Signs of a Happy Baby: The Baby Sign Language Book

What does your baby want to say? You can find out – even before your baby can verbally speak – by using baby sign language. Signs of a Happy Baby gives you everything you need to start signing with your baby, including a comprehensive dictionary with easy-to-follow photos of fun and practical American Sign Language (ASL) signs, and tips for integrating sign language into your everyday activities.

Signing with your baby will help you to:
• Discover why your baby is crying – whether it’s because something hurts, she’s hungry, or her diaper needs changing.
• Reduce frustration for everyone. Without spoken words, your preverbal baby can only tell you what he wants by pointing, crying, or using unintelligible grunts and noises. Signing gives pre-verbal babies a way to communicate and can later ease the tantrums of the “terrible twos.”
• Find out what your baby wants to eat and when she’s all done, thus easing mealtime battles.
• Know what interests your child by engaging in signing conversations – and build a stronger bond with your baby in the process.
• Integrate sign language into songs, games, and stories to jumpstart your child’s verbal communication development and to facilitate cognitive benefits.
• Get armed with information and evidence-based research so you can deal with the skeptics.
• Be inspired by real-life stories from parents who share how signing increased their children's verbal language skills, built a bridge in bilingual families, and created communication pathways in special needs circumstances.

Start signing with your baby now. What your baby has to say will blow you away!