My First Signs: BSL (British Sign Language)

This book will be great for adults of any experience level - from novice to pro - regarding teaching baby signs. The illustrations are darling, and the accompanying instructions clear (AND there's a "glossary" of movements on the back cover). There are also helpful tips printed across the bottom of each page. The vocabulary is perfect for babies. The only drawback I can imagine is that the book itself is pretty big for a board book and will require an adult to help hold it.

Very useful not only pe teach sign language. Learning the gestures children can be understood by parents before speaking. Moreover, the book is also useful for teaching English to foreign children

Basic starter for young children to learn BSL

If you seriously want to learn some signs and teach your baby/toddler/child, this is an excellent starting off point, a late talking toddler or an older child who catches on quickly will want more signs right away! This is a conveniently durable reference the whole family can enjoy, although it is quite large, so it isn’t a convenient travel size. Let’s be very honest here, this is a book to teach signs to adults and older children so that THEY can teach the baby the signs, because the baby is not going to independently look at the pictures, read the description and learn to sign, it takes just as much interaction as teaching a child to speak (I hope nobody hopes their child will learn to speak by leaving any book with written text around them!) but it is nice having the illustrations and board book format so that the books is enjoyable to use with baby or toddler near by. I think looking up video recordings of the signs is pretty much a must for some of them, but this books is excellent reinforcement and has a good number of signs. I don’t this it matters that there are eight signs per spread since like I said an infant isn’t going to learn signs from a book. By the time a child is about a year old they’ll probably be able to learn identify some of the pictures by pointing either by hearing spoken word (for children with hearing) and/or seeing gestures if they have been used regularly with the child. Now that my child is 2 years old, and something of a late talker, we started signing consistently around 17 months due to good comprehension but being essentially mute verbally, good at getting her point across in most situations, but clearly (severely) frustrated by her inability to express her understanding and comprehension. At this point she has learnt around 150 signs? (From many sources) They might not all be useful but I believe she is happier being able to remark on things, [berry, help, more, bowl, please] I can understand to be “help put more berries in my bowl please”. For reference she can verbally say mama, dada, baba/baby, bee, knee, and few other novelty words and sounds that are more like party tricks than effective communication. I supplemented with the other books from this publisher, particularly slightly smaller format Mealtime, Getting Ready, Going Out, and Play Time which have more specific signs (individual foods, items of clothing, weather, and things like “taking turns” and “sharing” which my girl picked up on surprisingly quickly.) We also have the book about first animal signs, which is a pretty big format like this one, and they are more recreational and fun signs for us, not something practical for communicating needs. There are also smaller song books, which are of a lot less value, but as a child with hearing my toddler does enjoy. Among the first signs she produced from this book were: more, milk, eat/food, cold, cookie/biscuit, hot, hurt, baby/doll, book, help, bird, please Other signs from different sources she liked having early on were: shoes, boots, berries, cheese, cracker, orange, moon, star, fork, spoon, bowl, potty, and so on.

on trouve dans ce livre les mots les plus utilisés par les bébés tels que manger, boire, merci, s il vous plait, je t aime, un calin, se laver.....une petite cinquantaine de signes utilisables a condition d etre bilingue ou de trouver un traducteur qui saura vous remettre cela dans la langue francaise puisque ce livre n existe pas a ma connaissance en fancais. Un conseil pour mieux se servir de la methode est present au bas de chaque page, mais ilfaut savoir que ce livre est basé sur le langage des signes anglais, et que les signes ne sont pas toujours les memes qu en francais. L'enfant passe pas un temps (qui peut paraitre long) de comprehension des signes avant de signer lui meme, il faut donc vraiment entrer dans une demarche d apprentissage et apprendre les signes pour les faire partager plus spontanement a bébé.