Signing Safari DVD - All About Me!

Signing Safari's Beginner Signs & Alphabet DVD has the 15 most useful signs to begin your signing adventure: More, Hurt, Eat, Sleep, No, All Done, Milk, I Love You, Drink, Mommy, Book, Daddy, Help, Pacifier & Ball, plus the entire alphabet!

Benefits of sign language Signing with hearing babies, toddlers and preschoolers is gaining popularity because adults are recognizing that signing empowers children with early communication skills & helps to significantly reduce frustration, not only for the child, but also for their parents and care providers

SIGNING BABIES CAN COMMUNICATE BEFORE THEY CAN SPEAK *A baby develops their receptive abilities long before their motor abilities enable to actually form speech. Signing can bridge this considerable time gap between comprehension and speech production.

EARLIER SPEECH: Signing creates a more verbal environment because babies can initiate conversation about things that interest them, along with explaining their wants and needs.

LESS FRUSTRATION: Babies quickly learn that signing empowers them, and that it is much more productive than crying or whining. Instead of going through a process of elimination to figure out what your baby wants, they can simply sign it or respond to your signing.

LARGER VOCABULARIES: By age 2 the typical signer has approximately 150 or more words in his or her vocabulary.

ACCELERATED LITERACY SKILLS: Signing with your child makes reading an interactive experience.

ENHANCED INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT: Since you always speak as you sign, using sign language causes both hemispheres of a child's brain to work simultaneously, resulting in more connections taking place within the brain.

CLOSER BONDING: Signing with children requires eye-to-eye contact, body language, and facial expressiveness, all of which enable you to communicate sooner and more effectively.

LESS PARENTAL ANXIETY: When you're concerned your child is not feeling well signing provides your child the means to explain to you exactly where the pain is, or in what part of his body he doesn't feel well.

REDUCES THE TERRIBLE TWO's: The main cause for tantrums in toddlers is their inability to get you to understand them. When a toddler is at a loss for words, or spoken words haven't been acquired yet, signing clarifies the situation and alleviates the need for a child to resort to unpleasant physical behavior, or to cry and whine.

LESS STRESSFUL TOILET TRAINING: Children who can sign have a means of communicating their toileting needs even before they have the words to do so!