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Think signing with your baby will delay speech development? Watch this video of a baby signing, speaking and reciting the alphabet. If you are like most, you will be astonished and amazed by this little one as she not only recites the alphabet, but also does her version of the manual alphabet as well.

Follow this link to learn more about Dr. Marilyn Daniels, prominent researcher in the field of sign language and non-verbal communication.

Teaching Infants to Use Sign Language, from Ohio State University.

ASL University Baby's Most Used Signs This page contains links to approximately one hundred of the most commonly used signs for babies and their parents.

ASL University is an online curriculum resource for American Sign Language students, instructors, interpreters, and parents of deaf children. Has a great on on-line dictionary.

Here is an interesting link to a blog by Scott Hanselman, a senior program manager for MicroSoft and the father of a 14-month old (at the time of the post) boy. He and his wife are using sign language with thier son, and the post is an update of their progress. The follow-up comments by subscribers to his post are also interesting, as many are by people who have also found the experience of signing with their children to be beneficial. The final comment in the post is from Rachel Coleman of SigningTime.

Many of us are familiar with Rachael, Leah and Alex of SigningTime. This link will take you to the Signing Time Foundation, where you can learn more about the work they are doing to help "enrich the lives of children of all abilities."

Lend a Hand: Communicating with Babies Through Sign Language by Barbara Wexler

Using Sign to Facilitate Oral Language: Building a Case with Parents by Shari Robertson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Using Sign Language and Fingerspelling to Facilitate Early Literacy by Marilyn Edmunds and Debra Krupinski

Sign Language: Enhancing Language Development in Infants and Toddlers by Heather Davidson

States That Recognize Amercian Sign Language as a Foreign Language

Our special thanks to Sara Bingham of WeeHands for bringing the articles, "Using Sign to Facilitate Oral Language" and "Using Sign Language and Fingerspelling to Facilitate Early Literacy" to our attention.

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