Bringing up your child is a very rewarding and important job. But it can be stressful at times, both for the baby and for the parents. However, simple signs taken from British Sign Language can help your baby communicate with you long before they are able to utter their first word. It’s easy, it’s fun to learn, and it helps your baby not just to develop the tools to let you know what he wants, but to build the solid foundations for a confident and happy child.  

Baby sign language builds on a baby’s natural tendency to gesture. And signs are just as easy for a baby to learn as waving, clapping and pointing. Every parent is keen to teach their baby to wave 'bye bye' when they are around 7-8 months old. Waving 'bye bye' can be appropriately used by the baby at that age - so why not add a few more easy gestures to your baby's vocabulary?

Signing babies can clearly communicate their thoughts and desires. This helps reduce frustration, foster trust and deepen the connection between babies and their parents.

By using signs in tandem with their spoken language, you can start the process of two-way communication with your baby from as early as six months and enhance the verbal language development of your baby in the process. 

Signing Babies  offers workshops and classes based on Dr Joseph Garcia's original and award-winning Baby Signing programme "Sign With Your Baby".

Baby signing helps hearing babies to communicate but the classes are also suitable for deaf children and/or deaf parents as well as children with speech delay and additional needs.

  

Areas covered are Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire.