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Series: Baby Sign Language Basics

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About this Series

  • Lessons: 6
  • Total Time: 3h 10m
  • Created At: 02/25/2009
  • Last Updated At: 11/03/2009

This series of six lessons should get you started signing with your baby. It'll walk you through how to get started, how to make a variety of different signs, how to practice with baby (using flashcards), and how to sign the alphabet.

Baby sign language signs covered in this series include foods, animals, family (mom/dad/etc), motivational (ball/block/etc - things your baby is fascinated by), and the alphabet. This set is sure to keep you and your little one busy learning! Happy signing!

Note: you are purchasing the right to download or access these video lessons online (through the links below). Unfortunately, we do not offer these lessons in a DVD format.

About this Author

Laura Berg
Laura Berg
18 lessons
Joined:
05/24/2007

Baby sign language expert, Laura Berg, teaches baby signing classes and trains other ASL baby sign language instructors through her Toronto-based company, My Smart Hands ( www.mysmarthands.com ). Laura has helped countless parents with their quest to better understand and communicate with their little ones through her baby sign language classes and video lessons.

Laura is certified with the Ontario College of Teachers and was recently awarded with the Ontario Mom Entrepreneur of the Year award. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at the University level on the topic of using sign language with hearing children. She has delivered workshops to librarians and teachers helping them...

Lessons included

Nopic_dkb
baby sign language flash cards - do it yourself...
11/17/2009
~ Naturalmama

Very nice. Simple start. Great for crafty people.

Nopic_gry
Very Helpful
07/11/2009
~ leanne

I found this very helpful. Im a nursery nurse and have recently started to sign language with the babies. it really does work.

Nopic_grn
LOVE flash cards
06/07/2009
~ jason14

I was "just looking around" when I came across this video and had to purchase the lesson right away! It just seemed so easy and I know anyone can do it. Great! It popped up when I googled "learn baby sign language"

Nopic_dkb
Flash cards
05/15/2009
~ loris

The video was easy to follow. Thank you. I have made other cards such as Bath, Sleep and Sister plus Please and Thank you.

Nopic_gry
I learned the complete alphabet by the end of t...
05/14/2009
~ lisa8

This is basic and simple and easy to learn...agian, a great bargain!

Nopic_tan
Learning to sign
05/14/2009
~ leanna

Thanks for sharing your skills and giving us the opportunity to learn sign language. I am just learning for my 19 month old son who is speech delayed and this video is very easy to understand. The simple everyday words we use arent as difficult as i thought and are pretty easy to remember. I am glad i can download this for me to refer back to and I will be downloading more in hopes that this helps my little man communicate with us. THANKS AGAIN. By the way your daughter is adorable! :)

Nopic_dkb
My baby signed the first day!!!
04/24/2009
~ jentanne

I taught my daughter the signs for milk, eat, more and mommy/daddy during her first meal after watching the video. She actually signed milk first. I could not believe it! I gave it to her and she did drink. I thought she was clapping her hands the whole time she was eating, then I realized she was trying to sign "more". She only signed milk and more, but I could not believe she was doing that after only showing her a few times!! Granted, she is 13 months old but this is so amazing. Thanks. Only thing I would like to see is some of the other common signs like please and thank you. I did see them briefly but not long enough to catch how to do them...

Nopic_gry
Great..;o)
03/24/2009
~ alexmom

Great..just have a question my son is 18 months and not saying a word yet, i speak spanish to him my husband speaks danish to him and we speak english between each other..the flash cards should be in spanish??..thks..;o)

Edit by MB Admin:
Answer courtesy of Laura: Great question, if you are going to be the one using the flashcards with your son then I would recommend using Spanish words or you can even leave the English words and add the Spanish words underneath. You can always make two versions one that is Spanish and one that is Danish. It would definitely be a good visual aid to link the two languages!

Below are the descriptions for each of the lessons included in the series: