Baby Sign Language Basics by Monta Z Briant

Baby Sign Language Basics by Monta Z Briant

Now includes streaming video, additional tips, advice, and updated resources

Since 2004, Baby Sign Language Basics has introduced hundreds of thousands of parents and caregivers around the globe to the miracle of signing with their babies--and left them wanting more

Now, in this newly expanded edition, Monta Z. Briant provides more than 300 American Sign Language (ASL) signs, illustrated with the same clear, easy-to-understand photos and descriptions. Baby-specific signing techniques, songs, and games are also included to make learning fun and to quickly open up two-way communication. Parents will meet real signing families and learn how to make sign language a part of their everyday interactions with their children. Also included is a video signing dictionary featuring all the signs from the book. Just point and click, and see the sign you want to learn come alive

This is a must-have for all parents, grandparents, and anyone else who spends time with preverbal children. After all, what parent or caregiver doesn't want to know what their baby is trying to tell them?

Monta Briant and her husband, Paul, started signing with their six-month-old daughter, Sirena. Hundreds more signs were finally memorized by the entire family. Monta, a former professional yacht captain, decided to start Baby Sign Language Workshops in 2001 in order to make a permanent job transition that would allow her to be at home with her daughter. The San Diego Union-Tribune and Fox 6 News featured him as an passionate speaker and self-proclaimed EM.