Baby Signing for Dummies For Dummies (Pocket Edition) - Softcover

Jennifer Watson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470224037 ISBN 13: 9780470224038

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2008

Synopsis

This book features top signs that your baby or toddler should know. Communicate with signing and strengthen your bond. Want to sign with your baby? This guide shows you how to use sign-language gestures to communicate with hearing infants and toddlers. Using baby-specific signing techniques, you'll see how to lessen frustration and crying, as well as teach signs that your baby can use every day. Jennifer Watson teaches parent-child baby signing classes and heads the Houston Signing Babies Support Group. Discover how to: introduce signs to your baby; get the whole family involved; and, incorporate signing in your daily life.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Packed with more than 150 illustrated signs

Now you're talking! Communicate with signing and strengthen your bond

Want to sign with your baby? This easy-to-use guide shows you how to use sign-language gestures to communicate with hearing infants and toddlers. Using baby-specific signing techniques, you'll see how to lessen frustration and crying, as well as teach signs for every part of baby's day. You may even improve baby's IQ!

Discover how to

• Introduce signs to your baby
• Get the whole family involved
• Make bedtime easier with signs
• Keep baby safe with signing
• Overcome stumbling blocks

About the Author

Jennifer Hill Watson is the mom to three signing children. She began signing with her first daughter when her daughter was about 6 months old. At 41⁄2 years, her oldest now has over 300 signs. Jennifer’s second daughter is nearing 300 signs at age 31⁄2. Her son has 116 signs and 154 words at 19 months.
A former teacher, Jennifer has taught in both private schools and Houston public schools. She teaches signing classes for babies and their parents in the Houston area and helps lead the Houston Signing Babies support group both on the Web and at regular meetings.
Jennifer also speaks at national conferences to teachers on using American Sign Language in the classroom. Jennifer works with McGraw-Hill/Wright Group’s Early Childhood Division as an Early Childhood Consultant and teacher trainer. She volunteers as director of a preschool choir and leads confirmation classes with sixth graders in her church.
She has a bachelor of science from Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas. Jennifer and her family currently live in Katy, Texas.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470224037
• ISBN 13: 9780470224038
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64