Knack Baby Sign Language: A Step-By-Step Guide To Communicating With Your Little One (Knack: Make It Easy) - Softcover

Chafin, Suzie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1599216140 ISBN 13: 9781599216140

Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

Few children can communicate effectively before eighteen months of age, but sign language can allow baby and parent to reduce the frustration up to a year earlier. With more than 450 full-color photos, text, and sidebars, Knack Baby Sign Language provides a user-friendly, efficient method to learn and teach a baby sign language. Organized by age, it provides signs appropriate to use with babies, with toddlers, and with older children for whom signing with games, songs, and rhymes is enriching. The signs can also be used with special needs children and those with delayed communication abilities.

About this title

About the Author

Suzie Chafin was born hearing to two profoundly deaf parents, Margie and John Coggins-Peckham who met at Galludet University, a hearing impaired college for the deaf in Washington, D.C. Truly bi-lingual and bi-cultural, Suzie understands the Deaf community and culture as one who actively lived and breathed this world.  Translating from an early age, American Sign Language was Suzie’s first language giving her a breadth of understanding of this complex language and community. 

Photographer John Grindstaff is former chair of the art department at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC and currently a professor of photography at this renowned university for the deaf. He regularly exhibits his woork at galleries in Washington, DC. As a student he completed an internship with renowned portrait photographer Annie Liebovitz.

From the Back Cover

Imagine being able to understand, talk, and communicate easily with your six-month-old. Imagine not having to guess at what your baby wants when she grunts and points and finally bursts out in tears. Can it really be done? Unequivocally yes. Learning, and using, sign language allows babies to communicate needs before they're able to verbally express them, reducing fussiness and paving the way for language acquisition skills. Knack Baby Sign Language makes it easy with user-friendly, photo-rich, step-by-step instructions for age-appropriate signs to use with babies, with toddlers, and even with older children. The signs can also be used with special needs children and those with delayed communication abilities.

Over 450 full-color photos
Signs for Everyday Life
Mealtime * Washing * Bedtime
Exploring the World
Colors * Numbers * Animals
Feelings & Emotions
Signs for All Ages

Edition details

• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1599216140
• ISBN 13: 9781599216140
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256