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Title: Sign With Your Baby Complete Learning Kit (ASL-based Book, Training Video & Quick Reference Guide combination) by Joseph Garcia ISBN: 0-9668367-0-7 Publisher: Northlight Communications Pub. Date: July, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.65 (77 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must Have!
Comment: This kit changed our lives. Two days after we received the kit we were starting to sign to our 10 month old daughter. She started signing within one month and is now signing over 60 words (at 18 months old). The video is great, it shows other parents actually showing their children the signs, and it shows very young children actually signing. It is a real motivator for parents to stick with it.The book is a great reference and the pictures of the signs are very easy to understand. The reference chart was fantastic for our daycare provider. When she dosen't recognize a new sign she can look at the chart, and figure out what our daughter is telling her. Also we have included the chart in our daughters baby book.
I highly recommend this kit and I think every parent should teach their baby to sign! The results are fantastic! Kudos to the authors!
Rating: 5
Summary: My Two-Year Old is Reading!
Comment: We started teaching our 2-year old daughter baby sign language when she was 10 months old. We are convinced that this simple book and video have helped open the door to her ability to not only communicate with signs (within one month of when we started), but also prevented her from becoming frustrated. It also connected the proper brain circuitry to give her the ability to learn her alphabet (upper and lower case) at an early age... and now read and write. She recognizes many written words, including her name, "baby", "cat", "dog", etc. She is also writing her name and a few other words. This book is a "must have" for hearing parents with hearing children.
Rating: 4
Summary: A thorough introduction for parents.
Comment: Teaches PARENTS how to START signing with their hearing children, ages 6 months to 2 or 3 years. Based on American Sign Language. For children who already know a few signs or who already possess a healthy speaking vocabulary, allow me to suggest "Baby See n Sign" and "Signing Time" instead (click on "see more about me" above for my reviews on these two products). When my son was 11 months old, I received Joseph Garcia's "Sign with your Baby" complete learning kit as a gift; it included a video, book, and laminated quick reference guide. We even ordered an additional quick reference guide for Grandma and Grandpa. After viewing the video a couple of times and reading the book, my husband and I felt informed on the research that supported signing with hearing children; we felt equipped to correctly model the first three signs that we were to introduce (eat, milk, and more); and we knew, in general, how long it would take for our son to reciprocate those first signs. After what seemed like two long months of repetitive signing on Mom and Dad's part, our son began to crudely reproduce the signs on his own. It was so cool to watch!! Again, I turned to Joseph Garcia's "Sign with your Baby" video to choose the next signs I'd introduce (we chose bath, banana, apple, telephone, and juice). It was at this time that I became disappointed with what the product offered. The alphabetical "Sign with your Baby" vocabulary on the video was tedious to fast forward and rewind through, and I felt the vocabulary would've been better presented in categories such as food, animals, everyday verbs, opposites (i.e. big/small, hot/cold), etc.; the alphabetical listing was virtually useless to me and entirely useless to my son because there were no pictures to go along with the signs. And so I went in search of additional resources. After reading EVERY SINGLE review I could find on signing video products at amazon.com, I decided on "Baby See n Sign" Volume 1 and "Signing Time" Volume 1; I have not been disappointed. These two products are designed to be viewed by parents AND children. To date, my 17-month-old son recognizes about 80 signs and produces about 40 signs with varying accuracy. To recap, Joseph Garcia's "Sign with your Baby" complete learning kit is great for getting parents STARTED with signing, but it falls short of being a useful resource to those who've already started signing or whose children already possess some verbal skills; in this case just check out Garcia's book from the library to learn about the research and methods he addresses in the video. Then invest your money elsewhere, like in "Baby See n Sign" and "Signing Time" videos. ONE FINAL THOUGHT: In one amazon.com review of Joseph Garcia's "Sign with your Baby," the video is criticized as "something of an infomercial...I expected more actual instruction and demonstration...There should have been more showing and less telling." While I agree to a certain extent with this reviewer, I strongly believe PARENTS should be educated in the research and methods associated with TEACHING a second language. I taught English as second language for many years in Japan; keeping up-to-date on the latest research and employing age-appropriate methods were essential in helping my students master a second language. Of all the signing products I've seen for hearing children, Joseph Garcia presents this aspect best. Good luck to anyone embarking on this adventure; it's a lot of FUN!!!
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Title: Baby Minds : Brain-Building Games Your Baby Will Love by LINDA PHD ACREDOLO, SUSAN PHD GOODWYN ISBN: 0553380303 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 05 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Pick Me Up! Fun Songs for Learning Signs by Sign2Me ISBN: 0966836782 Publisher: Northlight Communications Pub. Date: 11 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
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Title: Baby Signs: How to Talk with Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk, New Edition by Linda Acredolo, Susan Goodwyn, Douglas Abrams ISBN: 0071387765 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 24 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night by Elizabeth Pantley, William Sears ISBN: 0071381392 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 28 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: What's Going on in There? : How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life by LISE ELIOT ISBN: 0553378252 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 03 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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