Baby Sign Language

"Teaching Babies to Sign Opens Worlds of Communication"

Baby sign language has become a popular phenomenon to parents around the world in recent years. Research has proven that teaching babies to sign increases their IQ and enables them to talk at an earlier age than those who don't. Sign language helps to tear down the barriers of silence and opens new worlds of communication between a parent and a child.
As a hearing-impaired mother at the vibrant age of 21, I worried about the frustrations of not being able to understand my child. I began to teach him sign language at an early age of eight months. The results were spectacular. There is nothing like a mother's feeling of having the ability to look into the window of a child's mind with a simple gesture or two.
Linda Acredolo, a professor of psychology at the University of California, began studying the phenomenon 15 years ago when she observed her one-year-old daught...