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Summary: Amazing results in a small amount of time!
Review: After just one day of signing EAT and MILK to my 14 month old, she signed back! I will sign with our new babies much earlier as the book suggests. Every parent should take the time to do this!
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Summary: Didn't Meet Expectations
Review: After reading the other reviews, my spouse and I were very excited about buying this book and teaching our daughter to sign. However, we were disappointed with the limited content of the book, and feel that a simple ASL dictionary or a class in ASL would be more helpful. I have found it difficult to implement ASL into my daily life w/my daughter as my hands are often full, both literally and figuratively. In addition, we are blessed to have a daughter who is very expressive and responsive and have found it fairly easy to communicate w/her and to anticipate her needs. Watching her efforts to communicate in her own ididsyncratic ways has been more enjoyable than trying to incorporate the sign language into our daily lives. Perhaps we will give it another try when she is a toddler.
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Summary: Sign With Your Baby
Review: Amazing results. My wife and I started to sign to our daughter at 3 months, Milk, Dog, Mom, Dad, Bright Light, and sleep. At 6 months old she was asking to be nursed without crying, at 8 months old she was communicting with us for food, drink, play, naps, diaper change, dog etc.. At one year she was using over 50 signs. Now that she is two, she speaks like a 6 year old, complete sentences, coherent conversations about a single topic, and is beginning to work out written words.Stick with the signing in the book for 3-4 months and watch your child's vocabulary explode before she's one. We also believe we avoided a very frustrating time for both us and our daughter by being able to communicate with her so early and telling us her needs and wants. Invest the $15, and stick with the program, it will amaze you and your family.
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Summary: Excellent resource
Review: Before my son was born I began to look at different baby sign books. I picked up two books, Sign with your Baby and another. I found Sign with your Baby very easy to use. I returned the other baby sign book and bought a second copy of Mr. Garcia's book (and the video) for my mother/Tyler's caregiver. Joseph Garcia gives excellent reasoning backed up with research for you should sign with your baby, and when you should start, what signs are best to begin with, when and how to introduce new signs, and so much more without inundating you with too much information. I buy this book for everyone I know who has a baby.
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Summary: Love this book!!!
Review: Before my son was born I began to look at different baby sign books. I picked up two books, Sign with your Baby and another. I found Sign with your Baby very easy to use. I returned the other baby sign book and bought a second copy of Mr. Garcia's book (and the video) for my mother/Tyler's caregiver. Joseph Garcia gives excellent reasoning backed up with research for you should sign with your baby, and when you should start, what signs are best to begin with, when and how to introduce new signs, and so much more without inundating you with too much information. I buy this book for everyone I know who has a baby.
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Summary: What an amazing idea
Review: By using the book only, a close friend has taught her year-old baby a few basic signs. It's so amazing to see her communicating so clearly at her age. Knowing for sure that she's hungry, finished, tired, etc. is just wonderful. I recommend this book highly for any parent, and will be getting it for all of my friends who have babies.
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Summary: The Best Thing I have Done As a Parent So Far
Review: Garcia's book was a tremendous tool in teaching my husband and me how to teach our 12-month daughter to sign. I appreciated not only the dictionary of signs, but also the information on finding the propitious moment in which to teach new signs. It took about 6 weeks before our little girl caught on, but she took off from there. She is now 19 months old and has replaced all of her signs with spoken words, although she still signs "more" when her mouth is full! The information in this book encourages rewarding interation with your child!
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Summary: Excellent resource
Review: I began teaching my son to sign at age 7 months. He learned very quickly and was communicating extensively in a couple of months. (For example, around 9 months old, he awoke in the middle of the night, which was unusual for him, and signed that he wanted to eat rice cereal and apples.) Signing lowered his frustration levels significantly. Plus it is so much fun for the whole family to communicate with him. His speech also developed very quickly, and at 19 months he is using sentences. I highly recommend this book. It is written in an easy to read and understand format.
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Summary: Amazing results - far fewer frustrations
Review: I bought this book for my 2nd child and thought that if any of it worked, he would be less frustrated than my 1st son was. What a difference! I think if you go into it with realistic expectations and a positive, fun attitude you and your child will open up a new dimension of communication from a very young age. My second child started to sign basic signs (more, food, milk, cat, etc.) at about 10 months after a few months of signing to him. This is just a basic book to get the basic ideas across - it is not the complete lesson in ASL. It seems that some other people reviewing this expected a magic pill or something to make everything perfect. This book will not do that but will let the little ones express themselves specifically and limit the amount of guessing on our part. They have a voice and get satisfied sooner letting go some of their frustrations. My 3rd child picked it up a little later than my 2nd but it has made such a huge difference. It should not be a chore but should be fun to do seeing them learning and growing. Kids will pick this up at their own pace so don't give up but don't be so serious! Remember, this is supposed to be fun for all of you, not work or a drag. Relax, sit back, sign and enjoy you children!
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Summary: Worked great with first child. Now using with second child.
Review: I brought this when my first child was 1 year old. We used the video a lot, but the book and other materials in the set were not used that much. The video is great, because it helps to give direction of what signs to teach first. Also, since it has babies and parents in the video, my son just liked to watch the video. This helped me to learn the signs faster.
The only problem that we had with the whole system was my ability to learn the signs, so I could teach them to my child. I was able to teach all of the signs presented in the video, but I did not advance beyond that. Even though our family signing vocabulary was only about 20 words, since they were the 20 most important words in my child's life, the video was still very beneficial to our family.
Definitely buy the video. As for the book, as other people suggested, look into other ASL sources.
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