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5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful book - excellent resource!, September 2, 2002
By A Customer
This review is from: Baby Signs for Mealtime (Board book)
I am a signing parent who uses American Sign Language. I found the Baby Signs for Mealtime book to a highly useful resource. The signs for EAT, DRINK, ALL GONE, ICE CREAM and BANANA are staight-up ASL signs. The signs for MORE, APPLE, HOT, and CEREAL are slightly modified. I am OK with these variations because they are easier for babies to use, given their limited coordination. I just want this to be fun and easy for my baby - I can teach him 'proper' ASL signs later! I was really glad to see that the authors included signs for BIB. I couldn't find these signs in any of my ASL dictionaries. My favorite feature of the book is the last page, which contains photos of the food items from each of the previous pages. I can say "where's the banana?" to my baby and he can point to it on the page. Then we make the sign for banana together. This last page is the icing on the cake because it gives us a fun way to use the signs and interact with each other. As an educator and a parent, I highly recommend this beautifully photographed book to anyone who would like to sign with their baby.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great addition to learning baby signs, June 8, 2004
This review is from: Baby Signs for Mealtime (Board book)
We started out with the "My first baby signs" board book, and once our daughter got a pretty good handle on those signs, I bought the mealtime and the animals books. I wish I'd bought the bedtime book while I was at it. The baby signs books are her favorite books to look at... and now that she knows the sign for "baby", she'll sign "baby" and then what she sees on the page. Even on the front cover of the Animals book, she signs cat because the baby is signing cat. Some of the words in this book don't make a lot of sense to a baby. The "all gone" page, she doesn't sign "all gone" but she signs "drink" and says "ga ga" (means crackers) because that's what's on the page. But you know what, that's ok because 1. She enjoys these books immensely and 2. She's learned a LOT of signs from reading the books constantly. She's been signing 1 month (17 mos old) and knows 35 signs. Once your baby gets a handle on signing, these books won't even be enough, you'll want to find signs for other things that aren't even in the books. I would start with the "First Signs" board book, and see how your baby picks them up (some kids never get an interest in signing so I'm told). Or you can take a chance and buy all 4 books. Don't do what I did and just get a couple because then if your baby really starts catching on you'll be kicking yourself that you didn't get the rest. This book is a great book, but I think the "first signs" book is a better introduction to get your baby interested in signing.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Baby signs, not sign language for babies, January 20, 2005
This review is from: Baby Signs for Mealtime (Board book)
This is a great book. We didn't have the board book for our oldest daughter, now 6, but we had the textbook for parents. The premise is that you learn to communicate with your baby sooner, and facilitate their language development. Your child will slowly stop using the baby signs once they start speaking. Our daughter used baby signs 3 months before she started speaking. We made up some signs, as needed for our family. We have pictures of her using her baby signs now, which are so cute to look back on.
The board book is a great idea, because it plays on baby's attraction to pictures of other babies. My 7-month-old enjoys it, and she really soaks it up. She watches me like a hawk when I make the sign and say the word. I can tell that she really gets it.
From experience, if you want to teach your child ASL or any other language, you will need to use that language at home constantly. If you stop, they will forget everything. So, to teach your child ASL, first you need to learn it. This is definitely not the book for that.
It is, however, a great book for its purpose of helping baby to communicate earlier with family members.
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