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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.

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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.

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Research is now confirming what we have known for years – communication is so much more than words. Our human interaction relies so much on the visual stimulation and interaction.

They are now finding, through careful studies of the brain that visual communication is processed by the exact part of the brain that processes our spoken communication. This is a breakthrough not only for medical research but for those wishing to teach Baby Sign Language to their child.

Printable sign language for kids makes it easier for you to refer to the signs. Print our free chart so that you can place it in a prominent part of your house and remember to do the signs frequently.

There are so many benefits from learning to sign with your children:

• The gestures used in Baby Sign Language are universal – the vast majority of the keyword signs used in children’s or baby sign language are the same world-wide.

• Printable sign language for kids is a fantastic way to initiate communication with your baby, toddler or child.

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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.

If you have been using baby sign language with your child from an early age it is likely that they will start to develop speech much earlier than their peers. By providing them with a communication tool such as baby signing, they will realize the benefits of communication earlier and be looking for more complex ways to get their point across.

The transition from baby sign language to speech will depend on how you have been using the baby signs. Providing that you have not replaced the need for speech with the use of baby signs everything should be fine. Baby signing will usually increase the comprehension of words and so when coupled with the spoken language will be a great benefit in the child’s speech development.

If your child is not meeting the speech development milestones you should seek advice from your pediatrician. If it does turn out to be the case that your child is suffering from delayed speech the sign language will be a huge benefit. Every child follows their own unique developmental timeline. Your baby should be able to be understood at 31 months by the members in their family. If this isn’t the case it might be time to seek help.

The transition from baby sign language to speech is usually progressive. The baby will be able to speak and sign a few words. They may choose to combine a spoken word with the baby signs to get their point across. As they begin to communicate in sentences, they may try putting several words or several signs together. Once they have reached this stage, mostly children will chose to drop the sign and just use the word. They may revert back to the signs when they are tired but eventually they will go on to use more complicated sentences and the signs will be obsolete.

This will all happen naturally, the only thing you need to do is support their speech development by talking to them often. Baby Sign Language can be a wonderful tool to help in the progression to speech.

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.

When I first started to sign to my baby, she was only 4 months old. I have to admit, at this age it seemed like it would be a long time before she would be signing back to me. Now she is 16 months old and I am so glad that we did engage in teaching her baby signing from such as early age, the benefits are just amazing. Ian has been signing for many many years, he has worked in the disability sector as a sign language instructor. I am a research scientist and as a parent I am very proactive in researching what the best thing is for my kids. In fact, it was Ian’s idea and goal to have his baby daughter learn sign language; he has had this dream for a long time now. You should see how he is with her toddler signing now, he is so proud.

When we started our sign language journey with Scarlette she was so little. There had been some complications but she was a very healthy but a very little baby. I remember her little innocent face, taking it all in as we talked to her. I have always been really animated with my little ones, I know how much they love to read your facial expressions. Introducing toddler signing just gave us another medium for interaction. It was met with a little bit of curiosity to begin with but I am sure that she understood us after 2 weeks of consistent signing. We followed the principals of Toddler Interpreter, where you only begin with the first sign until they shown a ’sign’ of recognition. For us, it was very clear. We would sign for ‘milk’ and she would get excited. At this very early stage we knew she understood because she would squeal, flap her arms and look pleased. That really is all they can do at that early age. It was only a short while though until she was old enough to look around the corner and make sure that I had in fact prepared a ‘milk’ for her. I will always remember this day because I was walking down the hallway explaining to her after she woke that it was time for ‘milkies’. She tipped her head around the corner as I approached the kitchen to see that her bottle was waiting in the warmer. I rang Ian so excited…she had got it! My signing and talking was actually making sense to a 5 month old baby and I was just amazed.

This really was a small step now that I look back at our toddler signing journey. It was going to be a long time until she could sign to us however I didn’t care, it had already proven to work for me. As long as she could understand me we were half way there. The thing that grabs me the most is how much these tiny little babies understand. It isn’t until you provide them with a means of communication that you actually get to see how much of what we say makes sense to them.

Looking back at how far she has come I am so proud of her. She uses her toddler signs every day to let us know what is going on in her world. There is such a big personality in there that I am sure wouldn’t have developed as much it it weren’t for the fact that we introduced toddler signing to her at such an early age. Now when she sees a puppy dog she furiously signs for ‘puppy’, when she needs to go to the toilet she does the sign for ‘toilet’ and when she is hungry or thirsty she also signs to us. She has about 20 toddler signs that she can do very well now and there are new ones each day. In fact the other day, she did the sign for ‘baby’ which is one that we hadn’t shown her for many months. She also gives us loads of kisses and cuddles which is all you can ask for as a parent. We are so lucky to have a healthy and happy little baby and even luckier to have one that is so clever with her little hands.

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.

Baby Sign Language is based on ‘keyword signing’ and involves the use of simple gestures for words that are important to the baby. Each gesture is to be used with repetition of the associated spoken word making babies more interested in the meaning of keywords from an earlier age. It should never replace the need for the spoken word.

