Jessie's Reviews > Sign with Your Baby: How to Communicate with Infants Before They Can Speak

What I liked about the book:
1. Clear plan for teaching sign language to baby
2. ASL rather than modified or invented signs
3. Illustrated sign instructions


It gives you some ideas for what signs to introduce first and a few games to play to reinforce the signs.
I LOVED the opportune moments to introduce signs! Expressive gazes, mutual gazes, and pointed gazes. The examples were so clear that I could picture teaching my baby that way and it made so much more sense than how I'd previously thought of just showing my baby signs.

Not too much reading for the new busy parent, as only 50 pages are actual reading, and the rest is the sign dictionary for reference of signs commonly used by the little ones. I think the dictionary organization in this book is easier to find things than in Beyer's "Teach Your Baby to Sign" book, although her dictionary is much larger.

What I didn't like about book:
Perhaps because this book is older than some newer signing information... it contained a two ideas I disagree with:
1. Only sign the word, do not speak it at the same time - I think you should always say and sign together.
2. He listed a specific age (can't remember if it was 6 or 8 months?) to start signing, and I thought it was too old because I've seen some babies sign as early as 6 months. While your baby is never too old to start teaching signing, I also believe it is never too early to start, as long as you don't expect them to sign back earlier just because you started earlier.