Through two decades of research, much of it funded by the National Institute of Health, Dr. L. Acredolo and S. Goodwyn have demonstrated that babies who signed were consistently more advanced in their language and speech skills than babies who never signed.
Some parents/caregivers may worry that encouraging their baby/toddler to use signs might hold them back from learning to talk. Research has shown that advanced development improves older children's language skills; toddlers at 2 that had been signing had significantly larger vocabulary than their non-signing peers and that by the time they were 3 their language skills were more like 4 year olds. The reason is simple, just as children who learn to walk stop crawling, babies who sign stop signing after they can talk.
Signing with your Baby acts as a bridge that helps the transition from pre-speech to the spoken language. Baby signing teaches babies useful lessons about how language works which speeds up the process of learning to talk.
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What have been your experiences with speech development?
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