Baby Sign Language Chart
The printable baby sign language chart helps you learn the basic signs so that you can in turn teach your baby. The free baby sign language chart is made up of six separate sheets of paper that are each printed out and then taped together to make the final chart. Pin the chart to a wall or your refrigerator and before you know it you will be signing like a pro!
The wall chart is particularly useful as a reminder for caregivers or babysitters who may be seeing the signs for the first time or just need a reminder.
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The Wall Chart gives family members an easy way to learn baby sign language. It also helps babysitters, grandparents, and other caregivers understand baby’s signing when you are away.
- 17 Basic Signs – mommy, daddy, cat, grandmother, grandfather, dog, cat, more, all done, water, milk, diaper, bath, bed, car, ball, and book.
- High Quality Construction – printed on thick stock with a glossy wipe clean finish.
- Large Format – 24″ x 36″
The Deluxe Baby Sign Language Kit, bundles together everything you need to get started with signing in one box, at a steep discount. The kit includes: (1) Baby Sign Language Guide Book; (2) Baby Sign Language Dictionary: (3) Baby Sign Language Flash Cards; and (4) Baby Sign Language Wall Chart.
Baby Sign Language Guide Book shows you how to teach your child how to sign. The book begins with a Quick Start Guide that will teach you your first signs and having you ready to sign in 30 minutes. As your baby progresses, you can delve into more advanced topics like combining signs to make phrases, using props, and transitioning to speech. (Regularly $19.95)
Baby Sign Language Dictionary contains over 600 signs including the most common words, the alphabet and numbers. The dictionary helps you expand your child’s vocabulary, and has the breadth of coverage that lets you follow any child’s natural interests. Each sign is illustrated with two or more diagrams, showing you the starting position, the ending position, and intermediate motion. This makes learning new signs easy. (Regularly $19.95)
Baby Sign Language Flash Cards include 52 sturdy board (4×6 inches) flash cards, covering a variety of basic signs. The flash cards allow you to teach words, such as animal names, that Baby is not exposed to in everyday life. The face of the flash cards shows the word and image for the child. The back of the flash cards show how the sign is performed, a handy reminder for the adult. (Regularly $24.95)
Baby Sign Language Wall Chart includes 22 basic signs, and makes a handy reminder for caregivers. The Baby Sign Language Wall Chart covers basic signs, like eat, drink, and sleep. Hang the poster in Baby’s Nursery to help babysitters, or other occasional caregivers learn and decode the most commonly used baby signs. (Regularly $9.95)
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Baby Sign Language Guide Book
Learn the best techniques for effectively teaching baby sign language. Including:
• Quick Start Guide – learn the first 10 signs and the basic principles required to start teaching your baby to sign (Chapter 1).
• Advanced Teaching Methods – use teaching aids like books, flash cards, and toys to keep lessons interesting and challenging (Chapter 5).
• Phrases – teach your baby to combine signs and communicate more complex thoughts (Chapter 6).
• Taming the Terrible Twos – reduce frustration and tantrums by enabling your toddler to communicate (Chapter 7).
• Transitioning to Speech – use sign language to expedite and improve speech development (Chapter 8).
Sarah learned her first 10 signs at six month and it made our lives much easier. Instead of screaming, she could tell us when she was hungry, thirsty, or tired. She learned another 50 signs by nine months and that was a blast. Now she is talking much earlier than the other children in her preschool and we think it is because of her signing.
We can’t imagine missing out on all the little things she shared with baby sign language. Thank You!
- Bennett & Melissa Z., CA
Pediatrician Approved
“It’s easy to see why so many parents swear by it, why child care centers include it in their infant and toddler classrooms, and why it has become so commonplace as an activity of daily learning … we approve.”
Heading Home With Your Newborn (Second Edition)
Dr. Laura A. Jana MD FAAP & Dr .Jennifer Shu MD FAAP
American Academy of Pediatricians
Baby Sign Language Flash Cards
52 high quality flash cards (4 x 6″). Featuring:
• Clean Images – real life pictures, isolated on a white background to make learning easier.
• Signs on the Rear – diagrams on the back illustrating the signign motion in case you need a reminder.
• Baby Friendly – printed on thick stock so little hands can play with the cards and they will live to play another day.
I was thrilled to see how easy the signs were for Abigail (3) and Eden (21 months). Much to my surprise they could figure out many of the signs from the flashcards on their own.
