Customer Reviews

My First Book of Sign

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

The thing that impresses me most about this book is it's accessibility for children of very young ages. My daughter, who just turned three, has been using this book for the last year. She has learned almost every sign in the book and uses them on a daily basis. I looked everywhere for a book that had bright, colorful pictures of the objects/concepts being signed along with the illustration of how to do the sign.

I read the other reviews and I will clarify. I looked at the book and it is in ASL, no "initialized" signs as seen in signed english. It is one of the best books of it's type. A couple of the signs are hard to read the direction or orientation of the movement, that is the case with ANY of these books. There are always going to be a couple that are hard to put down on two dimentional paper, because it is a 3-D language. I noticed the sign for "Drive" is really "car", common mistake, and a "classifier" was used for "ship". Overall, a very good source.

Hello! Many of you may have seen the Dateling show where they were teaching their babies sign. I know some sign language but didn't think to use it with my baby. But when I saw that show I started using simple words for everyday thing with my 13 month old. He started picking them up in 2 weeks. Words like milk, cracker, medicine, eat. But there were alot of food words i did not remember, so I ordered this book. I ordered it thru a book club, and not at the book store, so i did not know the contents. I am very sorry I did. I Know about 75% of the signs in that book, and I want to say that if I did not know them, I would never been able to do them by reading the illustrations in this book. They are not clear at all and do not have any written disciption of how to do the sign. Signing to my son has made a difference, less crying, he cannot talk yet but he can let me know what he wants. But please spend your money on another signing book

This Book has very nice bright pictures but it is very hard to
follow as far as knowing what the hand movements are. There is a section in the back of the book that has sign descriptions for every sign but it's very slow going if you don't know the sign and you have to turn to the back of the book to check hand position. I was quite disapointed in this book.

This book is an excellent source to teach children and even adults sign language. The illustrations are accurate in their represenation of sign. It is coloful and visually attractive which makes it easy to read. The black and white manual alphabet, the fingerspelling, signing and aspects of sign provide excellent directions and pointers to singing correctly. The sign descriptions are a great supplement to the illustrations.

I recommend this for parents, teachers and students as an itroduction or foundation to sign language.

It would have earned 5 stars if it differentiated between "sign language" and American Sign Language".

Being an educator I congratulate Baker for writing such a helpful book.

I recently bought several books for learning sign language since my 3 year old has delayed speech, and this is my least favorite. It is hard to tell from the pictures what they are doing and the description is in another section of the book which is a pain to flip back and forth The pictures are ok, but there are better ones. If you are looking for a kids picture book, try My First 100 Words (Sign Language) by Scholastic, and Michiyo Nelson. Or if you are serious about learning signs to teach your baby try The Baby Signing Book.

It is great my son loves it and we read it everyday and learn more signs everyday.