The Best Baby Sign Language Books

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Baby Sign Language Books

Another great way to learn is to use highly recommended baby sign language books and videos. You can find all of the best baby sign language books and videos we’ve found below:

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Teach Your Baby to Sign: An Illustrated Guide to Simple Sign Language for Babies
This book has a fantastic layout and is very easy to understand. The book includes over 200 illustrations of ASL signs as well as photos of babies signing. This is very comprehensive guide and we highly recommend it.

Baby Sign Language Basics: Early Communication for Hearing Babies and Toddlers
This book is very small (about 4″ x 4″) and can go wherever your baby goes! The book uses ASL (which is great), and illustrates over 60 signs. We highly recommend it.

Baby Sign Language Flash Cards: A 50-Card Deck (Cards)
Flashcards are always a great way to practice and retain what you learn. These flashcards are perfect for going along with the Baby Sign Language Basics curriculum. A must have!

Baby Talk: A Guide to Using Basic Sign Language to Communicate with Your Baby
This is a very clear step-by-step baby sign language guide. It is simple and a great first step to teaching your baby sign language. We recommend buying this informational book.

The “Sign, Sing, and Play” Kit (Baby Sign Language Basics)
The point of this book is to be fun. It goes along with the Baby Sign Language Basics curriculum and includes the Sign, Sing, and Play! Book, Flash Cards for Signing and Games, the “Songs for Little Hands” CD, and the Signing Melodies and Activity Guide. You can sign along with the flashcards as you make up a story about the pictures, sing and sign a song along with the “Songs for Little Hands” music CD (an illustrated Sing-and-Sign guide is included), play a game with your baby from Sign, Sing, and Play, a book of signing games and activities for at home and on the go! Get ready to have fun and watch your baby’s signing really take off!

The Baby Signing Book: Includes 350 ASL Signs for Babies and Toddlers
If you are ready for more signs with your baby, this dictionary of 300 signs makes for a user-friendly and comprehensive baby signing book! Many parents use this book in addition to the Baby Signing Time DVDs in order to learn and teach more signs. Highly recommended!

Words By the Handful – Box Set (Board books)
This baby board book set is a great way to read to your children and teach them sign language at the same time! The stories are adorable, engaging, and best of all – unique. Each Words by the Handful story weaves five signs into a 300 – 600 word engaging children’s tale. Baby Ellis is hungry, but he can’t talk, and neither can his friends BB The Black Bear and Ducky – except, that is, to each other. What can they do? They say it with sign language.

The Pigs Got Out
Enjoy learning American Sign Language (ASL) signs as you read a fun story about Lila and her siblings’ crazy day getting 22 baby pigs back in their pen. Simple illustrations and clearly drawn signs will leave the kids saying “Let’s read it again!”

Mary’s First Christmas
Now you can enjoy learning American Sign Language (ASL) signs as you read about the birth of Jesus Christ. He came as a humble baby and lived a perfect life. He showed us the way to find true joy! With Simple Illustrations and clearly drawn signs, reading and signing this book will become a new Christmas tradition!

Hand Artists: Did You See What They Said?
Kyleigh loves visiting her best friend Erin and her family, the Barbers. They have interesting devices, like a doorbell that lights up the house and a telephone with a screen. Most of all, Kyleigh likes to watch the family make “art” as they communicate with their flying fingers. The Barbers are deaf, so they speak using American Sign Language (ASL) and teach Kyleigh how to use it–with plenty of humor! This book is an introduction to the highly distinctive language and culture of the Deaf community.

American Sign Language Dictionary
This is the dictionary that I own and love. It’s a huge book and explains more than 5,000 signs and has over 8,000 illustrations. You definitely need to have a dictionary like this if you are interested in teaching your baby more and more signs!

The American Sign Language Handshape Dictionary
This is a great resource in that the dictionary is organized by handshape, not by word. If you leave this book with your caregiver, she can look up the signs that your baby may be signing to her.

The Best Baby Sign Language Videos

Signing Time Season 1 (Digital)
The show Signing Time is a lot of fun! You can now watch this fabulous show on your mobile device!

Baby Signing Time (Digital)
A fun new digital version of the popular DVD series for babies and toddlers.

Signing Time Sing and Sign (Digital)
A fun new Signing Time show where you can learn to sing and sign!

Signing Time Volume 1: My First Signs (DVD)
The show Signing Time is a lot of fun! These are not only great DVDs for teaching your kids, but also to practice vocabulary! We highly recommend these DVDs.

Baby Signing Time Volume 1 (DVD)
The show Signing Time is already a lot of fun! Now, just introduce that to your baby and you’ve got Baby Signing Time! We highly recommend these DVDs.

ASL Tales: The Princess and the Pea (DVD)
A modern retelling of the classic story with a decidedly NOT-dainty princess. The haughty Queen, perfectly portrayed in ASL by Pinky Aiello, learns that a true Princess is more than dainty. Children and adults will delight in the story and the whimsical illustrations. The book/DVD package is accompanied by web-based instruction that, unlike most children’s sign language materials, teach fundamentals of ASL grammar, vocabulary and syntax. Enjoyable and instructive for novice and advanced users of ASL. Written by A. Rodriguez and J. Starr, illustrated by J. Hood, and performed in ASL by Pinky Aiello.

You can be confident that the baby sign language books on this list have been researched extensively so you get what you want instead of guessing.

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Michelle Jay

Michelle Jay is the founder of StartASL.com. She earned a Bachelor‘s Degree in Deaf Studies, with an emphasis in teaching, from one of the nation’s premier programs at California State University, Northridge. Michelle is a published author and has contributed thought-provoking articles to academic publishers such as Greenhaven Press. Her unique articles have done much to support Deaf Culture, and have been printed in resource publications such as American Chronicle and Perspectives on Diseases & Disorders: Deafness & Hearing Impairments.

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