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The Benefits of Signing

Signing at Home

  • Signing allows your infant to clearly communicate specific thoughts.
  • Signing reduces frustration for your baby – and for you!
  • Signing gives you a window into your child’s mind and personality.
  • Signing won’t delay verbal language development – in fact, it may accelerate it. Research shows that babies who sign usually start to talk sooner and develop larger vocabularies than non-signing babies.
  • Signing reinforces verbal language by adding visual and kinesthetic emphasis to auditory input.
  • Signing children tend to be more interested in books.
  • Signing builds on babies’ natural tendency to use gestures.


Signing in Childcare Settings

  • Signing helps to lower noise levels in preschool classrooms by reducing frustrated creaming and crying.
  • Signing minimizes stress and frustration for caregivers who are responsible for meeting the needs of many children at once.
  • Signing reduces the “guesswork” in meeting each child’s maintenance needs resulting in more available time for positive, developmental interactions.
  • Caregivers report that signing significantly reduces problems with biting. Take away the frustration and biting goes with it.
  • The use of American Sign Language gives children with special needs the opportunity to interact in a meaningful way with typically developing children. General acceptance of children with special needs is greatly enhanced.

 

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