Would like to find a better way to communicate with your little one that doesn’t involve crying, tantrums and screaming?

Simple Baby Sign Language can help your baby tell you what they want and when they want it.

Communicating with your baby or toddler using Baby Sign Language is one of the most rewarding experiences of being a parent.

Babies that are understood feel more relaxed and secure. Many parents report that babies who use baby signing cry less often, making parenting easier and less stressful. Understanding your baby in those early months and years means you can respond to their needs without second guessing what they need.

In the very early months, your baby’s needs are very simple. They want to be fed, changed, played with or put to bed. Our baby sign language program caters for these basic needs by teaching the signs for these most basic needs first.

As your baby develops and grows, they begin learning at a rapid rate. In conjunction with child development experts, Toddler Interpreter has specifically designed the first baby sign language program to match your baby’s natural communication development. With Toddler Interpreter there is no guessing where to start or what to teach next.

Our Toddler Interpreter program encourages speech development, providing visual cues for keywords that are easy for the baby to remember and relevant to their daily routines. The signs are taught in the same order as they would naturally learn to speak the words. This also helps your baby to learn the comprehension of the spoken word at an accelerated rate.

Communication is a key part of your baby’s social development and you can help this process immensely with very little effort. By teaching baby sign language you will be giving your baby a great foundation for learning at a very early age, much earlier than if you waited until they could speak. Baby Sign Language gives you an opportunity to communicate with your baby before they can talk. Your baby knows exactly what they want and need at around 6 months of age; however it can be a further one to two years, sometimes even longer before they are able to tell you in words. Baby signing bridges this communication gap.

Baby Sign Language also offers many opportunities for fun and enjoyment. Watching your baby do their first baby sign is as exciting as their first steps and their first words. Your baby grows and learns so much in these first few precious years and Baby Sign Language allows you to share every moment and new experience and share in each other’s interests, likes and dislikes.

Baby Sign Language is so easy to learn and remember and we provide you with simple instructions on how to get started. There is no need to know sign language to learn our baby sign language, after all it is intended to be easy enough for a small baby to do and remember.

There is no right or wrong time to start teaching baby sign language; your baby will enjoy the benefits of enhanced communication whether they are 6 months old or 30 months old. Don’t delay, teaching these simple baby sign language gestures can help you to avoid the frustration of the pre-verbal years, the sooner you start, the better off you will be. You can avoid worrying about those terrible tantrums, your baby will be able to tell you exactly what they want and when they want it. No more guessing games that end in tears.

Imagine if your baby could tell you that he was hungry by putting his fingers to his lips, or that he was tired by putting his hand to his head. Baby Sign Language provides a way for your baby to communicate instead of crying, but it is also a great deal of fun, an adorable way to interact with your little one and can provide a great insight to your babies developing personality.

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 Toddler Interpreter is one of the Worlds Leading Baby Sign Language programs, used by thousands of parent’s worldwide. We are also one of the fastest growing Baby Sign Language companies, attributed to our wonderful resources that are easy to use and implement.

Our products have been tried and tested and are already implemented into thousands of households.  

This short video is of one of our youngest signing stars Scarlette using Baby Sign Language at the age of 10 months. She is 26 months old now and has been using Toddler Interpreter baby sign language for over 16 months. She signs for so many different things such as milk, more, finished, hat, puppy, toilet, thank-you, bird, full, eat, drink, where, shower, fish, sleep, love, brother, quiet and baby as well as a few that she has invented herself!  Now that she is almost talking in sentences, on the occasion she will include a sign to emphasise her point, especially when she thinks we aren’t paying her enough attention!

Using Baby Sign Language with your baby can improve the bonding and communication as well as enhance your babies social skills and language comprehension.  Many parents report that the frustration of the terrible twos is reduced by using baby sign language because they can be understood though the use of baby sign language.

This free baby sign language chart contains all the baby signs that you need to get started. Our Baby Sign Language program is very easy to follow and many of these signs will look very familiar to you.

