A recent article published, Read All About It: Linking the Baby Signs® Program and Literacy Development
by Linda Acredolo, Ph.D. and Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D. Co-founders, Baby Signs, Inc. touched on a topic that people ask me about all the time. Will signing help or hurt babies literacy later? Read the following short passage for the short answer, or email me and I'd be happy to send you a copy of the whole article.
Knowing lots of words helps children comprehend what is read, guess at words that are difficult to decode, explain problems they are having, and understand explanations and instructions teachers provide.
And how does the Baby Signs® program help? Our NIH-supported research showed that infants exposed to signs during infancy had better receptive and expressivelanguage vocabularies by the time they were two and three years old. In fact, the infants who learned to use signs as infants had verbal IQ scores that remained high well into the elementary school years.
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