- Carrie P., TX
Study: Signing Enriches
“The Sign Training group told us over and over again … [signing] made communication easier and interactions more positive.”
“these data demonstrate clearly that … [signing] … seems to “jump start” verbal development”
“can facilitate and enrich interactions between parent and child”
Impact of Symbolic Gesturing on Early Language Development
Dr. Susan Goodwyn, Dr. Linda Acredolo, & Dr. Catherine Brown
Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
Baby Sign Language Dictionary
The Baby Sign Language Dictionary includes :
• Words (500+) – learn signs for nearly every topic of interest.
• Letters – sign the alphabet and teach basic spelling.
• Numbers (0-10) – introduce counting and basic mathematics.
Nicholas loves his signs and it lights up our lives every time he shares one of his little secrets. He is so observant, and we would miss it all without the signs.
- Donald Family, NY
Baby Sign Language Wall Chart
The full color wall chart (24 x 36″) includes 17 everyday signs. Use the wall chart for:
• Caregivers – help babysitters and other caregivers learn the basic signs so they can understand baby’s signs.
• Family – teach family the basic signs so they can join in the fun.
Everyone thought I was nuts when I started. A month later, all my friends saw Michelle’s first signs. Then they wanted to know how they could start.
Michelle is talking now and doesn’t sign much anymore, but it gave her a headstart over other children her age. Everyone says she talks like a three year old. Now she is helping me teach her baby brother Jordan how to sign.
- Adelaide S., CA
Study: Better in School
A group of second graders who signed as infants, performed better academically than a control group six years later. The signers had a 12 IQ point advantage.
Longterm Impact of Symbolic Gesturing During Infancy at Age 8
Dr. Linda P. Acredolo (Professor, U.C. Davis)
Dr. Susan W. Goodwyn (Professor, California State University)
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Your baby loves signing, or a full refund.
As you can tell, we love Baby Sign Language. It transformed the way we interacted with our children, and we want every family to have the opportunity. Baby Sign Language will make a difference for your child. Give it a try.
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this was a great site!
Love love love this site.
Will share with everyone I know!
Melissa
Love the free downloads…thank you very much
This is a wonderful site for me to help my daughter communicate with us until she starts to talk more. Thank you for all of the posters. Keep up the wonderful work.
This is a wonderful site. I love the videos, they really clarify the symbols. I am recommending this site to everyone I know because you never know what may happen during childhood development. My best friend has an autistic child. I suggested that she learn sign language to communicate with him. I am also teaching my 17 month old to sign and he is doing very well. Everyone thinks he is so smart!!
I have been teaching my 8 and 2 yr old Spanish and sign language simultaneously. We learn a new word or phrase in both languages each day. This site will make this much easier with your flash cards. Thanks so much.
My baby is 9.5 months old and she leans thing pretty quick, I want to teach her and my self signing but I’m verry bad at teaching it. I’ve tried but she neveR pays attention to what I’m doing or how I’m doing it, she loves looking around and hates sitting still how can I teach her so she’ll learn?
Hi Renee, babies learn by imitation and repetition. They will mimic what they see reinforced in their environment. Many studies show that babies learn to listen even while still in the womb. Don’t be discourage by your baby’s interest to engage with other things in her environment. Instead use these opportunities to reinforce signs. For example, if your baby becomes engaged with a certain toy teach her the name of the toy as well as the sign. Before you know it she will surprise and delight you. Signing for babies is quite easy and every mom can do it. To remind yourself of the importance of repetition go ahead and print our signing for babies chart .
hi my daughter just turned two she knows all the basics and is going into putting sentences together she has speech apraxia but can hear fair most baby signs im finding is one word and i dont know if im putting the phrases together right like are you thristy , do you have to pee, lets go bye bye , it just seems like shes bored and i want to use more everyday sign with her.
Our 9 month old daughter seems really close to saying her first word. We were just recently told about teaching babies to use sign language. Is it too late to teach a child to sign if she’s already trying to speak?