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The first stage of learning baby sign language is where they understand you. This can begin as early as 4 months – much earlier than most people get a chance to have a understanding and proper communication with their little one. This continues on and builds until they have the ability to copy the signs and do them with you. At this stage they will do the sign back to you, or at least acknowledge that they understand your words and signs. 

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Toddler Interpreter teach Baby Signs and they offer the best Free Baby Sign Language Chart  available online and their Baby Sign Language Book is used by parents and childcare centres in the United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to Teach Baby Sign Language. Sign Language for Babies is easy using Toddler Interpreter’s comprehensive Baby Sign Language Dictionary. Sign Language for Toddlers can help reduce frustration and Baby Sign Language has proved very beneficial for Premature Babies, children with Velo Cardio Facial Syndrome and other babies at risk of developing a speech delay.

It all begins when they are very little by using some simple hand signals. These hand signals are universal meaning that they are the same in every language worldwide. These hand signals are often natural gestures that we use every day without realizing it. Many people begin learning sign language for babies only to discover that they naturally started this process without even knowing it. This process is just added to with some additional gestures through our Baby Sign Language program.

Communication involves the spoken word but much of what we say is also communicated through our body language. Using baby signing teaches the baby that there is more to communication than just words. It is really important that the sign is used with the word, signing does not replace the need for words, rather it compliments them perfectly. As you progress with your signing, it becomes a natural process that is used without thinking. It isn’t very difficult to get to this stage as the signs are easy to remember but also very natural hand gestures.  

Babies are fascinated with their parents and are naturally attracted to movement. Many think that they need to wait until the baby is nine months old to begin sign language however our personal experience was that our baby understood what we signed to her from about 4-5 months. This provided us with much enjoyment of course but it was also really practical. At this very young age there is little chance that she would have understood the spoken word for things like ‘milk’ ‘more’ and ‘sleep’. However, the use of these baby signs allowed her to understand us. When she woke in the morning, we would sign to her that we were making her a milk bottle and she would be both relieved and excited that we knew what she needed.

There is about a 5 month period where the baby understands your signs but can’t sign back yet, and this is when we found sign language to be very beneficial. From about 9-10 months of age she has started to sign back to us. No matter how in tune you are with your babies routine, there will always be a time when you need a little reminder that it is ‘milk’ time, and there is no doubt with her little hand opening and closing at us that she knows exactly what she wants. Sign language for babies can be a wonderful way to communicate with your baby and it brings many opportunities for two way conversations and shared experiences. 

Toddler Interpreter teach Baby Signs and they offer the best Free Baby Sign Language Chart  available online and their Baby Sign Language Book is used by parents and childcare centres in the United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to Teach Baby Sign Language. Sign Language for Babies is easy using Toddler Interpreter’s comprehensive Baby Sign Language Dictionary. Sign Language for Toddlers can help reduce frustration and Baby Sign Language has proved very beneficial for Premature Babies, children with Velo Cardio Facial Syndrome and other babies at risk of developing a speech delay.

This method of communication allows the parent to enjoy two way conversations about the babies needs and wants much earlier than would naturally be afforded. Communicating with baby sign language is very easy to introduce into your home. After all, the baby signs have been developed specifically to be easy enough for a 6 month old baby to do, it can’t be that difficult!

When you are just starting out signing with your baby, you should begin with a few easy to remember signs. These signs are simple gestures that are both easy to perform and remember. The most relevant sign to begin with is the sign for ‘milk’, because this is something that is in high demand by the baby at this age. It is also very rewarding for the baby when they get what they asked for because at this age, milk is also one of their favorite comforts.

Signing for ‘milk’ is really easy. The sign can be performed with one hand or two hands, it doesn’t really matter. You perform the sign for milk by opening and closing your hand, as if milking a cow. The signs used in baby sign language are very symbolic. This makes them much easier to understand. Each sign represents a natural gesture that you would probably do without even knowing any sign language. This is why it is so easy to learn and remember.

