Product Details

• Format: Color, Digital Sound, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Baby Hands Productions
• DVD Release Date: July 15, 2004
• Run Time: 45 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (210 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002KJJHI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,974 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

My Baby Can Talk - First Signs The My Baby Can Talk - First Signs DVD is designed to be baby's first introduction to preverbal communication. It also provides an introduction to sign language in a format designed to delight the senses while tapping into the baby's language capabilities. The DVD is created to encourage interaction while set to classical music. The DVD takes the whole family on an inspiring adventure to discover the words and signs of the most loved baby words. The My Baby Can Talk - First Signs DVD is backed up by research which has shown that babies using sign language tend to speak sooner and with larger vocabulary. IQ scores increase and sophisticated play also increases. Most babies are developed enough to start the exercise at around 10 months. It uses the American Sign Language system of sign language to introduce words including eat, drink, milk, more, book, and go. It is honored with more than six prestigious parenting awards and has been reviewed and endorsed by professionals in the media as well as childhood educators.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

176 of 178 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent DVD, fascinating for babies, easy to learn signs, July 23, 2004

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Monica Beyer "Signing mom and author" (St. Joseph, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Baby Can Talk - First Signs (DVD)

I am an experienced signing parent, having signed with my second son and am currently signing with my 20-month-old daughter. I have seen many signing videos over the last four years, both as a parent and as a professional in the baby signing industry. Upon viewing My Baby Can Talk™ - First Signs DVD for the first time, I was very impressed for a number of reasons.

For starters, the movie itself is extremely engaging. I have my own little group of testers here in the house (three children) and I gauged their reactions carefully. My little girl, the youngest at 20 months, watched it the whole way through the first time with me by her side. She was able to connect the signs with the images on the screen quite easily with a little help from mom and genuinely enjoyed the footage of the animals the best (the panda having a snack is her favorite). I have not seen my daughter love a movie as much as she loves this one. She wants to watch it every day.

I also thought that it is really great to show both an adult as well as a baby signing every sign. This is helpful in more than one way - children get to see another child in their age group signing and they also get to see the sign signed with more precision by an adult. The repetition in the movie is perfect as well as the variety of images shown. It really reinforces the sign.

Love the classical music score, love the images, love the variety of signs ... all in all, 5 stars!

98 of 103 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An addendum to my review..., November 1, 2005

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Kim Smith "Mommy of twin girls" (Deltona, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Baby Can Talk - First Signs (DVD)

After reading many of the reviews for this DVD, I've seen a lot of people commenting on the lack of certain words like "please", "thank you", etc. I would like to point out that this video is designed for infants and young toddlers -- their first words are almost always nouns..."doggie", "kitty", and THINGS in their world that they like. Introducing the concept of signing please & thank you at this age is inappropriate. Any parent who is hard-of-hearing or has experience signing to their child will tell you that they learn signs for THINGS (nouns)first. I have been learning & using ASL since I was a teenager, and my daughters have been signed to since birth...in complete concepts (sentences)...and their first signs were "dog" and "fish" because those were the things they liked. One of my girls is JUST NOW getting the concept, at 18 months, that the sign "please" has something to do with wanting something. In summary, just enjoy teaching your infant nouns and basic wants ("more")...and leave "please" & "thank you" for when they are ready to understand it. :-)

35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's a pretty good DVD, but there are definitely better ones out there, January 2, 2006

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Chilling Out "Love Music" (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Baby Can Talk - First Signs (DVD)

I have many different sign language DVD's for babies and have to say that this is not one of my favourites, though it is a cute little DVD.

PROS:
-It is wonderful to see the baby doing the signs. It is so important for parents to see what signs look like on little hands so they know what to look for from their own baby.
-It uses ASL signs - ASL signs are not too difficult for babies and have so many benefits to using them over using made up signs like "Baby Signs" uses in their videos.

CONS:
-Many of the ASL signs used in this video are ones I rarely see used. In ASL there are some variations of signs used that will differ regionally, but this video seems to pick ones for some of the signs on the video that I haven't seen used on any other DVD or in any ASL dictionary I have.
-The woman who does the signs has little to no facial expression when signing. Just the same smile throughout. Even with babies I think using facial expression when signing is so important to them understanding the meaning behind many of the signs. ASL is a lively language so I wish the instructor livened it up a bit and was more expressive.
-This DVD just didn't keep my own children's or my daycare children's attention for long at all. About the only thing that really caught their attention on this video was the little SHOE ditty.

If you are looking for a DVD for babies 6-36 mths. I highly recommend The Treasure Chest: Toys and Signs. If you are looking for a great DVD series for children 18-24 mths. and up I would highly recommend the Signing Time series.