"Baby Signs® is one of the best things you can do for your baby. That's why I recommend Baby Signs® to new
parents and why I enthusiastically recommend it to you."
--Robin Hansen, Pediatrician
"I have a baby signer! I always pat his diaper when I change it, so that he will learn the sign. Today I put
him down after he got up from his nap without changing his diaper, so I could grab his outfit real quick,
and he reminded me that I need to change the diaper first... He patted his diaper! I grabbed him up
smiling and cheering, and put him down again, he patted it again, so I changed it right there! He did it
twice today when he had a wet diaper…this is so cool! My baby can talk to me!"
--Candice and Dade (8 months)
I was staying at my parents house ...they have a fireplace in their bedroom with fake logs and they turn
it on every morning. I have never had to stop Gus from crawling or walking into it because we have been
teaching him the sign for hot since about 6 months. When he touched something warm we would say "hot" and
blow (doing the "hot" sign) and we would do it when his food is too hot too. I always say "Be careful, its
Hot - and then I do the hot sign. Well, about a month ago he started doing his own version of the hot sign
and it is with his mouth open and its like he is making the "H" sound when his food is too hot. Yesterday
he walked towards the fireplace, and I said nothing and he looked at me and said "H H H H HOT". Baby signs
is amazing! I swear he is developing language faster than any of the babies in my baby playgroup.
--Lisa, Mom to Gus (12 months)
Around the age of 7 months, I began using the signs for "milk" when we would nurse and "more" when
eating solid foods. Allison picked up on the milk sign within a month or two of me using it. Now if
she's whining and I think that's what she wants, I ask her "Milk?" while signing and she does it back
at me. There is no doubt in mind that she wants to nurse! Sometimes if she is upset, she will sign for
milk, since nursing calms her. At her one year doctor appointment she was crying for the dr. He looked
at me and said "what does this mean" and he was doing the sign for "milk". I knew exactly what it meant,
she wanted momma to calm her with nursing! I also love the "more" sign ~ it's a great alternative
to whining and pointing to her food!
--Shari, Mom to Allison (7 months)
I'm so excited because if I sign book she will go get a book. Well, the last couple of days
when I do the sign for eat she stops what she is doing and runs over to her highchair and puts
her arms up to get in. She does do the sign for frog when I show her a picture of one. We have
been teaching Alexis our own sign for I love you (patting your heart with your hand). When her
daddy came in this morning she looked at him and did the sign. It just melted his heart!
--Debbie, Mom to Alexis
Dylan is now 13 months and signing away. She does about 10 signs now! She is also talking so
much more then her peers at school, even the ones that are much older then her. She says
over 10 recognizable words, and she can repeat almost everything we say on top of that! Signing
certainly did NOT delay her speech and has helped us to understand her in so many ways. For
instance, when she had the flu I wasn't sure when to give her food again, afraid she would throw
up again. I kept giving her Pedialite, and one morning she woke up and did the sign for eat. I
was still too afraid so I said, “Oh, you must be thirsty.”
I tried to give her a sippy cup, but she pushed it away and did the sign for eat again over and over.
I gave her some dry waffles and she kept them down! I was so happy that she could express she
was hungry and ready for that solid food after being sick for so long instead of crying and I
would have NEVER figured it out.
--Donna Ackerman, Mom to Dylan (13 months)
"My son is doing about 18 signs and he understands over 40. He's not even a year old yet. I'm so glad we did the class and learned the Baby Signs. Now he looks in his Baby Signs books and does some of the signs."
L.R.--Gilbert, AZ
One of my most favored moments is when the kids were outside playing, my youngest son, Dustin, who was 2 at the time, came running into the house while I was cooking supper. He was signing “Tree” “Help” “Hurt” “Brother” “Please” “Mommy” “Outside”. I was baffled because he blew me away with all these signs I didn’t think he even knew! I went outside and sure enough in the tree, Trevor (brother), was crying (hurt), and needed help please from mommy to get down! Trevor had gotten caught on a branch with his pants and couldn’t move.
--Sabrina Waldron, Mom to Dustin and Trevor, age 2
When my twins were 18 months old, we were at a playgroup with about 5 other sets of twins. Nathan had signed MILK behind my back, so I hadn’t seen it. Jordan saw this and went and found his sippy cup that he had dropped in the other room and gave it to him, for which he signed THANK YOU to her. Another mom saw this and was flabbergasted. She was instantly convinced of the benefits of signing at that point.
--Karleen, Mom to Nolan, Nathan and Jordan
One time Jimmy started throwing things at Julianna. I’d hear crying and screaming in the other room and come running in to find out what happened. Since she was crying she didn’t want to talk. I asked Jimmy what happened, and he signed “cry” + “throw”+”drink”+hurt. He had thrown the sippy cup at her and it hit her in the head. Then I was able to get him to apologize by signing “sorry” and give her a hug. If they weren’t able to sign, I would have never known what had happened, and just thought she fell or hurt herself.
-- Michelle Cromeenes, Mom to Jimmy and Julianna
"It really helps a lot. What I found incredible is that they are not only naming things, like cat, but are also coming up with abstract gestures like “later” and “sad.”
--Hattie Kaufman, CBS This Morning
"The authors' research has shown that 11-month-olds who learned gestures [Baby Signs] outscored their peers in language abilities a few months later, a bonus that remained in place at age 3. Now the team has completed data showing that those same children outperformed their peers on a standard IQ test given at age 8. Indeed, the 32 children who had learned sign language as babies did an average of 12 points better on the IQ test. They scored an average of 114, while the 37 children who had never learned signs averaged 102. The researchers controlled for family income, education and other factors that influence IQ scores. The average child in the USA gets a 100 on the test."
--USA Today