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Baby Fingers: I Want . . .: Teaching Your Baby to Sign

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We started signing with my daughter when she was 6mo and now at 14mo she's become very interested in signing and particularly in her signing board books. Unfortunately there don't seem to be many great board books for young babies. These series has great pictures of kids doing the sign, but no pictures of the object/expression being signed about. It just has the word printed over the kid's head. That's not useful for a pre-reading child.

The only good books for the younger set I've found so far are the credolo and Gentieu Baby Signs books, which have gorgeous photos of the sign being done by a child and picture of the object; unfortunately, some of the signs are made-up rather than actual ASL signs.

This board book series is spectacular. The babies and toddlers are so precious and my toddler loves the photos. He's picked up new signs on his own from these books, and is now able to add "I want" to many of his requests for things. Why teach your baby made up signs from the baby signs books when you can learn american sign language from the baby fingers books??!!

This is a WONDERFUL book and an excellent place to begin signing with your baby. Another wonderful book is "I'm Feeling..." also by Lora Heller. Lora is an expert in signing as well as children. I signed with my baby from about 9 months, and he picked it right up. He is now a very advanced talker at 2.5 years of age. He loved signing, and so did I - it gave us a way to communicate before he could talk. I knew what he wanted and what he was feeling/thinking so much more often with signs! I can't say enough good things about it and about Lora Heller. The book has very clear pictures and directions for how to make the signs. Your child will like the actual pictures of other youngsters.

This book, and the I Want book are great for find excellent photos of the signs you need to teach your baby how to ask for the things they need, or to tell you what they're feeling. I've seen it work; kids who learn sign language are much less frustrated and more verbal than their peers. It changes their whole personality for the better. They learn the meaning of language as a way to identify their needs. This book has cute pictures of children in which your baby will be interested, and that will help teach you the signs to use with your own child. The chunky board book format is great for throwing in a diaper bag. I really like these two books (I'm Feeling... and I Want...) a lot. I can't think of any improvements.

This book has about 20 concepts ilustrated with pics of cute babies but with poor explanations. We find some of the indications not clear, confusing or lacking information.
We do like the babie's pics but the idea was to get inormation not baby pics.
I would recommend much more to bet any of the "Monta Z Briant" books about baby signs, she even has some with DVDs with explanations that are great!

My Daughter at 2 years was very speach delayed. We started teaching her signs through speach therapy. She picks them up so fast. We bought the whole series of Baby Fingers books. Hannah learned a whole book in about a week. These words that she signed were the first that she said. She's 3 now and still loves reading the books. She still signs many of the words like sorry, hungry, please. There so cute.

I purchased the "Feelings" and "I Want" Baby Fingers sign books and my daughter absolutely LOVES them. We bought the books when she was 9 months (she is now 13 months) and she literally will drag them to me to flip through the pages with her, she'll 'read' them in the car, and she totes them around like they're her favorite toys.

The books basically consist of images of babies making a sign and what the sign means. My daughter has quickly learned several of the signs in the book and will often imitate them as we flip through the pages. As with any new skill, we have had to practice signing with her, but seeing the other babies making the signs on the pages have definitely helped to motivate her.

I definitely recommend these books as a special way to share time with your child and as a tool to help learn basic signs.

We've made good use of the baby signs books. They are much better than the baby fingers series. I was so disapointed when this book arrived that I would have returned it if it weren't that the shipping cost more than the book. The book offers basically the same information (vocabulary) as the baby signs books. However, the baby fingers book only shows a picture of the child performing the sign. There are no pictures to put the sign in context. Thus, all this book really does is teach the parents the sign and make it their job to apply the sign when possible. What a waste!