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we wanted to learn a new sign that wasn t on the show we d just use one of the many free online asl video dictionaries amazon product page affiliate link at some point later i heard that signing was good for communicating with infants because they learn to make gestures before they are capable of forming words many 12 month olds can wave hello point with one finger shake their head and clap their hands without anyone formally showing the how but the verbal vocabulary of a 12 month old is typically fairly limited theoretically babies and toddlers that sign throw fewer tantrums since tantrums are typically a result of frustration at not being able to express what they want also signing babies are typically able to talk sooner and with richer vocabularies since they have so much more practice at two way communication at a young age there are many other supposed benefits such as developing more self esteem and higher iqs but the main reason why my husband and i wanted to try it was pure curiosity could a baby do it was it actually helpful in daily life amazon product page affiliate link my review the advice is to start signing with your baby as soon as possible but not to expect them to sign back anytime before 6 months so my husband i started signing things like milk bath diaper change mom and dad right away with our first child when we started feeding him at 4 months we introduced eat more and all done to be honest i was pretty discouraged because while we of course believed our son to be brilliant just kidding at 9 months he still wasn t signing anything then one day at 9 and a half months when we were out for a walk there were dogs barking in the distance and i noticed him making a little motion with his fingers that kind of looked like snapping at first i was shocked and then i was pretty sure it was just coincidence but i figured either way i might as well go with it so i snapped my fingers too and said that s right you hear a doggie fortunately we have a dog so i got several opportunities to show him the sign for dog and within a week he was very reliably snapping his fingers for dog i d like to say that once he knew one sign his vocabulary grew instantly but it seemed like he still didn t quite get it however when he was interested in something he learned the sign or an approximation of it that we could recognize by the time he was 12 months old he could sign 7 words dog music dragon fire hat candle and milk for nursing it s interesting to note that only one of these words milk is one that my husband and i had been consistently demonstrating for him throughout his life the others were things that we showed him once or twice and he picked up right away it was as if he didn t find our choice of words particularly useful because he didn t really care when we were going to feed him give him a bath or change him it s like he knew we the parents had those things covered and would get around to them sooner or later what he wanted to know was how to introduce topics of conversation that he was interested in we figured out fairly quickly that he really wanted to talk about dragons fire and candles all the time i was pretty sure our son was going to be a pyromaniac but thankfully he s discovered other areas of interest since then after his first birthday our son s signing and speaking vocabulary grew each day by the time he was 15 months old our son could sign 63 words and say 24 words his signs were more clear to us than his words though both were approximations of the actual sign or word for example he would say oh no for orange but sign it pretty accurately one of his most useful signs was for hot which he signed very well it wasn t until after he could sign hot that we realized we d been burning our child in his opinion for his entire life and that he preferred his food cool and his bath water tepid the cutest signs he learned were for please and thank you which he learned were very effective in getting him what he wanted one of his funniest signing moments was after he sprained his arm and was wearing a cast one day he started shaking his fist at me with his good arm without any associated anger it took me about 5 instances before i figured out he was trying to sign car like driving with your hands on the steering wheel but could only use one hand every time a loud car would pass by outside he would shake his good fist at me i would say our son increased his signing knowledge up until about 18 to 20 months at which point words took over now at two and a half he can speak very well the doctor tells us that at 3 years old lots of kids sound like elmo and still say things like me do it not in our house our son says i will do it and i want you to go stand over there by the brown table so you re not in my way another interesting point is that while my son only ever used about half the signs we showed him i discovered many months later that he actually knew the meaning of all of them one day after he could talk pretty well i started asking if he knew what the signs for farm animals meant despite the fact that i hadn t showed him these signs in months he knew them all what this means to me is that even the signs he never signed back or at least not in a way i understood were still useful for communication if nothing else they reinforced for him what i was talking about overall i m extremely glad we started signing with our son while i don t think it ever helped in any life or death situations and he hardly ever used it for mundane reasons like telling us he was ready for a diaper change i think it definitely enriched his babyhood by letting him talk to us about whatever he wanted now at 2 and a half he sometimes has mini meltdowns because he doesn t get his way even though he s perfectly capable of communicating what it is he wants however between 1 and 2 he hardly ever threw what could be called a tantrum maybe he s just an easy going mellow kid i think that s part of it however i m also fairly certain signing made his life easier fuller and more fun for all of us update nov 2013 our son is now almost 4 years old and as expected speaks extremely well everything he says is fully intelligible though not always audible around strangers his grammar is so good that every once in a while when he says something improperly it sticks out as being extra adorable such as none people wanted to go on the slide today also we now have an 18 month old daughter who we also signed with as an infant she never signed as much as her brother but now speaks better than our son did at the same age because i m a certified nerd full month to month documentation of her signing and speech progress is here click here for more articles on life with a baby related links parenting books on baby sign language best books for babies and toddlers best baby carriers pin 57 share tweet 57 shares reader interactions leave a reply cancel reply your email address will not be published required fields are 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