Ryan,+Diane

Ryan, Diane

Ryan, Diane. "Back to Parenting Main." //Parenting and Pregnancy Articles & Resources at TheParentSite!// Web. 13 Sept. 2010. [].
 * " Infants are born with an instinctive need to communicate." pg. 1
 * " But learning to talk takes time – plus it requires the type of motor skills that babies only begin to master around their first birthday." pg. 1
 * " Studies have shown that while babies may lack the motor skills, they do have the ability to understand and use language well before they can speak." pg. 1
 * " Until recent years, sign language was used as a method of communicating only with the hearing impaired." pg. 1
 * " Research now shows us that signing is also an effective way to communicate with hearing babies." pg. 1
 * " And even more remarkably, signing enables babies to “talk” back." pg. 1
 * " Research has shown that babies who sign are less frustrated since they have a way of expressing their wants and needs." pg. 1
 * " But even more amazingly, babies who are taught a few simple signs not only speak earlier than non-signers but have larger vocabularies and become better readers." pg. 1
 * " It has to do with stimulating more synapses of the brain." pg. 1
 * " Signing babies have IQ’s that are 10-12 points higher." pg. 1
 * " Teaching a hearing baby to sign is a simple and natural process.
 * " A parent only needs to use five or six signs for a baby to benefit from the signing experience." pg. 1
 * "The more you sign, the faster the baby will catch on and make the signs himself – provided that he is ready to sign." pg. 1
 * " While it won’t do any harm if you start to sign when your baby is too young, the danger is that you will become bored if you don’t see any results." pg. 1
 * " There are some things you can look for to determine if your baby has enough long term memory and the motor skills to reproduce the sign." pg. 1