ADMIN – Hi Guy,
9 months is a fine age to start her. Sign language tends to help babies with speech acquisition. You will notice that when she starts talking her words will often be difficult to understand. When she accompanies the word with the sign, it will be much easier for you to understand her and she will be encouraged to keep on speaking and signing. Signing will also help you as a bridge in the early days of her speaking when she will find it much easier to grow her signing vocabulary that her spoken vocabulary due to the difficulty of making some of the more complex sounds that we use in our spoken language.
that is so sweet for yall to make dhz website for baby to learn
I was first introduced to baby signs in 1998 when my niece, Taylor who was born with downs, was being taught signing in her therapy. I was amazed at how fast she was able to pick it up. When Taylor was 2 she had a sign vocabulary of 126 words. In 2000 I had my 3rd baby and when he turned 6 months old, we began teaching him the basic signs like more, drink, eat, play, and all done. My son was about 19 months old when he began to speak and even though it was hard to understand his words, through his signing, we were able to communicate with him. His ability to communicate with us through sign made for a very happy baby who didn’t cry much. For the parents who question if they can teach this to their babies, just remember repeating yourself to your baby and continuing to show the sign at the same time will work. Work on 1 word at a time to make it easier for you and your baby. Good luck!!
this is really cool and it helps and my baby is a happy baby<3
My grandson is 8mths old and I have been teaching him to sign for 2 mths now and he seems to watch me when I sign but he hasn’t done one yet….am I just being impatient?
Hi Sheri, stop by our blog and read the series on gender differences when it comes to baby signing
Wow. This is really comprehensible. I found it is good to start at the basics with the English language.
this is a good website to learn i just started and i have learn a lot! i love this website
I will be surprised if this gets posted. Be warned this is not baby signs. This is ASL. For those who want a simplified way to communicate with your baby, you will want the Baby Signs. For those who want more complicated signs, or want the ability to communicate with the deaf (which is obviously useful) choose this. But this is very misleading when I am searching for charts/tools for baby signs authored by Dr. Acredolo & Dr. Goodwin.
ADMIN – Hi Katie,
Thanks for your comment. There is no ‘official’ baby sign language. Some authors have made up their own signs, and other have used American Sign Language (ASL). The movement has shifted toward using ASL for babies and that now seems to be how the vast majority of babies are taught. Both ways of doing it are good, and both are a lot better than doing nothing.
We use ASL for a few reasons. First, since it is the more common form of Baby Sign Language, it is more likely your child will be able to communicate with other babies, and other caregivers. Second, there are a lot of ASL materials available online and in physical form so it is easier to find supporting materials. And third, if the child wants to go on with learning ASL then they have a foundation. So that is why we use ASL with out children. That said, other methods are good too and we appreciate your clarification.
Love teaching my children sign language and learning more everyday myself. I’m not trying to be a Negative-Nancy but does anyone else find it wrong and slightly disturbing that “Please” and “Thank You” are not on the “most commonly used poster”. And this is supposed to be a tool to help teach our future generation ? :( Respect and manners go a long way. I would think those are two simple enough and important signs to have on there.
ADMIN – Hi Mnikki,
Thanks for your comment. Parents often ask us why please and thank you aren’t among the first words we teach. We made the choice not to include courtesy words (like please and thank you) on our list of starter signs or the poster, because they are difficult concepts for pre-verbal children to grasp and because they are not the most useful signs. We usually wait until the child is a bit older to teach courtesy signing.
Courtesy is a complex concept and not a good starting point for a pre-verbal child learning to sign. Even when they learn the sign, they don’t understand what please means, either they just imitating or they think it means something along the lines of give me now. Courtesy is of course a very important value, but we usually wait until the child is a little older to start teaching those concepts when they can better comprehend what it means.
The courtesy signs also aren’t the most important signs in the early days. If your six-month old child can tell you when they are hungry, thirsty, or need a diaper change, that is much more useful to both the parent and child than courtesy signing.
None of this is to suggest we don’t want to teach courtesy, we just wait a little longer. And naturally, if you think those signs are important and want to start teaching them early the flash cards for the courtesy signs are available on the website for you to print out.
Que dios te bendiga soy sorda lider enseñar para sordos adulto cristiano aprendimos lenguaje de señas y sign language.
[May God bless you. I am a deaf leader for Christian adults and we have learned Spanish sign language and sign language. Just a fan loving you!]
My 30 year old is pregnant with my first grandchild and I am buying this set for her. I taught her signs when she was an infant – I remember her putting together the ‘more milk’ phrase and the ‘all done’ – she was verbal at 8 months but this helped immensely, way back when. I will be the nanny for the first nine months as she finishes law school – I am going to work on signing and Spanish simultaneously – I can’t wait! It worked wonders with her – I have to admit I probably got overwhelmed by the time I had three under the age of 5 and the two later ones didn’t get the attention they should have. I also had no ‘tools’ to work with, no flash cards, no guide, no nada…I was just figuring it out on my own. This will simplify that aspect immensely!