Using baby signing with your baby or toddler can help you to communicate with them while they are first learning to talk. Many babies are able to use this early form of communication well before they can speak any words at all. This can reduce the frustration they would normally feel when they are pointing and trying to be understood without words. The comprehension of the baby signs is also enhanced because it re-enforces the meaning of the words from a very early age. Toddler Interpreter has a handbook that contains 60 of the most useful baby signs, and the book is the perfect size for your handbag so you can carry it with you. 

Baby Signs

Toddler Interpreter teach Baby Signs and they offer the best Free Baby Sign Language Chart  available online and their Baby Sign Language Book is used by parents and childcare centres in the United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to Teach Baby Sign Language. Sign Language for Babies is easy using Toddler Interpreter’s comprehensive Baby Sign Language Dictionary. Sign Language for Toddlers can help reduce frustration and Baby Sign Language has proved very beneficial for Premature Babies, children with Velo Cardio Facial Syndrome and other babies at risk of developing a speech delay.

This book contains all the information you require to get started on your baby signing journey with your baby or toddler. The signs are presented in the main content section of the book in the order that they are intended to be taught. At the back of the book there is an alphabetical list of each of the signs with a photograph of the sign as part of the baby sign language dictionary.

Baby Sign Language is very easy to teach – after all it is intended to be used by 6-9 month old babies. The signs in Toddler Interpreter are presented in 5 easy stages of learning, so that the most relevant signs are taught first. These signs are the ones that are most likely to be required early on and they are also the easiest signs to perform. This is what sets this book apart from the others as many baby signing ‘how to’ guides only contain a baby sign language dictionary. The first sign starting with the letter ‘a’ may not be the most relevant sign so you are left wondering “where do I start?”

The most important thing to remember if you are teaching baby signs to your little one is that the signs do not replace the need for words. Baby signing is meant to compliment the speech development process therefore it is essential that the word accompanies the signs each and every time. This helps to re-enforce the association between the spoken word, the sign for that word and its meaning. All of this leads to a better comprehension of the spoken language from an early age and the benefits can flow on right up until school age. The baby sign language dictionary at the back of Toddler Interpreter is a great quick reference guide and the pocket sized book is the perfect size to carry with you. 

Toddler Interpreter teach Baby Signs and they offer the best Free Baby Sign Language Chart  available online and their Baby Sign Language Book is used by parents and childcare centres in the United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to Teach Baby Sign Language. Sign Language for Babies is easy using Toddler Interpreter’s comprehensive Baby Sign Language Dictionary. Sign Language for Toddlers can help reduce frustration and Baby Sign Language has proved very beneficial for Premature Babies, children with Velo Cardio Facial Syndrome and other babies at risk of developing a speech delay.

It has been a fascinating journey watching our little girl growing up, her larger than life personality, her energy and her infectious laugh. Her baby sign language skills are wonderful, and every opportunity she has to communicate she does.

We have a routine, weather permitting, where we take a walk along the street and Scarlette has the opportunity to investigate the amazing world around her. When she sees a bird she will point, make a cute little noise and then do the baby sign for bird.

It’s the same with dogs, there are a few in our neighborhood, when she sees or hears a dog (we say puppy) she taps her hip signing for dog (and sticks out her tongue because that’s what the puppies do!).

One of the mothers in the street was walking her dog past the other day and Scarlette was patting her hip frantically, I said “good girl Scarlette, It’s a puppy”. The lady was amazed when I explained to her that Scarlette was doing baby sign language, she had never heard of it. I then said to Scarlette, “how do we say toilet”, she then put her finger in the middle of her palm (the baby sign for toilet), we then went on to show the lady the signs for shower, brother, thank you, baby and quiet. By this stage the lady’s jaw was on the floor. She could not believe the level of skill and understanding that our little 16 month girl had. I explained to her that we had been using baby sign language from the age of 4 months starting with just one baby sign, ‘milk’, then progressing on from there.

