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Format Designed to Engage and Delight Your Baby
The My Baby Can Talk™
series is designed to engage and
entertain babies and their parents.
This series features beautiful real
world images, delightful puppet shows,
colorful toys in motion and babies
communicating with simple gestures; set
to some of the most famous and inspiring
classical music. The length of the
production, and therefore the number of
signs featured in each production, is
specifically designed to respect the
developmental stage, attention span and
intellect of hearing babies from 10 to
36 months.
Babies Teaching
Babies
My Baby Can Talk™
is the first sign
language series for babies featuring
preverbal babies signing all of the
words presented. This demonstrates that
babies can, in fact, sign. It also
shows the way in which babies are likely
to sign since most babies use an adapted
version of the formal ASL sign. In
addition, babies are naturally inspired
by the actions of other babies. All the
signs are presented by an adult as well
to ensure that the most pristine form of
each ASL sign is demonstrated.
Multiple Visual Images for Each Word
Various images and sounds from different
perspectives are presented for each sign
being taught including animate and
inanimate objects. This encourages
babies to focus on a pattern for a given
word by helping them to place different
images into one category. For example,
the segment for “cat” includes multiple
images of real cats and kittens, a
rattle and various toys with the
features of a cat as well as the sound
that a cat makes. Offering multiple
visual images, sounds and perspectives
helps babies reach an important
milestone in language development; the
application of abstract symbols (signs)
to experiences in the world by placing
seemingly different objects into one
category, long before babies can speak.
American Sign Language
The My Baby Can Talk™
series teaches
babies American Sign Language (ASL)
which is a natural and iconic language.
This means that many of the signs look
like distinctive parts of the objects or
actions that these signs represent
making ASL easy to learn and remember.
ASL serves as the perfect first language
for babies since they can more easily
make a connection between the sign and
the object or action it represents while
providing parents a reference source of
the language.
Advancing Language Development
The intention of the My Baby Can
Talk™
series is to bring babies through
the developmental milestones in
acquiring sign language as a means to
communicate as well as encouraging first
spoken words. The first milestone
occurs when babies recognize signing as
a form of communication by watching and
understanding hand movements – passive
language development. The second
milestone is marked by a baby’s display
of their first sign – active language
development. The third milestone,
sometimes referred to as a signing
explosion or signing cluster, occurs
after a baby has acquired and is
actively using their first five to ten
signs. Once babies have passed through
these three milestones, they are likely
to learn additional signs very rapidly
and begin to verbalize as well.
Parent Tutorials & Quick Reference Signing Cards
We have included an easy and enjoyable tutorial which is a practical guide to
teaching your baby to sign. This tutorial gives you a few of the most important
guidelines to begin to sign with your baby. The tutorial has been placed at the
end of the video, for ease of access, so that you can choose whether or not to
watch it again and again once you have learned the basic concepts presented.
Commitment to High Quality Production
We are committed to producing high quality products for babies and their
parents. Although babies have fewer experiences than adults, or perhaps because
of this, we believe that babies are very sensitive to the quality of the media
that they watch. Babies prefer clear and colorful images placed into an
entertaining format with high quality sounds and music and aesthetically
coordinated presentation of sight and sound.
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