4 week session gives you the basics of signing with your baby! Learn over 30 words and the best techniques to use with your child. Understand resources available for you to continue learning long after class ends! Tuition includes 45 min weekly class for you and baby, discounted access to at home resources and take home practice sheets. $50
This six-week class is designed to build off our introductory class, however, completion of intro class is not required for registration. Weekly themes include daily routines, transportation, colors, manners, outdoor signs, friends and feelings and more! Each week features unique signing tips to build success at home, discussions of the benefits of signing with babies and toddlers and information about Deaf culture.
This six-week class is designed to build off our intermediate class (Everyday Signs). However, completion of previous class is not required for registration. Weekly themes include nursery rhymes, alphabet exploration, numbers and counting, days of the week, months of the year and seasonal signs. Each week features unique signing tips to build success at home, discussions of the benefits of signing with verbal toddlers and preschoolers and information about Deaf culture.
See class details here and a blog post about classes here and research about the effectiveness of Baby Sign Language here
Come on in with your child and get ready for a high energy 45 minute ride. Every class begins with an introduction song to get to know each other. (Don’t worry, you don’t have to be able to sing!) The previous week’s words are then reviewed using an age appropriate and engaging activity with manipulatives. Next, we share out our successes and struggles with using sign language at home and get help and support from our peers. The new signs for the week are then introduced. Games and activities, songs and finger play, are used to reinforced the new signs. Next, some high energy movement time! A dance party for walkers or a lap bounce for babies in arms. We then review our ABC’s and 123’s and bring it back down with a quiet song or bubbles!. After that is story time, our last chance to reinforce the new signs for the week. Finally, we close with a goodbye song until we meet again!
Baby Sign Language lets babies communicate their needs rather than crying. Children are able to understand language as early as 6 months, but the ability to speak requires complex fine motor skills that don’t develop until much later. The result is frustration and tantrums.
On the other hand, the motor skills required to use sign language develop much sooner than spoken language. Children who learn baby sign language can start using signs as early as 6 to 9 months! The result is a baby who can express her wants and needs.
For babies, sign language is a visual language. Many basic signs resemble what they mean. For example, to sign ball, you show the shape of a ball with your hands. Teaching your baby sign language can unlock the world around them and give their minds a head start.