Celebrating National Baby Safety Month with the Baby Signs® Program Welcoming a new baby into your life is an exhilarating experience,...

How My Baby Signs® Journey Began "When I started the Baby Signs® program, I was in a dysfunctional marriage with three children under ...

The Benefits of the Baby Signs® Program for Military Families by   Linda Acredolo, Ph.D. Co-Founder, the Baby Signs® Program Althoug...

HELPING CHILDREN COPE WITH DISASTER Linda Acredolo, Ph.D. It seems whenever one turns on the TV these days there’s news of another ...

Children of all ages love songs and rhymes that include “finger play.” Why else would “Itsy Bitsy Spider” have maintained its popu...

We here at Baby Signs love holidays! One reason is that holidays seem inevitably to bring fun stories from parents about how th...

I remember once overhearing someone say, “Oh, signing---that’s just parlor tricks for babies. You say a word and they produce the ...

Even if you are bored with a particular book, reading the same storybook many times over is really good for children. In the case ...

I recently posted in this blog a description of an experimental study I did at UC Davis to see if toddlers would use a sign to indic...

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...

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 on a kick about grandparents, probably because I’ve been able to spend lots of time with my nearing 4-years-old grandchildren. O...

There's nothing more fascinating to me than the mind of a baby. That's one reason I find the ability of babies to communic...

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 recently ran into an old friend who was out shopping with her 20-month-old granddaughter. I was delighted to hear that little Lane...

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