Sign with Your Baby Complete Learning Kit will enable you to communicate at new levels with your baby long before she can speak. This comprehensive package of book, video, and reference guide shows how simple gestures can communicate ideas like "I'm hungry" or "help me." Caregivers grasp baby's needs immediately rather than learn through trial and error. Dr. Joseph Garcia has designed the system so it's not necessary to learn an entire new language, although it also provides a terrific start in American Sign Language for a hearing-impaired child. A fascinating introduction delves into the development of language in children and uses informative line drawings to demonstrate over 150 hand signs for all kinds of actions and nouns. The accompanying video provides practical tips for getting started, some insight into the hows and whys of this method from Dr. Burton White (director of the Center for Parent Education), and inspiring sights of young babies signing effectively with their caregivers. The laminated quick-reference guide lists some of the most common words in any parent's day: cookie, no, and up are but a few. Garcia's clear, concise methods make learning a breeze, and caregivers gain outstanding new abilities to give the best possible care for the babies entrusted to them. --Jill Lightner


From Parents' Choice®
Parents looking for a new way to communicate and bond with their older infant and/or toddler now have one-this video, book and chart that teach elementary signing. Eye contact, interaction and language development all get a boost from the kit, which is aimed at ages 7 months to 3 years. Plus, with a few of the simple signs in hand, the little ones can actually help mom and dad figure out what they need. (Eat? Up? More?) Parents who stick with it may also see a broader social advantage: bridging that communication barrier between deaf and hearing people of all ages. A 1999 Parents' Choice® Recommendation. (Parents' Choice®).


Book Description
The Complete Learning Kit - includes the SIGN with your BABY Book, Training Video, and Quick Reference Guide (total of 3 component products) bundled together in one box.


From the Publisher
Parents will be amazed when their baby signs! For the first time babies can clearly communicate their needs, wants and desires up to a full year before they can speak. Through the use of Joseph Garcia's program on using American Sign Language (ASL) vocabulary, adults and children as young as 6-8 months old are able to incorporate signing into their daily activities as a means of communicating long before verbal speech. Experience the incredible benefits of teaching your infants and young children communication using the SIGN with your BABY program.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

For parents wanting clear communication with their infants before they can speak, Joseph Garcia's SIGN with your BABY™ Complete Learning Kit provides an innovative and simple method based on American Sign Language signs. With its Book, 60-minute Training Video, and Quick Reference Guide, this award-winning kit offers a comprehensive educational package that helps parents to reduce frustration while strengthening the parent/infant bond.

In his book, Joseph Garcia uses anecdotes, practical guidelines and humor to explain the benefits and method for taking advantage of this unique form of early communication. He helps you recognize when your child is receptive to learning. He also recommends which signs to teach first and shares ideas for games that can be fun and useful when introducing new signs. The Book is also a useful reference with 145 clearly illustrated ASL signs, enabling you to choose and teach the signs that will be most beneficial to you and your child. The Training Video - winner of several national awards - includes advice from experts and parents who have used Joseph's method, inspirational images of signing babies, and demonstration of each of the signs from the book. The Quick Reference Guide offers 54 illustrations at a glance to help babysitters, grandparents and other caregivers recognize and practice the signs your baby knows.

This method does not require learning an entire language. Rather, Mr. Garcia teaches how using some simple gestures can make a big difference in empowering and meeting the needs of your baby. This program has been widely featured in the national media and has been honored with a Parents' Choice Award and The National Parenting Center's Seal of Approval.

SYNOPSIS

This book teaches hearing parents how to use simple sign language gestures to communicate with their hearing infants before their infants can speak. Joseph Garcia uses anecdotes, practical guidelines and humor to explain the benefits and method for taking advantage of this unique form of early communication. He will help you recognize when your child is receptive to learning. He recommends which signs to teach first and shares ideas for games that can be fun and useful when introducing new signs. The book is also a useful reference with 145 clearly illustrated signs, enabling you to choose and teach the signs that will be most beneficial to you and your child. This book is also included in the Sign with your Baby Complete Learning Kit - which is comprised of the book, 60 minute training video and quick reference guide.

About the Author:

Joseph Garcia, born in1949, is a communications specialist who has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at many colleges and universities in the Northwestern United States. During the last 20 years, Joseph was principal investigator for 109 private research grants. He has developed teaching and training materials for youth-related projects and the health care industry. He was appointed to and served two years on the Alaska Governor's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped. Joseph was awarded the Bishop Foundation Youth Leader of the Year Award, and was also nominated by the Washington State Service Corps for the Temple Award for Creative Altruism from the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

I don't do recommendations very readily but in this situation I am totally comfortable about recommending the work of Joseph Garcia. I have followed it for years and recommend it to our parents who use it with great success. He obviously a pioneer, totally dedicated.  — (Dr. Burton White, Director of the Center for Parent Education and author of The First Three Years of Life and Raising a Happy Unspoiled Child)