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ies leave the evidence unsupported 22 certainly research into the effects of baby signing needs better control groups such as children who are involved in equally interesting and fun activities based around adult and child language interaction but not baby signing this suggestion for further research implies that it may not be the baby signs themselves that facilitate language development but rather the underlying benefit being active joint attention that is stimulated by baby sign 20 23 therefore the enhanced joint visual attention during parent child interaction empowers the infant to focus the topic and context of the conversation clarify concepts and creates added practice with symbolic interaction 20 these underlying mechanisms of baby sign are proposed to create benefits for the infant such as enhancing vocabulary advancing cognitive development reducing tantrums and frustration and improving the parent child relationship and communication more specifically language development is improved by advancing comprehension promoting literacy and successfully allowing the infant to express their needs so the parent becomes more responsive and observant of their baby 20 24 why it may be neither beneficial nor harmful edit researchers have suggested the possibility of parents and experimenters being overly liberal in attributing sign or word status to early attempts at communication by children 25 puccini and liszkowski found that when infants associate labels with objects they use verbal cues more frequently than gestures to make these associations 26 the process of further facilitating gesturing with baby signs is suggested to possibly cause interference toward children s mapping of these words this may be a result of infants lacking enough attention to take in these two types of information and process it at the same time 26 it is suggested that these labels and further through the facilitation of baby sign that it is unlikely that baby sign is facilitating speech development in infants baby sign programs encourage parents to improve their communication skills between themselves and their infants before they have developed speech 7 kirk and colleagues have found that the results of their study with hearing infants provided no evidence to support that a child s language development would benefit from learning baby sign they also found that children who participated in baby sign had similar language development to children who did not learn baby sign it is suggested that participating in baby sign may be an unnecessary effort with infants when being motivated by the hopes of advanced language learning for the child however it was found that mothers who used baby sign with their infants encouraged increased independence with them and supported a higher level of independence for their child 7 another conducted research study has shown that there are no significant differences found with language acquisition between infants who are receiving or not receiving exposure to baby sign including reaching language milestones 16 although no support for using baby sign was found in this study there was also no negative effects found to be associated with language development when using baby sign with your child it is possible that baby sign is working in support of infant s spoken language but was not found to further their later language development 16 the results of multiple studies regarding baby sign have found that the advantages provided do not go beyond children over the age of two years old 22 the results of this literature review have not shown support that baby sign increases a child s linguistic development when teaching a child baby sign an infant s attention is directed away from what they are interested in and is redirected towards the adult and the desired sign this interaction has been claimed to increase joint attention between parent and child but has yet to be studied enough in research literature 22 it has also been proposed by researchers that baby sign may increase parental stress rather than decrease it because of busy lifestyles that may be disrupting interactions between parents and children teaching baby sign outside of research settings does not allow for the parent to raise questions or concerns to trained individuals 5 reaching fundamental linguistic milestones and the natural course of children s language development has been suggested to be disrupted because of the unnatural intervention in language development that baby sign provides supported by the lack of support in prior studies which have been analyzed 22 learning baby sign edit there are numerous concepts to keep in mind when encouraging baby sign caregivers should ensure that they have their infant s attention maintain consistency with what sign is used and how it is used in relation to an item repeat signs often encourage the infant and be alert to recognize when the infant is signing back when it comes to infants who have not yet acquired language abilities signs are an easy and readily accessible form of communication 11 27 prior to infants learning specific signs or developing language skills they acquire the spontaneous use of gesture 3 an infant s first gesture may appear between 9 12 months of age often classified as pointing gesturing gradually increases as infants connect pointing to word meaning making a gesture plus word combination that will evolve into a two word combination 3 it is thought that gestures may be easier for infants to remember than a name alone since a gesture is representative of what the child can picture happening when thinking about the item 11 to determine how infant communication is influenced by gesture and speech iverson and goldin meadow conducted a study 3 infants in the study used eye gaze body position and vocalization to attract and direct their target audience s attention while gesturing to items results looked to see if the gestures that children use are related to the word they say while doing the gesture iverson and goldin meadow found that infants gesture for items that they did not have the ability to express with words when words were produced by the child they typically were ones that the child had already been gesturing for this shows that gesture is directly linked to the words that children will produce 3 symbolic gesture is the specific term that encompasses baby sign this form of gesture aids in communication through the use of hand movements that represent an