Yea, I saw a programme on it on a channel called babychannel! Lol!!
Basically, it follows the british sign language, just some signs are modifies when they are too difficult for a baby to reproduce, and you link each sign to an object or a notion, so for eg, when you ask your baby if they want milk, you do the sign for milk at the same time (sign is you pretend to squeeze something with one hand, as if you were milking a cow!
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They showed a baby boy do it, and it was really nice to see!Impressive!! They say to start when baby is 6month old, and be patient as not every child will respond quickly to it, but eventually they will reproduce the signs, and that is before they actually speak.
The parents in the programme explained that their son now recognises 6 different signs, and the first one he reproduced was the sign for "more", which is great coz it's not an object, but a notion, so it showed how well he had understood what "more" meant!
Sarah, if you are interested, maybe you should ask your HV as there might be some courses or meetings in your area.
Since I have seen this programme, I have started myself, but have not studied the bristish signs language, so I am just creating my own signs.
They say it is really helpful for babies that you want to become bilingual, and we are gonna try for Maheen to be at least trilingual (French, Urdu and English!), so I'll go for whatever can help her!
Hope this helps a bit,
And sorry if my explainations are a bit blurry, my mind is at the moment...don't know why...Maheen is sleeping better so me as well, but maybe this is why! My body is not used to sleep anymore!!!
Mel xx
