Why should you offer baby signing within your nursery?

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Do a quick search on the internet, for nurseries offering baby sign they almost always charge higher fees than those who do not.

Professional parents expect a high quality service; they want to be assured that their child will receive an enriching educational experience whilst they are away at work.

By introducing baby signing into your nursery you can demonstrate to parents how you provide exciting opportunities for even the youngest children within your nursery.

Even more importantly teaching these signs to the children within your nursery will reduce their frustration as they will be able to communicate their needs effectively, thus you will decrease the amount of time your staff spend consoling irritable babies and increase the time they have to create a fun and stimulating environment in which youngsters can flourish.

 

Facts & Figures

(Facts and figures taken from original study by Drs. Linda Acredolo and Susan Goodwyn).

Many people are sceptical about baby signing, however we feel the following statistics speak for themselves:

At 24 months, signing-babies were found to talk on average more like 27- or 28-month-olds. This represents more than a three-month advantage over the non-signing babies.

In addition, the 24-month-old signing babies were putting together significantly longer sentences.

At 36 months the signing-babies on average were talking like 47-month-olds, putting them almost a full year ahead of their average age-mates.

By the age of eight, children who had learned to sign as babies had an average IQ of 114 compared to an IQ of 102 for those that didn't.