Baby signing

Tiny Talk presentation - introduction to baby signing

Attachment Parenting UK Derby Group

Thursday, 27 March 2014 from 10:30 to 11:30 (GMT)

Chellaston, United Kingdom

Communication and behaviour are very closely linked. TinyTalk Baby Signing Classes and Nursery Training Programme can help in both these areas: significantly increasing communication levels and subsequently helping to reduce behavioural problem levels.

BABIES CAN LEARN TO COMMUNICATE BEFORE THEY CAN SPEAK

Baby signing (or ‘symbolic gesturing’ as it is known academically) is pre-verbal communication (language before speech). Babies understand so much before they can talk! Any good parent or carer can see that their young child is like a sponge, learning all the time. The cogs are whirring, the eyes are sparkling and showing recognition but the muscles required to speak intelligibly (mouth, tongue and vocal cords and the coordination of them) do not develop until 12 to 18 months. However fine motor skills (using the hands in intricate ways) develop from 7 to 9 months. Vocabulary is beginning to be understood (that objects have names and that their names can represent the objects).

Baby sign language can then begin. “Motor development occurs earlier than that of controlling the vocal system which is an advantage for signers” (Sperling et al., 1978). “Babies understand much more than they are able to say. Speaking is difficult. It requires the development of dozens of muscles in the face, mouth, and tongue, and coordination of these muscles with the flow of the breath over the vocal folds in the larynx. From a purely developmental point of view, babies achieve the ability to construct language with their hands at least six to twelve months earlier than they do with their vocal apparatus” (Daniels, 20 1).

(see more: http://www.tinytalk.co.uk/baby-signing-research.php )

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