Meet baby Theodora. At 18-months old Theodora knows signs that help her communicate needs and explore the world around her. Baby Theodora loves signing, with the help of her mom who is a counselor, Theodora is able to replace screaming, crying and tantrums with signing to help her parents, relatives and caregivers give her exactly what she wants and needs.
Baby Theodora’s mom uses songs, contextual signing and baby sign language flash cards to help her learn signs.
In addition to learning signs baby Theodora is also learning English as her second language.
We are so proud of Theodora’s mom Florence for her efforts in teaching her how to use baby sign language.
We asked Florence to share with us her baby sign language journey.
“I am a Counseling consultant developing a multiple intelligences playgroup programme, I find out that my clients are concerning when their baby start expressing themselves and how many words they can says. More and more babies and children are using crying, screaming, shouting to express their need instead of proper communication.
When I saw the the videos of Baby Sign Language website, I was impressed by how babies can communicate before they are able to talk!
So I decided to start out signing journey with my 18 months old daughter Theodora! She was able to speak short phrases and able to sing ABC, 5 little monkeys, fingers songs, twinkle twinkle little stars and head and shoulder knee and toes by herself clearly. At first, I am worrying she was a bit late to start as she was able to communicate already. To my surprise, she really loves the songs and video in the DVD, and was eager to initiate to listen and dance by taking out the DVD from the box, putting the CD into the player and press play all by herself!
Now she was able to sign and speak all the signs in the 4 DVD and CD sets! We planned to start the preschool programme soon.”
Florence
If you are ready to start teaching your baby how to sign you can join Theodora and begin using the beautiful resources available in the Ultra Baby Sign Language Kit. The kit contains 12 Resources inclusive of the most popular Baby Signing Time DVDs and CDs.