All our friends comment to us about how happy Scarlette is all the time, she always seems content. Well, she always asks for what she needs, and we provide it for her. There is no guess work in our parenting; it has made our lives so much easier allowing us to have two way communication with our daughter through baby signs.

We have started the journey of toilet training now, when she signs for toilet, we scoop her up and sit her on the toilet, sometimes she has already done a wee and she is letting us know that she is wet, either way her needs are met and she is happy.

We are introducing a new baby sign language sign every day now as Scarlette shows more and more interest in everything around her, it really is a wonderful experience watching our little girl learn the importance of communication, and more importantly, through baby sign language, that communication is about much more than just words.

Toddler Interpreter teach Baby Signs and they offer the best Free Baby Sign Language Chart  available online and their Baby Sign Language Book is used by parents and childcare centres in the United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to Teach Baby Sign Language. Sign Language for Babies is easy using Toddler Interpreter’s comprehensive Baby Sign Language Dictionary. Sign Language for Toddlers can help reduce frustration and Baby Sign Language has proved very beneficial for Premature Babies, children with Velo Cardio Facial Syndrome and other babies at risk of developing a speech delay.

Babies understand and know what it is that they want from an early age – about 6 months. For some, it can be another 12 months or even longer before they have the ability to communicate these needs with the people around them. How frustrating to know what you want but not be able to speak – this is the reality for our little ones each and every day.

Most parents and caregivers establish a routine with their babies. This does lesson the burden of the frequent misunderstandings however there is an easier way to communicate before this speech is developed fully – it’s called Baby Sign Language. People may think that this is the latest parenting craze or a new trend that you have to keep up with. The truth is that we have instinctually been using baby signs to communicate with our little ones for such a long time. For instance, you may have a particular gesture or facial expression that you use every time you express a certain emotion to your baby. The baby returns these simple gestures with their own sign language – they point, hand you something or they nod their head. Sometimes they extend their arms to you to signal that they want you to pick them up.

Imagine if you could develop this further so that you had 10 – 20 gestures or signals that you consistently used and mutually understood – wouldn’t life be a little easier? That is what baby sign language is all about, simplifying the communication process. Babies are between 12-30 months by the time that they have developed the ability to speak properly. It takes this long because a complicated sequence of events needs to occur before they are able to put together the correct mouth shape, tongue movement and vocal sounds. Until they work this out it is a guessing game. One that sometimes ends in tears (and this works both ways too!). Having a few simple gestures to help you understand each other can provide mutual enjoyment as well as ease the frustration. Learning Baby Sign Language is not only fun but practical and the benefits extend way beyond the first few years.

Baby Sign Language 

Toddler Interpreter teach Baby Signs and they offer the best Free Baby Sign Language Chart  available online and their Baby Sign Language Book is used by parents and childcare centres in the United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to Teach Baby Sign Language. Sign Language for Babies is easy using Toddler Interpreter’s comprehensive Baby Sign Language Dictionary. Sign Language for Toddlers can help reduce frustration and Baby Sign Language has proved very beneficial for Premature Babies, children with Velo Cardio Facial Syndrome and other babies at risk of developing a speech delay.

Growth and brain development during these early years, especially the first 2 years is more rapid than at any other stage of a child’s life. One of the most crucial milestones in a child’s development is the development of their social skills and the ability to interact appropriately with others. The basis for appropriate social interaction is effective communication.

Teaching a body language based communication method such as baby sign language at an early age can encourage mutual understanding and provides a strong foundation for the development of social skills. It also enhances the bond between parent and child as they feel understood and secure in their environment and relationships.

Infants are naturally attracted to movement especially when the movement is performed by a parent. Each gesture is to be used with repetition of the associated word making babies more interested in the meaning of keywords from an earlier age. These baby signs will help them express their wants and needs.

Babies and children in general believe that the whole world revolves around them. They are the centre of the universe as they know it. On the contrary though, they have absolutely no control over what happens in their world. They suffer the limitations of a world without speech. For children with slightly delayed speech development this frustration can often be the worst. As boys tend to speak later than girls, this frustration in boys can sometimes lead to problems with aggression. Some children are simply more interested in developing their motor skills than their verbal skills. Either way, signing with them from an early age will help their communication development.