item or feeling 28 infants are quick to note if there is a connection between an item and a symbolic gesture once they make the connection infants will imitate actions that are produced by the caregiver consistency from the caregiver is crucial during the teaching and feedback stage in order for infants to learn from repetition 27 this repetition applies to how the caregiver uses the sign and in what way the sign is associated with the object or emotion if the association changes then the child will have a harder time understanding how the symbolic gesture links to the item one way for caregivers to ensure the infant associates the symbolic gesture with the object or emotion is to gain the infant s attention and say the name of the object at the same time that the sign is performed 11 27 28 infants watch their caregiver during everyday routines and situations this observation allows infants to learn symbols by borrowing the actions from the observed routine 28 a natural association occurs between signs and items allowing infants to explore and express new ideas prior to language development infants will learn to associate a word with the general motion that they carry out while using an object such as throwing a ball after this association children begin to make connections with the word and motion alone in this case a throwing gesture infants now can make the throwing gesture to alert caregivers that they wish to throw a ball thus increasing their non verbal communication representative abilities such as these are further used by infants to demonstrate emotional feelings as they associate a motion or sign with a feeling 28 further studies demonstrate that increasing the use of gesture not necessarily use of a sign language can increase the richness of a child s linguistic development 10 it is suggested that learning signs happens over a period of time inferring the importance of caregivers being patient with children as it takes more than a brief interaction between parent and child 29 parent child interactions are vital to the learning of baby sign since the infant looks to the caregiver for guidance by consciously demonstrating the sign to the infant the caregiver and infant are sustaining joint attention which increases communication when caregivers aid infants in creating the sign with their hands they are further increasing encouragement repetition and communication 11 it is the caregiver s job to not only teach specific hand signals beyond what infants naturally pick up but to provide support and feedback to infants when signs are produced correctly 28 through making a connection and parental encouragement of that connection infants can learn and actively engage in baby sign language 11 28 in 1998 a program was conducted at a sophie rogers infant toddler laboratory school in ohio state university by kimberlee whaley certain signs used in american sign language were taught to infants along with their teachers to establish whether these signs could be used to increase effective communication with the very young children from about the age of 9 months the children began to use the signs they had learned these included words like eat juice more now and sleep the program found that children would also use the signs they learned in the classroom to communicate with parents at home 30 based on this study learning baby sign appears to be a beneficial tool for children if implemented in schools and day cares media and internet influences edit due to promotional products easy access to baby sign tutorial videos and representations in popular culture parental attempts at signing with their baby may be more focused on the popularity social aspects instead of an intention to potentially enhance their child s communication skills 9 a study examined the degree to which information about baby sign found on the internet was based on research 8 results found thirty three websites that all promoted baby sign and the benefits associated over 90 of the information referred to opinion articles or promotional products encouraging parents to sign with little to no basis in research although websites claim that using baby sign will reduce tantrums increase infant s self esteem satisfaction feelings of accomplishment increase parent child bonding and decrease frustration the sites do not provide enough research based evidence to support these claims 8 another study examined internet information found using google scholar as well as a few academic databases researchers examined whether results claimed baby sign encouraged developmental social cognitive and language skills while achieving a greater bond between parent and child 2 the goal of asking this question was to find information that allows parents caregivers childhood educators and clinicians to make informed decisions about the amount of emphasis to place on baby sign when all the cited material was gathered there were 1747 articles with only 10 articles providing research regarding infant s developmental outcome in connection to baby sign 2 consensus gathered from these 10 articles states that baby sign as used by the commercially advertised product authored by acredolo and goodwyn does not benefit language production or parent child relationships however there is also no evidence from these articles that baby sign is in any way harmful to infants 2 through these two studies it is illustrated that websites may not contain 100 research based information individuals looking for information regarding the pros and cons of using baby sign should ensure they are accessing sites backed by research and not opinion commercial products available to parents participating in baby sign workshops or implementing it at home are found to be comparable to the quality of products used in research studies 22 it is suggested that parents be cautious of baby sign products as it is difficult to assess the credibility of commercialized products for facilitating baby sign 22 images edit young boy asking for food see also edit child development the connected baby documentary film language acquisition signing time manual babbling gestures in language acquisition baby talk oralism signalong references edit 1 2 baby sign language a guide for the science minded parent www parentingscience com retrieved 14 february 2016 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 fitzpatrick e m thibert j grandpierre v johnston j c 2014 how handy are baby signs a systematic review of the 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