Babies are using their hands to communicate before they can actually talk. That appears to be a trend at many daycare centers ...

GRAND FORKS - Before she could talk, Maya Bodin had a vocabulary of eight words - words she "spoke" with her hands in sign language. When she was about 7 months old, her mother, Colleen Bodin, of ...

WHATCOM COUNTY - By teaching babies a second language, parents are learning how to communicate before their babies can even speak. They are doing it through a program that's sweeping the county, ...

Providing babies with tools to help grown-ups understand what they want also boosts their self-confidence. Parents don't have to be fluent in sign language; most of the basic signs are iconic, meaning ...

WESTMINSTER, Colo. — A Westminster daycare is teaching American Sign Language to babies as young as 6 months old. "Children always want to learn something new, and we give them the opportunity to do ...

*** beautiful relationship between *** granddaughter and her grandparents. She always lights up whenever she watches them signing to her. She gets really excited before she can talk and walk. Baby.

By 8-12 months, many babies can start using simple gestures like pointing or signing “more.” But even before that, you’re ...

Long before my wife Claudia and I had our son, Rupert, 16 months ago, we’d already discussed the importance of bringing him up with both speech and sign language from birth (should he be born hearing) ...

LA CRESCENT, Minn. - When Austin King-Henke wants more, all he has to do is ask - something he has been able to do since before he could talk. When Kaj King-Henke, Austin's brother, is finished at the ...

The idea of babies and toddlers talking and reading can seem incredible, but language and literacy skills get an early boost when adults introduce simple sign language to little ones. Learning to Read ...

While it isn’t surprising that infants and children love to look at people’s movements and faces, recent research from Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf ...