Imagine how frustrating it would be if you were unable to talk and had no way to express your needs, fears, and thoughts about the world. You would feel as if you were locked in solitary confinement. Babies can feel this same.
Way, which is why they so frequently throw tantrums and use whatever means they have—especially- pointing and crying—to try to convey what they are thinking and wanting. Daily life with a preverbal baby tests everyone's patience, but more than two decades of research have consistently shown us that the Baby Signs program can
Baby Signs program make bringing up baby an easier and more fun experience.
What's more, our research has proven that signing is actually good for babies. In a large-scale study funded by the National Institutes of Health, we observed 103 families with eleven-month-old babies for two years. One-third of these families were encouraged to use signs; the other two-thirds were not. Our plan was to compare the groups periodically using standardized verbal language and cognitive tests to see whether the Baby Signs experience was having any significant effects—good, bad, or indifferent.
So what did we find? In a nutshell, the signing babies outperformed the other
babies in comparison after comparison.
They scored higher in intelligence tests, understood more words, had larger vocabularies, and engaged in more sophisticated platy.
