ABCMeSign - Sign Language Classes for hearing infants and young children
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Signing With Your
Baby classes - Parents Magazine's pick as one of the best classes for
your child.
ABC me Sign ™ classes recommended by OC Kids.
The benefits of teaching sign language to a preverbal baby
Creates a new awareness of a preverbal baby's potential
Strengthens the parent-infant bond
Reduces frustration for babies and caregivers
Stimulates intellectual development
Enhances infant self-esteem
Accelerates verbal language development
Provides a window into baby's world
The
benefits of teaching sign language to a verbal child
When sign language is incorporated into other learning activities, children are
learning visually, verbally, and kinesthetically, all at the
same time—simultaneously engaging children of different
learning styles and creating greater memory retention.
Dr. Marilyn Daniels
is the author of the critically acclaimed Dancing with Words: Signing for Hearing Children's Literacy (Bergin
& Garvey 2001). She has found, based on over ten years
of research with hearing children in the US and the UK, that
the benefits for hearing children using sign language are:
Improved English vocabulary
Improved reading ability
Improved spelling proficiency
Enhanced self-esteem and self-confidence
Increased comfort with expressing emotion
Increased receptive and expressive language skills
Improved eye/hand coordination and general motor function
Increased IQ scores
Mother-proven benefits of having a signing child
Children can cry and sign simultaneously
You can eat and sign
Parents can correct a child from across the room
Children can communicate with parent from a distance without yelling
Children can be reminded to use manners from a distance
Children learn to read body language
You can talk in a movie, theatre or church
You can talk under water
You can complain when your parent is flossing your teeth too hard
What teachers are saying about signing in the classroom
