One of the best gifts a professor can receive is when a student decides to follow in his or her footsteps. I was incredibly luck...

A new research study from Stanford University has revealed that low-income children have already fallen significantly behind in ver...

Although we frequently recommend playing make-believe with your child because it nurtures vocabulary development and conversation sk...

Ask a parent what signs they are most anxious for their children to learn and the answer is likely to be EAT, DRINK, MORE, and ...

baby sign language Just last week in this blog I took a detour from talking about to discuss how important pretend play is to chil...

One of our Baby Signs® Instructors called my attention last week to an article by a Speech Pathologist who was questioning our res...

One of the most frequent questions our network of Baby Signs® Instructors hear when they give their Parent Workshops and Sign, Say ...

Do you remember how, once you were expecting a baby, you began to see pregnant women everywhere? Or, having finally decided to buy a...

One of the most creative ways we use language is to point out similarities between things, similarities that strike us as especially...

There’s no doubt that a single sign—such as MORE , for example—conveys important information. But there’s also no denying that the ...

I’m currently in the midst of preparing for a 2-day, in-person training in Denver on June 24-25 . I love these trainings! It’s my ...

Parents and babies love the Baby Signs® Program because it reduces frustration and makes being together even more fun. But speech i...

By far the most frequently voiced concern about encouraging babies to use signs to communicate before they can talk is that doing s...

I spent last Tuesday with my twin, almost 4-year-old grandchildren—Nate and Olivia—because they were home sick from preschool. Bot...

One of the most frequent questions I get is the following: “My baby is exposed to two languages at home. Won’t adding the Baby Si...

In this post I’m going to be bringing together a number of different themes (and not signing with babies , for a change) that are sa...

Before I retired from UC Davis, I was lucky enough to have a graduate student who fell in love with the research Dr. Susan Goodwyn a...

In last week’s blog, I talked about how signing spurs language development by increasing a baby’s enjoyment of books. Part of the ...

By far the most frequently voiced concern about encouraging babies to use signs to communicate before they can talk is that doing so wil...

Dear Readers, Below you will find a recent article from the UK which highlights the advantages that signing has for infants from low-income ...