Teaching your baby sign language also teaches them that there is more to communication and social interaction than just words. Effective communication does involve hand gestures, body movements and facial expression. Being a visual language it is fascinating to children as it stimulates their curiosity and attentiveness towards further communication.

Toddler Interpreter teach Baby Signs and they offer the best Free Baby Sign Language Chart  available online and their Baby Sign Language Book is used by parents and childcare centres in the United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to Teach Baby Sign Language. Sign Language for Babies is easy using Toddler Interpreter’s comprehensive Baby Sign Language Dictionary. Sign Language for Toddlers can help reduce frustration and Baby Sign Language has proved very beneficial for Premature Babies, children with Velo Cardio Facial Syndrome and other babies at risk of developing a speech delay.

Joseph Garcia, as sign language interpreter, had a wide network of friends in the deaf community. He noted that the hearing offspring of signing deaf parents used signing long before their spoken language developed.

Drs. Linda Acredolo and Susan Goodwyn conducted a longitudinal study funded by the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development using a collection of baby sign language gestures that they called ‘Baby Signs’. The study showed that babies taught Baby Sign Language understood more words, had larger vocabularies and engaged in more sophisticated play than non-signing babies. Parents of the babies in the study using Baby Sign Language noted decreased frustration, increased communication, and enriched parent-infant bonding. They revisited the families in the original Baby Sign Language study when the children were seven and eight years old. The children who used Baby Sign Language had a mean IQ of 114 compared to the non-signing control group’s mean of 102 (Acredolo and Goodwyn, 2000). Since these early days Baby Sign Language has grown into a worldwide phenomenon.

The Baby Sign Language forged ahead with these two themes, one teaching the language of the hearing impaired the other teaching the original Baby Sign Language program. There is an obvious benefit to the offspring of those who suffer from hearing disabilities. It was also clear from the original Baby Sign Language research that there were benefits to teaching baby signs to children that were not hard of hearing or otherwise at risk of developmental delay.

Since the early days however the focus has changed from simple gestures of Baby Sign Language to communicating with hearing babies using the official language of the deaf community. Even the original Baby Sign Language program pioneered by Drs Acredolo and Goodwyn has evolved into teaching official American Sign Language (ASL). In fact, today, it is a challenge to find any Baby Sign Language resource that is specifically designed for hearing babies; they are all now based on adult sign language.

Today, Baby Sign Language virtually exists as American Sign Language (ASL), British Sign Language (BSL) or Australian Sign Language (AUSLAN) repackaged with a stock photo of a baby on the front cover. Is there any benefit to teaching adult sign language to children that are not hearing impaired? Are we now focusing too much on teaching an adult sign language and losing out on the benefits that the original Baby Sign Language program offered?

Acredolo and Goodwyn (2004) state: “Research has shown that signs are easiest for babies and for parents when they involve simple gestures and when they resemble the things they stand for, e.g. fingers to lips for ‘eat’; arms out straight like wings for ‘airplane.’” If you reinforce particular gestures and particular sounds, babies will develop their communication skills in several different modalities. There does appear to be a short period during which infants can produce more differentiated and controlled hand gestures than speech sounds, but it is a transitory phase.

Is it ethical to be selling the language of the deaf community as a resource for baby’s speech development? Where are the profits of this clever marketing going; rarely do they go back into the deaf community.

Almost all of the marketing material for these so called Baby Sign Language products display children using these resources who are clearly pre-school age and older. There is good reason for this; the traditional sign language signs such as ASL are quite possibly too difficult for most very little hands to do. At 4 months of age a baby will not be able to make ballerina hands, finger spell the alphabet.

Baby Sign Language should be simple enough to be useful for the short period of time before the child can communicate with words. This encompasses an age gap of 4 months to 30 months. The exception to this is if the child has a specific need to communicate with those who are hard of hearing or if the child is showing signs of developmental delay in which case traditional sign language would be recommended.

