Learn To Understand Baby Signs
You may think of trying to baby sign during short little conversations with your child, using signs for “sleep,” “hungry,” “food” and “toys.” Yet there are several different avenues that can be used for teaching baby signing. Besides actual toys to help facilitate learning, there are flash cards, DVDs and picture books as well. But you can’t ignore that music is another important aspect that is used in so many ways to help babies learn.
Much of the structure of the programs that help to teach sign language for babies is based on the social and medical understanding of early childhood development. So it’s not a surprise that the creators of these programs have included music, since it plays such a large role in baby learning in general. Even the Baby Einstein program, which started out trying to increase babies’ intellectual capacity with classical music and poetry, has entered the baby sign language realm. It offers a video called “My first Signs – See & Sign With Baby,” which teaches simple signs accompanied by speech and of course classical music.
Baby Signs, Inc. is more heavily and directly involved in baby sign work, and this company’s products include music, as well as books, toys and instructional videos. They have several different music bundles, including a Music CD called “If You’re Happy and You Know it.” Meanwhile, at the www.signbabies.com website you also find that in their “Signing Time” instructional packages, not only are there DVDs that teach the signs themselves, but each one has an accompanying music CD. You can also sometimes find local play groups that use music to teach signs as the children interact with each other.
Music has long been recognized as an avenue to help make learning easier, along with all its other functions. Learning to baby sign is no exception to this, as music provides an aural as well as a visual avenue through which the signing information enters the baby’s mind, helping the child to retain that information better. As you and your baby learn to sign, music may also be a stress reliever, because after all, melody is known to slow the heart rate and steady the breath. And music can help make the process just plain fun, as baby learns this wonderful new way of communicating.
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