Learn When to Start Baby Sign Language

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Nicki with baby signs on behalf of Expert Village. And in this clip we'll talk about when to get started signing with your baby. Now that you've heard about some of the benefits and you may be wondering how hard it is? Well I'm here to tell you it's not hard at all. When would you get started? Well you can start anytime at birth, in fact you start talking to your baby at birth and you don't expect them to talk back, that same way you can start signing to your child. But you at least want to get started by the time your child is 8 or 9 months old. Because that way they already made the understanding of words, they just can't tell you back what it is that they want to tell you. Some of the easy signs to get started with are the mealtime signs. I've already shown you the sign for eat, or Bebo did. Eat is one easy sign to show you. You can start with mealtime as a time to get started with signing with your baby and then you can also show them the sign milk. That's one of the things that you can sign with your baby. If you have missed the boat, you feel like oh my gosh, 8 or 9 months, my baby is already older than that, 12 months old or older, don't worry you can actually start anytime as long as your baby isn't actually speaking to you quiet clearly yet or they say some words and they have many more words they want to say to you, anytime is a good time to get started but it's never too late."