Baby Talk: How to boost your child’s language skills (a programme for 9 to...
Here is something I have been meaning to share for ages. A few months back, now, I read a book called Baby Talk by Dr. Sally Ward. In it she describes a programme she has developed through her clinical...
View ArticleWhat’s the baby sign for ‘this is awesome’?
Cover of Baby Signs We had our first baby signing class the other day. It was very sweet. I had read the Baby Signs book a couple of months back and got totally sold on the idea of signing to my baby....
View ArticleBaby Sign Language: breakthroughs and bloopers
Image via Wikipedia Anya has over 100 signs. She amazes me. On top of that she has ‘words’ (mostly sound effects) for another 20 or so things – most of those are for animals, food and things that go...
View ArticleThe other dada (or: when, oh, when will she call me Mama?)
On the other hand, at 14 months, Anya still doesn’t call me Mama! For the last six months, I have been dada (along with the other dada). She knows the difference, she’ll point at the right one of us in...
View ArticleHow I became the crazy Baby-Signs-woman (and how you could, too!)
When I was pregnant I heard about this quirky little thing called Baby Sign Language. Apparently – I was told – babies can learn how to use sign language before they can speak. Baby Sign Language is...
View ArticleTwenty easy-peasy tips for supporting language development
Happy Children Playing Kids (Photo credit: epSos.de) When Nica was only a baby, I was nervous about not knowing how to talk to her to help her develop language. Does that sound odd? I don’t know where...
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