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General Issues in Child Language Development - We followed a group of about 40 babies in an experimental group and 80 babies in two control groups from 11 to 36 months, assessing them on a variety of standardized language and cognitive measures at 11, 15, 19, 24, 30, and 36 months. These data indicated clear advantages for the "Baby Sign" babies in both receptive and expressive language.

Hearing infants show preference for sign language over pantomime - Six-month-old hearing infants exposed to American Sign Language for the first time prefer it to pantomime, lending new evidence that humans show a broad preference for languages over "non-languages."

Infant Brain Makes Sense of Language - A baby's brain can process language as early as 3 months of age, a French study suggests.

Learning to Sign Benefits All Young Children - Teaching all children sign language allows an adult to jump-start a child’s language learning and stimulate her cognitive growth.

Look who's talking with gestures - Infants and toddlers who learn a simple sign language for common words may learn to speak faster and may do better on future IQ tests than children who learn to speak the usual way.

Sign Language: The Best Second Language? - Research shows benefits of learning Sign for hearing kids are many. In fact they are so numerous that one has to wonder if Sign Language should be the second language that hearing kids learn.

Sign Up and Speak Up - Using ASL encourages shy children to increase their language-acquisition skills in a relatively pressure-free environment.

Signs for Babies - Baby signs favor kids' intellectual growth in school.

Study examines fluency in language - The critical childhood window for becoming fluent in a language applies to sign language as well as spoken language, according to a new study.

Talk To The Hand - Babies' sign language 'tells' parents what they want.

Teaching Sign Language To Babies - Can Teaching Sign Language to Babies Help Their Development?

Babies 'can learn' in the womb - Babies are able to learn and remember while still in the womb, according to a study.

Baby Brainpower - Scientists are discovering that newborns—once thought to enter the world as blank slates onto which a lifetime of experiences was inscribed—have brains as sophisticated as the most powerful supercomputer, wired with a mind-boggling capacity for knowledge. Research has also shown that in the earliest months of life, a dazzling amount of brain development continues to occur.

Baby Gestures - Use of representational gestures (baby signs) is evidence that the baby has developed the capacity to form concepts and to use symbols to represent those concepts.

Baby Signs - Official site of authors of Baby Signs Talk with your Baby Before Your Baby can Talk. Research parent experiences and more about the books.

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