If you’d like to have a conversation with a baby – consider using your hands...
New research has found that hearing children who learn sign language in infancy scored as much as 12 points higher on IQ tests. The concept of infant sign language seemed logical to Joseph Garcia, author of “Sign With Your Baby.” Through his work with the deaf, he noticed that hearing children of deaf parents could communicate much sooner than other babies – some as young as six weeks.
Now it seems that teaching sign language to babies is all the rage. It’s very popular among the Hollywood parent crowd and books and videos on teaching baby sign-language are seeing a real spike in sales.
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