per couple.
Pricing can vary due to location.