Baby Sign Language
Jump-Start Your Child's Verbal Skills!

 Baby Sign Language gives children the opportunity to communicate long before they can verbalize their wants and needs.

Research studies show that signing with babies accelerates language acquisition, reduces frustration, enhances a child's self-esteem, and deepens the bond between parent and child.

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Step 1
Introductory Workshop

 This workshop introduces more than 20 signs that are based on American Sign Language (ASL). It is designed for expectant parents and parents with babies ranging in age from birth to 18 months. Expectant parents are welcome too! You will learn about the latest research and all the tools to teach your baby to sign. Fun activities and songs will show you how easy it can be to integrate simple signs into your everyday routine to jump-start your child’s verbal skills.

FAQs like, "When can you start signing with your baby?"

Classes are offered live online and also at hospitals and parent resource centers in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Click for our prerecorded Introductory Workshop

Click to host a class at your home for your friends

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Step 2
Playgroup Series
Red   Yellow   Blue

We encourage you to follow this Introductory Workshop with a series. Our 6-week series is a fun opportunity for you to build your signing vocabulary with themes like mealtime, animals, colors, family, bedtime, and more! We've split 18 sessions into three different six-day series named after the primary colors: Red, Yellow, and Blue. No need to take them in order. Just dive in and start learning now. Each series includes the essential basic starter signs and vary in the more advanced vocabulary. Shortly after your first six-day series you’ll be thrilled to see your baby start to sign. That’s the time to enroll in the next series to increase your baby’s vocabulary and your own signing confidence!

Click for in person Bay Area class locations

Click for a Live Online Series with author, Bill White

Click to host a class at your home for your friends

Our Introductory Workshop is recommended prior to taking a playgroup series unless you are already familiar with American Sign Language (ASL). 

New 2020 Themes ~ RED, YELLOW, BLUE
In the past we've offered two Playgroup Series named Boom and Zoom. Parents have been asking us to add a third series for years. So, ....drum roll.... In 2020 we are thrilled to announce that we are expanding our program and offering three different playgroup series.

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3 Playgroup Themes

PARDON OUR DUST DURING CONSTRUCTION
We are having a blast developing the new sessions. Please bear with us as the vocabulary and themes are subject to change while we put the finishing touches on the new 2020 lesson plans.

RED SERIES  (Similar to our old Boom Series)
Day #1 Magic 7* Signs plus Mealtime Red
Day #2 Colors and Clothing
Day #3 Animals on the Farm
Day #4 Bathtime Signs
Day #5 Weather Signs
Day #6 Family Signs and Series Review

YELLOW SERIES
Day #1 Magic 7* Signs plus Mealtime Yellow
Day #2 Colors and Garden Critters
Day #3 Animals in the Zoo
Day #4 Safety and Senses
Day #5 Feelings and Emotions
Day #6 Opposites and Series Review

BLUE SERIES  (Similar to our old Zoom Series)
Day #1 Magic 7* Signs plus Mealtime Blue
Day #2 Ocean Animals
Day #3 Things that go Zoom
Day #4 Bedtime Signs
Day #5 Playtime and Manners
Day #6 Woodland Animals and Series Review

* Magic 7 signs are the basic starter signs

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FAQs

Which Playgroup comes first?

Do I need to take all three Playgroup Series?

Once I finish all the playgroup sessions may I re-take them?

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FIND A CLASS IN YOUR AREA

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Testimonials

"Lorelei has so many signs now it's hard to keep track! Thanks so much for introducing us to this wonderful way to communicate with our daughter."   Click to read hundreds more testimonial stories and praise from our students that have completed our program.

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Host Your Own Class and Earn a Free Registration!

Host your own classes at your home, school, or your local mothers club (currently available in the San Francisco Bay Area). Your family's registration is free when you enroll six other families in a playgroup series. If you are hosting an Introductory Workshop you only need four other families to enroll to to earn your free registration!*.  We’ll work around your schedule.  Click here for more information, pricing, and to request a home class.
*Class size requirements may be larger for certain geographical areas.

FAQs

BENEFITS OF SIGNING WITH BABIES