Parent Workshop
This 90-minute one-time introductory workshop teaches everything you need to know to get started with the Baby Signs Program. You will learn:
- how to begin signing with your baby
- effective ways to begin teaching signs at home
- easy ways to use signs in daily routines
- what to expect as your baby transitions from signs to speech
Perfect for expectant parents, babywearing parents with newborns, and parents with children ages birth to 2 years at home. Workshop INCLUDES $40 Starter Kit containing:
- Baby Signs Favorites DVD: This full-length DVD for babies teaches six easy starter signs: Dog, Cat, Book, Hat, Duck and All Done.
- Parent DVD: with introduction from the authors and Video Dictionary with real-life demonstrations of 100 signs.
- Parent Guide: This 80-page guide provides step-by-step directions for signing families.
- Signs at a Glance Flip Guide: Quickly find a sign with this unique flip guide. Includes 86 sign illustrations and 14 useful signing tips.
- 4 Chunky Board Books: Four 4x4" board books, 14-pages each, teach the following signs:
My Mealtime Signs (Eat, Drink, More, Milk, Cereal, Bib, All Done)
My Bedtime Signs (Stars, Moon, Book, Light, Sleep, Love)
My Bath Time Signs (Bath, Bubbles, Water, Toothbrush, Frog, Duck)
My Pets Signs (Cat, Dog, Bird, Bunny, Fish, Turtle)
Group Class............................................................................................................................$60
Join us at a studio for a group class. Take advantage of the great studio space, get connected to the community and resources, and meet other new families.
Private Group Class.....................................................................................................$60/Baby
If you have a group of 3-10 families you could have a class of your own! Just imagine all the benefits of the Baby Signs Parent Workshop with your friends! You can have a private group class in your own home or at the studio. Just enroll through our enrollment page and in the Additional Comments box, type the last name of the hosting member of your group.
Private Instruction....................................................................................................$100/Baby
We offer private classes in which I come to your home and provide private Baby Signs instruction for your family. Just imagine all the benefits of the Parent Workshop in the safety and comfort of your own home and the convenience of your schedule! Price of class is reduced to only $90 if you live inside the Poway Unified District!
Sign, Say & Play Class
This 6-week play class for parents and their babies:
- highlights signs that are most important in the lives of babies
- teaches signing through fun games with BeeBo the Baby Signs Bear
- provides signing practice through delightful Baby Signs songs
- introduces play activities that reinforce important language, cognitive and social-emotional skills
- brings families together to share their signing experiences
Designed for parents and children ages 6 months to 2 years. Class INCLUDES $70 Sign, Say & Play Kit!
Group Class.........................................................................................................................$150
Join us at a studio for a group class. Take advantage of the great studio space, get connected to the community and resources, and meet other new families.
Private Group Class..................................................................................................$150/Baby
If you have a group of 3-10 families you could have a class of your own! Just imagine all the benefits of Baby Signs Sign, Say & Play with your friends! You can have a private group class in your own home or at the studio. Just enroll through our enrollment page and in the Additional Comments box, type the last name of the hosting member of your group.
Private Instruction......................................................................................$275 or $250/Baby
We offer private classes in which I come to your home and provide private Baby Signs instruction for your family. Just imagine all the benefits of the Sign, Say, & Play in the safety and comfort of your own home and the convenience of your schedule! Price of class is reduced to only $250 for 5 sessions if you live inside the Poway Unified District!
Early Childhood Education Training
Baby Signs offers high-quality training options specifically designed to teach child development professionals everything they need to know to start signing right away. This training is designed to provide an informative and enjoyable training with games, songs, and activities liberally sprinkled throughout to keep teachers engaged and excited as they learn.
