Interactive board books designed for parents and babies feature a unique approach to teaching sign language. Each page highlights a specific word, accompanied by photographs of an adult and a baby demonstrating the sign, making it easier for parents to recognize. Additionally, illustrations of the objects are included, along with touch-and-feel elements, enhancing sensory engagement. This innovative format combines visual learning with tactile experiences, fostering communication skills from an early age.
Michelle Anthony Libri
Michelle Anthony è una ricercatrice e educatrice nello sviluppo infantile. È co-fondatrice di Wide-Eyed Learning, che insegna a genitori ed educatori l'approccio Signing Smart per utilizzare i segni ASL con neonati e bambini piccoli udenti. Il suo lavoro si concentra sullo sviluppo precoce e sulla comunicazione. L'autrice esplora come le prime interazioni e i metodi di apprendimento influenzano la crescita cognitiva ed emotiva dei bambini.


A Fun, Easy Way to Talk with Your BabyBabies can communicate with their hands long before they can speak. Using American Sign Language (ASL), Dr. Michelle Anthony and Dr. Reyna Lindert have created the simple and successful Signing Smart system to teach parents how to integrate signing into everyday life with their hearing children. Through the more than seventy activities presented in this book, parents will learn the tools and strategies they need to understand how to introduce signing and build their child's sign and word vocabulary.Using ASL signs and Signing Smart with hearing infants and toddlers has many benefits, including:-reducing frustration and tantrums-allowing children to express what they need or want-facilitating speaking-fostering communication and promoting learningBy using these practical, easy-to-learn methods, parents and babies-from as young as five months old to preschool age-can "converse" through signs at mealtime, bath time, playtime, or anytime.Featuring the Signing Smart Illustrated Dictionary, with 130 signs.