Sign of the Week - POTTY

Shake "T" hand back and forth (toilet). This sign is great for helping your child communicate the need to go potty even before they speak!
Click on picture to download this poster.

Sign Request - FARM

We had a sign request for FARM at Parent Workshop yesterday evening. Hold your hand like you are showing the number five. Place your thumb against the side of your chin and drag your thumb across your chin with your hand at right angles to your chin.

Follow this link to see a video of this sign on ASL-Pro. http://www.aslpro.com/main/f/farm.swf

Sign Request - PACIFIER

The sign for BINKY or PACIFIER was requested today. Here's a little video on how to sign PACIFIER. You put your thumb and index finger up to mouth like you are holding a pacifier and then you make a sucking motion like you are sucking on the pacifier.

Sign of the Week - BUTTERFLY

I love doing this sign! Just look at the palms of your hands, cross them over to the opposite side of your body, and link your thumbs together. Now make that butterfly fly! Your baby might make the sign with palms facing outward as this is much easier for babies. That's O.K., just keep modeling the sign the correct way.

Click on the picture for the downloadable poster for this sign!

Sign of the Week: CARROT

Make a fist and pretend to chomp a carrot.

Click on picture below to download free poster for this sign!

New Class! Look at Me, Look at You!

Did you know that vision is, in part, a learned behavior and not the automatic ability that most of us always assumed it to be? Like learning to grasp or crawl, controlling the muscles in the eyes so that they move together or focus appropriately takes practice. This class is designed to introduce parents and babies birth to 6 months old to fun activities that promote healthy vision development.

Come SEE what it is all about Monday September 20th at 6:00 to 7:00 pm! Please pre-register A.S.A.P. for this class at Our Little World.

Sign Requests - Avocado and Mango

Sign requests for today at Baby Play and Sign were for avacado and mango. Unfortunately, both of these are fingerspelled. If you want to make up an easy sign for your baby, go ahead and do so. What you could try is using the first letter of the fruit rotated against your cheek as in the manner of the sign for FRUIT . The sign for fruit is a "f" hand shape rotated against the side of your chin, so it would be an A for avocado, and an M for mango. Click on letters/words to see the signs. If something else makes more sense for your particular situation, for example if you cut up avacados a certain way, then you can use that in the sign. I slice an avacado lengthwise, and then twist the two halves to get them apart, so what I would use for my sign would be a twisting motion with my two A hands against each other, just like what I do with the avocado. Remember, our goal is communication, and little hands are going to have a really hard time fingerspelling these words!