Baby Sign Language is becoming increasingly popular. Many people won’t realise that its use is supported by over 30 years of research. Some people who do not recognise the long term benefits of signing with their hearing babies may be excused for thinking that it is a fad or the latest passing trend in modern parenting. However the research is clear and the parents already using Baby Sign Language are united. It is a very simple solution to a very frustrating problem.

Infants already use an extensive range of facial expressions and body language to communicate with their parents and Baby Sign Language is a natural extension of this behaviour. They squirm when they are uncomfortable; put their arms up to be picked up when you walk by and later they learn to point at things.

Babies are fascinated with movement, especially when the movement is performed by a parent. In the beginning the baby will associate the movement with the word. In the case of ‘milk’, this association is made easily as they are rewarded with their favourite comfort and associate this with the gesture. This ties it all together; the use of the gesture and the spoken word followed through with the actual item.

The first step is having them understand what you are signing to them. It is suggested that you only use one sign such as the sign for ‘milk’ at this early stage so they don’t become confused. You can begin this as early as 3-4 months of age. With the sign for ‘milk’ it is easy to recognise that you have been understood when they go into flapping frenzy and get excited. By about 8-9 months of age they will be able to ask for ‘milk’ by replicating the sign. As a parent this is just as exciting as any other milestone they reach. Once they are able to sign back to you, slowly introduce another sign or two until you develop a vocabulary for all the important things you would like to communicate.

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. The benefits of Baby Sign Language also include earlier communication, reduced frustration, increased language comprehension and further opportunities for bonding between parent and baby.

Teaching Baby Sign Language also teaches your child 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.

Some parents express concern that using Sign Language may inhibit the speech development of their child. There is no cause for concern however; because you are using ‘keyword signing’ you are enhancing the comprehension of the word not replacing the need for spoken language. It is very important that you continue to use the spoken word with the gestures to enhance the speech development. National Institute of Health funded research demonstrated that babies who were using Baby Sign Language were able to communicate with spoken language 3 months earlier than babies who were not. Even more astounding was the fact that these same children went on to develop language comprehension skills that were 12 months ahead of their peers by the time they reached school age.  The easiest way of teaching toddlers to talk is using Baby Sign Language from a very early age.

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.

Toddler Interpreter, Not Just a Baby Sign Language Dictionary

Toddler Interpreter, A Parent’s Guide to Baby Sign Language for Hearing Babies and Toddlers is more than just a Baby Sign Language Dictionary though. Unlike many Baby Sign Language resources, Toddler Interpreter has a structure so that you know which Baby Signs are more relevant to teach first. Rather than just providing a Baby Sign Language Dictionary where it is left up to you to navigate and choose which Baby Signs you need to teach first, Toddler Interpreter also provides the Baby Signs broken down into 5 Stages of Learning. Each stage contains 12 Baby Signs.

The First Stage of Learning contains all of the most basic Baby Signs, such as Milk, Mommy, Daddy, Eat, Sleep – these are all very relevant for a baby who is just starting out with their communication. Stage One focuses on all of the babies needs, this helps the baby understand that this form of communication is beneficial to them, encouraging them to take it further.

Stage Two completes all of the basics of communication such as naming things and people, ownership and looking for something. Stage two also introduces the concept of putting two signs together such as ‘more milk’ and ‘where’s Daddy’ to enable the baby to communicate the concept of asking for more and looking for someone or something.

The remaining Stages of Learning, Stages Three to Five aim to provide more vocabulary and expand on the concepts already learnt. The signs progress at the same pace as the baby’s language skills which is a perfect lead into for the baby’s speech development.

Toddler Interpreter is the only Baby Sign Language resource that contains a Baby Sign Language Dictionary as well as easy to follow Stages of Learning making it an easier learning path for both the parent and baby.

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.

Why Teach Baby Sign Language

As with anything that is a unique concept there will be skeptics. Many people wonder why they would teach their child Sign Language when their child doesn’t have a hearing impairment. Others worry what people will think when they see you communicating in public with Baby Sign Language. Thankfully due to much media attention and a greater community of signing parents, Baby Sign Language is becoming very popular. People in general are more aware of what Baby Sign Language is all about and the associated benefits. 

Research shows the benefits of baby sign language.

A National Institute of Health (NIH) funded experimental study was conducted by Drs Linda Acredolo and Susan Goodwyn in 1989 to determine if Baby Sign Language would delay speech development in children. The study assigned the children into two groups, one that used Baby Sign Language and one that did not. Children were recruited at the age of eleven months and their language development was followed until they were three years old. Language assessments designed to measure comprehension and language production were conducted at intervals during the study. The ability to put words into sentences and intellectual development was measured at 24 months. The most interesting finding was that the average scores of children using Baby Sign Language were higher than the control group who were not using Baby Sign Language. At twenty-four months, the signing children had a three month developmental advantage over the non-signing children. Even more amazing was that at thirty-six months, this had increased to be equivalent to a twelve month advantage in their overall language skills and comprehension.

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 can be taught 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 and other babies at risk of developing a speech delay.