
We started teaching Jayden how to sign when he was around 7 months old. My aunt knows sign language and taught me everything I know how to sign. So with Jayden I wanted to start out with signs he could learn while he was eating. We started with "more". Before every bite of food I would say, "Jayden, do you want more?" And I would sign more and then grab his hands and show him how to sign it. It was a lot of work at first and I felt really silly since he never would do it himself. It took about 2 or 3 months by the time he finally got the hang out of. We moved on to "please, all done, thank you and eat" all of these he learned by 12 months. I remember at his one year appointment the doctor said he should know 5 words (verbally) Jayden knew 6 signs and 5 verbal words... interesting, eh?
By 15 months his vocabulary grew so much I could hardly believe it! We started showing him one of the "Your Baby Can Read" DVDs and he started repeating those words and learning how to do commands, like open your mouth or close your eyes, etc. I was so impressed. Around that same time my mom gave him a book for Christmas that had lots of new signs he didn't know, so we continued learning new signs together.
Back to the Baby Einstein DVD... it was about 3 weeks ago I realized Jayden learned probably 7 new signs by just watching the video. I hadn't been teaching them to him! We watch this DVD everyday.. if not twice a day. But it's paying off. I love being able to communicate with him through sign. I also like the way baby Einstein teaches the signs. The screen is divided into 3 sections; the bottom section is the written word, the right side is a picture of the word and the left side is a clip of someone signing the word. I feel like not only is Jayden learning how to sign the words but he's learning how to recognize what the written word looks like.
I'd really like to take a class and learn more signs that I can teach him and Gabri.
So pretty much my kid is a genius... just thought I'd take the time to write this blog to brag about how proud I am of him! :)
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