The research was clear. The benefits of early communication with baby sign language based on simple gestures included earlier speech development, better language comprehension and less guessing games for parents.

“We don’t care if people want to use formal sign language, but it’s not necessary,” Acredolo said. “Kids stop using signs as they speak more words, so the “baby signs” are meant to be temporary.”

Toddler Interpreter teach Baby Signs and they offer the best Free Baby Sign Language Chart  available online and their Baby Sign Language Book is used by parents and childcare centres in the United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to Teach Baby Sign Language. Sign Language for Babies is easy using Toddler Interpreter’s comprehensive Baby Sign Language Dictionary. Sign Language for Toddlers can help reduce frustration and Baby Sign Language has proved very beneficial for Premature Babies, children with Velo Cardio Facial Syndrome and other babies at risk of developing a speech delay.

Baby Sign Language is a gesture-based form of communication used with hearing pre-verbal babies and toddlers. It is an exciting way for parents to communicate with their children before they can talk. Parents communicate with their children through body language and their knowledge of their child?s behavior; Baby Sign Language is an extension of this natural behavior and bridges the gap between guessing what your baby may need and knowing what your baby needs.

As parents, we all wait with excitement for our baby?s first smile, first word or first step. Baby?s communicate with their parents through the only means of communication they know, which a lot of the time involves crying. If a baby is hungry it will cry, wet diaper, cry, and tired, yes once again cry. Knowing what your baby requires is very important, and all parents strive to be the best parent they know how to be. Baby Sign Language allows parents to take the guesswork out of communicating with your baby. By the age of 6 moths, babies are reaching for objects, giggling, recognizing their parents in a room full of people and able to start using Baby Sign Language. It?s very exciting knowing that your little baby, who relies on you for everything, can let you know exactly what they need through the use of simple, body language based communication such as Baby Sign Language.

A question often asked by people is whether or not Baby Sign Language will delay speech in a baby, and the answer is a definite no. In fact, it is the exact opposite. Studies have shown that children who have used Baby Sign Language have developed speech at a younger age and have an increased IQ level. By encouraging your baby to use Baby Sign Language, you are teaching not only a word, but also using your hands to explain the word. By doing this you are ensuring that your baby is using both sides of the brain in a very important stage of human development. The studies have also shown that by the age of 3 that children can be at least 12 months ahead of children who have not used Baby Sign Language. Have you ever seen a pre-verbal toddler throw itself on the floor of the supermarket, screaming and crying? Your first thought maybe ?I wonder why that child is doing that?” If that child was able to communicate exactly what it needed to it parents, do you think it would be throwing itself on the floor having a tantrum?

By the age of 6 months, babies will start to communicate back to their parents using Baby Sign Language. Your baby?s first word does not have to be verbal; it can be a Baby Sign. Signing with your baby every time you are communicating encourages your baby to mimic your movements and tie the word into the gesture. As a parent you are the most important learning tool a baby can ever have. Baby Sign Language will ensure that the frustrations of both parent and baby are minimal through a basic understanding of needs.

Baby Sign Language is now used in households and child care centers worldwide. As parents, if we can reduce the frustrations of our baby?s, and ease the pressure on ourselves, it?s a win for everyone involved. Children develop and learn so quickly, what an amazing opportunity Baby Sign Language gives parents and baby?s to bridge the gap of communication.

Toddler Interpreter teach Baby Signs and they offer the best Free Baby Sign Language Chart  available online and their Baby Sign Language Book is used by parents and childcare centres in the United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to Teach Baby Sign Language. Sign Language for Babies is easy using Toddler Interpreter’s comprehensive Baby Sign Language Dictionary. Sign Language for Toddlers can help reduce frustration and Baby Sign Language has proved very beneficial for Premature Babies, children with Velo Cardio Facial Syndrome and other babies at risk of developing a speech delay.