Signing Stars | Baby Sign Language

We’re a Finalist

Sonya — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:42:07 +0000

Signing Stars are a finalists in the AusMumprenuer Awards – Vote for us!

The 2011 Bio-Oil AusMumpreneur Awards presented by connect2mums celebrate and recognize Mums in business achieving outstanding success in areas such as business, product development, services and innovation in businesses from Australia and New Zealand.

Baby Sign Language Kit

Sonya — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:14:19 +0000

Our Auslan Baby Sign Language Learning Kit has everything you need to get started with baby sign!

An essential for every family learning baby sign language. Featuring five of our most popular products and over 250 signs.

Signing Stars Baby Sign Language on the Today Show

Sonya — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 04:45:07 +0000

View our Today Show appearance.

Imagine your baby telling you exactly what they want way before they start crying, and long before they can talk.

Baby sign language really works and it’s so easy to do! See recent videos of baby sign language in action.

Signing Stars have developed a range of resources to help you enhance communication with your baby. All of our products are designed by Australian Mums and use AUSLAN signs.

Update on Milly and Aiden

Sonya — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 03:20:55 +0000

Well Milly is 11months now and has picked up her signing pretty well. She now has a handful of signs that she uses with us! It is truly amazing to see first hand in your own baby. Daddy is pretty astounded too and is really getting into it once he saw a few successes!

Olivia signed back!!

Sonya — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 03:20:55 +0000

We were away at Batemans Bay for Easter long weekend. We are all down the beach and there was a group of sea gulls, and i as signing ‘bird’ to her as Ava was chasing them. olivia thought Ava was very funny chasing the birds. Then all of a sudden olivia signed back to me,and it was not my imagination, my husband saw it too. Then that night at the dinner table she signed ‘eat’. Both in the one day. Needless to say i was very excited and a very proud mum that day.

Olivia’s Diary update

Sonya — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 03:07:33 +0000

Well what can I say, not much progress has been made with Olivia’s baby signing, but that’s ok she is not going to get it straight away. She loves waving bye bye to Daddy when he leaves for work and the girls at day care where she goes tell me she waves to everyone. So I can at least tell she can do that baby sign! She also thinks she is very clever when she claps her hands
I am changing my approach with teaching her to Baby Sign Language, because she is such a laid back, HAPPY baby. She does not need Baby Signing for communicating. What she wants as she just goes with the flow. So I am trying the ‘motivational’ approach. So now I am trying to teach her signs for toys that she wants. For example she has ‘Sophie’ a giraffe that she loves, so now when she wants ‘Sophie’ I sign giraffe. Also whenever I turn a light on she can see I sign light and when we see a bird I sign bird just to name a few. I am hoping the change to ‘motivational’ signing will help kick start her along. There are no hard and fast rules to Baby Signing; I think trial and error is the key. See what is best for you and your! And to have fun in the process!!!
On the other hand, Ava my oldest loves learning new signs. With the signs she already knows I can do the sign with out talking and she knows what I am saying. For example the other day she was taking food from a table that was not hers and I saw her doing it and I signed ‘no’ to her, she just looked at me I kept signing no and she eventually took her hand away. She was such a good girl.
She knows a lot of signs already. We eventually might be able to have secret mummy, daughter conversations with out daddy knowing!!
I have also noticed her speech is a lot clearer and I believe signing has helped her with this, when she is talking to me she will sign as well if she knows the sign for the word she is saying.
We went to our first baby signing class last week with ‘Tiny Hands Talk’ and Ava loved it. We had a lot of fun!!

Olivia’s first sign?

Sonya — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 03:07:33 +0000

Hi,
My name is Kylie

Update on Milly and Aiden

Sonya — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:16:00 +0000

Well, Milly is 11months now and has taken to baby sign pretty well. She now has a handful of signs that she uses to comunicate with us. Aiden(3) has been a wonderful teacher and as Milly just adores anything that her brother shows her, this has really helped her learning. It is truly amazing to experience it first hand with your own child! Daddy is even getting into it once he witnessed those first few successes!

Thought you might enjoy seeing them in action….

Here is a snippet of Milly telling us she has ‘finished’ her dinner…

And Aiden teaching Milly the sign for ‘milk’…

I hope your signing is going well….

Amanda

Signing with Milly…

Sonya — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 08:22:00 +0000

Well, I have begun signing with my 6month old, Milly!

Aiden(my 3 year old) has been studying the signs to help me teach Milly baby sign…

Aiden and I have been showing Milly the sign for ‘milk’ for a few weeks now…

She is definately now recognising the sign as she goes bananas when we do it! This was a good one to start with with her as she LOVES her milk!

Now we just keep persevering and wait for her to sign back….will keep you informed…

Amanda

Harri’s first Sign!

Sonya — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:09:00 +0000

Wow, how exciting to see my six and a half month old son Harri signing! I started doing a few signs with him from about four months. At first I found it hard to keep his attention so I backed off for a while, lately though he has been watching our every move and really showing lots of interest in everything around him so I started again with just a few signs. Things have been pretty hectic at our place in the past month, packing up our house in Sydney and moving to Canberra, which made it hard to be really consistant with it, so I was quite suprised to see Harri signing back “Mummy” after showing him maybe half a dozen times. We got so excited and gave him so much praise for being so clever, he was very proud of himself!
Harri’s big sister Maija is almost 3 and is very keen to teach him to sign, she loves to show him different signs and play games with our Signing Stars flashcards with him. We didn’t start signing with Maija until she was over 1 so its very exciting to be signing this early with Harri. Now that we are set up in our new house I will put up our “Signs that Stick” to help Daddy(Henrik) can get involved too.
Will update with news on our signing progress soon,

Sonya