Families who use the Baby Signs® Program know first hand that there are many benefits to using signs with their babies. Using the Baby Signs® Program:
- Reduces tears, tantrums and frustration
- Allows babies to share their worlds
- Increases respect for babies
- Makes learning to talk easier
- Boosts self-esteem and self-confidence
- Stimulates intellectual development
- Strengthens parent-child bond
Over two decades of Baby Signs® research has shown that these proven benefits affect different areas of a child's development. Using the Baby Signs® Program stimulates:
- Social-Emotional Development
- Language Development
- Cognitive Development
The hard facts- straight from the research:
- At 24 months, Baby Signs babies were talking more like 27 or 28 month olds. This represents a three-month advantage over the non-Baby Signs babies. In addition, the 24 month old Baby Signs babies were putting together significantly longer sentences.
- At 36 months, Baby Signs babies were talking like 47 month olds, putting them almost a full year ahead of their average age-mates.
- Eight year olds who had been Baby Signs babies scored an average of 12 points higher in IQ than their non-signing peers.
Over two decades of academic research by Drs. Acredolo and Goodwyn, much of it funded by the National Institutes of Health, has shown that using the Baby Signs® Program provides many benefits for children and their parents. Using the Baby Signs® Program . . .
Using the Baby Signs® Program reduces tears, tantrums and frustration.
By the time babies are 9 to 10 months old, they are quite capable of knowing what it is they need or want. What they don't know is how to tell us with words-which leads directly to frustration for baby and parent alike. All this changes when a baby is able to use signs. With signs like "eat," "drink," "hot" and "cold," literally at their fingertips, babies can make their needs known quickly and quietly without becoming frustrated and resorting to tantrums and tears. No wonder the answer we most frequently get from parents when we ask how using the Baby Signs® Program has changed daily life is decreased frustration!
Using the Baby Signs® Program makes learning to talk easier.
Some parents may worry that encouraging their child to use signs might slow down learning to talk. Actually, the opposite is true! Drs. Acredolo and Goodwyn's federally funded research showed that using the Baby Signs® Program actually helps babies learn to talk. They found that 2-year-old Baby Signers had significantly larger verbal vocabularies than their non-signing peers. And by the time they were three years old, the Baby Signers language skills were more like that of 4 years old. Babies gain a lot of language knowledge when they are able to actively engage in communication with signs-knowledge that lays a good foundation for learning to talk. And, just as a child who learns to crawl is more, rather than less, motivated to learn to walk, so also a child who learns to sign is more, rather than less, motivated to learn to talk!
Using the Baby Signs® Program boosts self-esteem and self-confidence.
What good self-esteem boils down to for any of us is the sense that we are perceived as both competent and valued in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. And that's just what the ability to use signs gives to babies. Because they can communicate effectively with their caregivers, and because their caregivers respond so positively to these communications, Baby Signs® babies develop a sense of pride in their accomplishments that lays a solid foundation for the development of their self-esteem and self-confidence.
Using the Baby Signs® Program stimulates intellectual development.
Children who had participated in Drs. Acredolo and Goodwyn's study were revisited again when they were 8 years old. Each child was assessed using the WISC-III, a typical IQ test for children. The results were very impressive. After controlling for family income, parents' education and a number of other factors know to influence IQ, children who had signed as babies had significantly higher IQs (an average of 114) than the children who had not signed (an average of 102). That's a full 12 points higher!
Using the Baby Signs® Program strengthens the parent-child bond.
Because Baby Signs® babies are able to communicate effectively with their caregivers, the number of positive interactions goes up and the number of negative interactions goes down. In other words, when a baby and parent can truly understand each other and share what's on their minds, they feel more connected to one another.With signs, even very young children can "tell" their caregivers they would like some milk, they saw an airplane or they heard a dog barking. They can let their caregivers know whether they are happy, sad or even afraid. Life with a Baby Signs® baby becomes a shared life – and with greater sharing comes a stronger, sweeter parent-child bond.
Cancellation Policy: Life happens and as a parent your baby and family should always be the priority. If for any reason you find that you cannot make it to the Workshop, I trust that you are doing what's in the best interest of your family. You will not be responsible for paying the workshop fee. HOWEVER, you will be responsible for purchasing your Kit, as one will be ordered specifically for you. This way, even if you are unable to attend the workshop due to unforeseen circumstances, you can still benefit from all the instructional materials in the kit.
