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Summary: Very help book
Review: My sons are 20 and 2 months old. We started signing to the oldest when he was 9 months, and he now signs over 60 words and signs to his brother. Signing helps us out because we don't always understand what he is saying verbally. In public, we can also tell him to 'sit' and 'stop', and say 'no' without causing a scene. We love this book.
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Summary: Worth the Effort!
Review: Buy this program, commit yourself to it, and when you get tired and discouraged, do it anyway! The program says it may take several weeks to two months for your baby to produce a sign. We started at 7 months & our baby didn't produce a sign until she was 12 months. But the next signs came so much more quickly and people are amazed at how our baby can communicate. At 15 months she can not only ask to eat, but she can also specify that she wants toast, banana, cookies, etc.This program has been criticized for its lack of material. Its simplicity is an attribute. You don't have time to read detailed materials anyway. Spend an hour with this book, watch the video, and sign, sign, sign!
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Summary: Worth EVERY penny and MORE!!!
Review: I paid the full price of ... and I would pay it again. We have been reaping the rewards of this program and are so thankful for having heard about it. Our son is 8 1/2 months old and it only took him three weeks to show us his first sign. It was such an amazing feeling to be able to communicate with him. It does take a commitment by both parents (and the childcare provider if there is one) but it is well worth it. For those that are skeptical about the program: do the research and read how beneficial it is. You will not even blink an eye at the cost of the program.
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Summary: Great for bi lingual families!
Review: I am bilingual (Romanian, English), but my husband only speaks English, so I speak both with our daughter. As bilingual parents know, when they learn two languages at once, kids start talking as late as 3 1/2! This can make for a lot of frustration and temper tantrums when the child cannot make themselves understood. Our daughter is not speaking at 2 1/2 years. We used this system to communicate with her, cutting out some of her frustrations (and cutting out a lot of tantrums). She can make herself understood to us and she doesn't freak out becasue she is frustrated. We started when she was 9 months old, but it can be used at any age. We liked this method because it uses real American Sign Language (ASL) signs.
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Summary: This book is wonderful
Review: This is an excelent book/video book hearing children and deaf. I have a daughter that is severly speeched delayed and this book has helped us so much. She has learned to use signs and to show us her wants and needs also says words when signing. Some signs mybe hard for your child to do. You can make your own sign for your child. Its just a great resourse I am so glad that we got it.
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Summary: Very effective
Review: It just made perfect sense to my wife and I that a child's motor skills develop before their vocal chords are ready to speak. We have also always suspected that children are far more capable than we as jaded adults may give them credit. So we felt it was worth the small investment of time and money to see how this worked out and give our kid every opportunity to excel as much as she wished. Who were we to hold her back? Boy are we glad we made that decision. Our daughter began "speaking" in sign at 8 months with "milk" as her first sign. This was two months after we began showing her the sign each time we handed her a milk bottle. Sometimes we'd forget, but most of the time we'd remember. It got easier each time. We worked on around three signs at a time and once she saw that she could do "milk" she seemed to do the other signs we would teach her with greater ease each time. By around 18 months, we counted around 50 signs that she could do. This didn't seem to slow her verbal skills at all (as some contend). In fact, I would guess it sped them up if anything. She was speaking verbally at 10 months with "dada" and "doggie", words like that. Now she is a complete chatterbox (25 months). My personal opinion is that adults typically assume that because a child can't demonstrate otherwise, they "don't understand" what we are saying,. Ask a stroke survivor what it's like to think with complete clarity but not be able to physically speak the thought intelligibly. Is that so different from being a child who's vocal chords haven't developed? We have never made that assumption with our daughter. She's now 25 months and we have friends who think our kid is from another planet, she is so advanced in her verbal and motor skills. I attribute a lot of this to Joseph Garcia's book and the work we did with her, and our lack of assumption that it should be otherwise. Do your child a favor and give him/her environment he/she needs to develop the right skills. Even if he/she doesn't go as fast as another child, it doesn't invalidate the fact that a child needs that kind of environment since, for all you know, it might have taken even longer without this kind of constant mental stimulation. Best of luck! Hans
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Summary: Alot of work
Review: This book is great. It has some excellent points and research on the effectiveness and importance of sign language for babies; however, it does not tell you how much work and frustration go into the process. We tried for months with the basic signs(which were obviously more fun for us to learn than the baby), but it never quite caught on. I know it was more our fault than the author's but a little more education into the program/teaching itself instead of the signs would have been helpful.
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Summary: Can't wait to talk with my baby
Review: I have 3 friends who recommended this book. I have SEEN this in action and love it when a 9-month-old can say he needs to potty, eat, wants more, hurts, or loves.
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Summary: Come On, Guys, Lower Your Price
Review: I started in on this with Kayla at 8 months. She looked at me like I was nuts for about 6 weeks. And like most kids, she signed for more, food and milk at about 6 wks. after I first introduced signs to her. I really liked the pull-out chart, but the video left me pretty cold. Boring. The book is alright, but for the price, it should be tabbed with the most common signs you use, for quick reference. I, like a lot of other reviewers, agree it is overpriced. I would expect to pay [$] for a product like this. It is a shame to be taken advantage of, especially being a new parent and having lots of extras to purchase upon starting your family. Overall, this is a good product, but a lower price would have me giving this 4 stars instead of 3.
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Summary: Overpriced!
Review: This "complete" kit contains a very thin book, which has 50 pages of actual text and then another 30 or so pages of an American Sign Language picture dictionary. The quick reference card is a laminated version of those same drawings, and the 60-minute video contains 15 minutes of self-promoting advertisement and only 13 minutes of "how-to" sign language demonstration. I'm very upset about the price tag because the packaging is designed to look like much more material. When I cut open the thick plastic stickers sealing the box and saw the tiny materials inside, I was very upset because I knew that now I couldn't return it. To be fair, the subject matter is very simple and easy, so perhaps a huge book would be overkill
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