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Signing has grown to become valuable to hearing children. The benefits include:
- A “hands-on” method of communicating their wants and needs – helping to reduce crying screaming, and temper tantrums.
- Helps to ease parental communication frustrations. Parents can know what their child is interested in.
- Provides parents with an insight into the world of their preverbal and newly verbal toddlers.
- Accelerates language development – often giving signing children twice the usable vocabulary of their non-signing friends.
- Stimulates brain development.
- Provides for increased communication skills that help to expand language and knowledge (scaffolding). Giving children a “Jump Start on Smart” in preparation for elementary school.
- Develops fine and gross motor skills.
- Stimulates eye-hand coordination.
- Stimulates memory retention and recall.
- Improves reading readiness.
- Develops confidence and positive self-esteem.
- Provides for a fun parent child / teacher child bonding activity.
- Fosters an enthusiasm for learning.
- Is a fun and playful activity.
- Supports the learning of language and educational basics – ABC's, Colors, Numbers, Rhymes, Animals, Phonics, and vocabulary.
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