Do you have a baby or toddler who you are trying to teach sign, perhaps because of a hearing or speech impairment, or to support communication with a family member or friend? Or, perhaps, you are simply planning on using ?baby sign? to improve communication with your pre-verbal child.
This system works as the child is highly ?motivated? to sign. . . they want more bread.
Once you have mastered your starter set of only a few signs pick 1 topic, eg clothing, and try to introduce those signs.
Where do you start?
Start with only 1 or two signs that are highly motivational to the child and create high motivation settings to start. For example; take a bag of bread to feed the ducks. Give the child a small amount of bread. When they gesture/grunt etc for more; say and sign ?more? and then give them some more bread. The 2nd time do the same but this time use your hand to help the child sign ?more?. Gradually build up from there so that you end expecting the sign, before bread is supplied. However do not expect the signing to be performed perfectly and continue to ?show? the sign on your body and correct the sign on theirs if wrong.This system works as the child is highly ?motivated? to sign. . . they want more bread.
Once you have mastered your starter set of only a few signs pick 1 topic, eg clothing, and try to introduce those signs.
