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Summary: A good guide
Review: ASL should be presented in true fashion to the children. Five of the pictures shown are not true ASL.
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Summary: What a disappointment!
Review: I expected the signs in this book to be more useful. There are only 10 signs in the whole book and most of them (hat, fish, telephone) are not even signs that I feel are important to learn. It was a total waste of money.
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Summary: intuitive
Review: I have the Baby Signs "text book" and love the concept, but didn't find my baby responding consistently to the methods (nor me using them consistently!) We read this book a couple of times, and now he knows whats on the next page, and has learned all the signs within a week. Something about this book makes sense.
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Summary: Love it!
Review: I realize that the signs aren't true ASL signs, but I find them easy to remember, and if my daughter wants to learn ASL later in life, I don't think learning some "wrong" signs will hinder her. In fact, many times the easiest way to teach them a sign is to assign a meaning to a gesture they already make.Anyway, my daughter loves the book. It took awhile for her to start signing... the first one she did was "dog" (pant, or go woof woof... she says "a da!" but da can mean any number of things). Then we visited a friend with a bird, and I did the flap arms sign again, and something within her CLICKED. She flapped her arms whenever she wanted to see the birds. The next day, she was doing the sign for "cat" and "fish". We watched Baby Einstein "Neighborhood Animals" video (the only one of the series that she shows any interest in), and when she saw a duck she went "quack quack" (sounds like guk guk guk) and started flapping her arms. She saw a bug that was flying and started flapping her arms as well. If she sees a picture of a fish, she starts smacking her lips. I showed her the "one fish, two fish" book and asked if she wanted to read it and she smacked her lips for "fish". We also use the back page as a "quiz" page, and I ask if she sees a dog (for example) and she'll point to the dog. Granted the book doesn't have signs for eat, drink, etc... but using this book as a foundation to teach the baby that he/she can assign a sign to objects and animals, it's easy to build on from there.
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Summary: Love it!
Review: I realize that the signs aren't true ASL signs, but I find them easy to remember, and if my daughter wants to learn ASL later in life, I don't think learning some "wrong" signs will hinder her. In fact, many times the easiest way to teach them a sign is to assign a meaning to a gesture they already make. Anyway, my daughter loves the book. It took awhile for her to start signing... the first one she did was "dog" (pant, or go woof woof... she says "a da!" but da can mean any number of things). Then we visited a friend with a bird, and I did the flap arms sign again, and something within her CLICKED. She flapped her arms whenever she wanted to see the birds. The next day, she was doing the sign for "cat" and "fish". We watched Baby Einstein "Neighborhood Animals" video (the only one of the series that she shows any interest in), and when she saw a duck she went "quack quack" (sounds like guk guk guk) and started flapping her arms. She saw a bug that was flying and started flapping her arms as well. If she sees a picture of a fish, she starts smacking her lips. I showed her the "one fish, two fish" book and asked if she wanted to read it and she smacked her lips for "fish". We also use the back page as a "quiz" page, and I ask if she sees a dog (for example) and she'll point to the dog. Granted the book doesn't have signs for eat, drink, etc... but using this book as a foundation to teach the baby that he/she can assign a sign to objects and animals, it's easy to build on from there.
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Summary: Not quite what I expected
Review: I was looking for a book with more useful everyday signs, like "hungry", "tired", etc. This book is good for identifying objects like "cat", "book", "hat", but not great for helping baby tell you what she needs.
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Summary: My baby loves it
Review: My baby loves looking through this book. He turns the pages studying the children and objects. I try to read to him all the time and this is the only book he likes to pick up on his own.
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Summary: My Daughter's Favorite
Review: My daughter just turned 15 months old and we got this book about 2 weeks ago. We have a few signs but this really opened up her options. Two days after we got this book we were in a store and I put a hat on her head. She looked up at me, pat her head and said the word hat. Then 2 days ago we saw some fish and she went up to the tank and puckered up, using the sign for fish. We had not used either of these signs until we got this book. She loves the pictures but I think her favorite thing is being able to "read" through signs all by herself. As she looks at the book now she does the signs. I can't wait to get more of these books for her. It is amazing fun to see her excitement as she learns to communicate. She is also learning to say some of words as she signs, which makes it easier for me to understand. Enjoy watching you child grow with this book!
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Summary: Looks simple, but results are outstanding
Review: My husband and I have been working on signs with our 14 month old son for about 10 months now. I'm not sure why (maybe the pictures in the book help him visualize another baby making the sign), but after purchasing this book and working on the signs in the book with him, he is picking it up so quickly. Within 2 days, he learned 4 new signs. I think that the book offers children learning signs another perspective besides mom & dad making a sign. I want to get some of the other baby signs books by this author to supplement what we have gotten from this book. Even though some of the words aren't those that are 'essential' (like thirsty, hungry, eat, milk, etc.) the book does help your baby and you begin to communicate in this way.
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Summary: Looks simple, but results are outstanding
Review: My husband and I have been working on signs with our 14 month old son for about 10 months now. I'm not sure why (maybe the pictures in the book help him visualize another baby making the sign), but after purchasing this book and working on the signs in the book with him, he is picking it up so quickly. Within 2 days, he learned 4 new signs. I think that the book offers children learning signs another perspective besides mom & dad making a sign. I want to get some of the other baby signs books by this author to supplement what we have gotten from this book. Even though some of the words aren't those that are 'essential' (like thirsty, hungry, eat, milk, etc.) the book does help your baby and you begin to communicate in this way.
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