Answering your Baby Sign Language Questions!

I’m happy to announce that WeeHands is starting a new feature for our e-newsletter subscribers and on our YouTube channel. Every week we are going to answer your questions about baby sign language and language development.

If you have a question about baby sign language and language development, just email them to questions@weehands.com

While on YouTube you can subscribe to the WeeHands channel. If you subscribe you’ll be notified each time we post a new video.

Be sure to join our WeeHands Warriors on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and Pinterest!  WeeHands is all about encouraging communication and connections! I look forward to connecting with you next time!

Encouraging Communication Is On The Air!

We even have a radio show for you! Join Sara Bingham, WeeHands Founder and author of The Baby Signing Book, each week as she shares parenting tips, language development strategies, and the joys using sign language with your baby, toddler and/or preschool child.  Our “Encouraging Communication” radio blog is a place where we can answer your sign language and language development questions. 

Follow the WeeHands on BlogTalk Radio: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/weehands

Sign the of Week Posters

We're bring them back!

Every week you’ll get a link to our Sign of the Week poster to print and to share with friends! This poster is a one page PDF featuring one sign a week from The Baby Signing Book. Each poster shows an illustration of the sign, its written description and a large photograph of the item.  We’ll also include a video of the ASL sign. We want to make it easy for you to learn and teach each new sign. These Sign of the Week posters are great to display at home or in your classroom!

  

Share this newsletter with friends to tell them about our posters!

#WeeHandsWarrior Tweet Chat

Join us every Monday evening at 9 pm EST for our #WeeHandsWarriors Tweet Chat. In a fun hour, you’ll learn fun ways to interact with your baby. 

We’ll have great parenting experts as guests. There may even be a prize or two! Our #WeeHandsWarriors tweet chat is a great way to connect with other parents and educators who are signing with their babies or toddlers!

Be sure to follow @WeeHands on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/weehands

Peek a Boo with Baby

I'd like to share a wee bit of the activities that we share with parents in our Early Communication Skills online home program for parents. One of the activities in the program is called PEEK A BOO.

Now, we've adapted the typical game of PEEK A BOO so that it helps your child learn joint attention and turn taking skills. What you need is a small blanket and a favorite stuffed animal. Then do the following:

1. First cover your child's head with the blanket and as you slowly take it off, sign and say "Where is Ben?"  When you've pulled the blanket off completely exclaim and sign "Peek A BOO" when you see his face.
2. Now, cover your head with the blanket and encourage your child to pull it off your head.  Help them if they need it.
3. Lastly, cover the stuffed animal with the blanket and as you slowly take it off, sign and say "Where is bear? When you've pulled the blanket off completely exclaim and sign "Peek A BOO" when you see the bear's face.

Remember to be animated. You want to get your child's attention and being animated, using movement (signs) and having fun with your voice will help get their attention. When you have their attention, they can learn!

Some wonderful books about playing PEEKABOO that you can share with your child include:

• Look Book by Tana Hoban
• Just Look by Tana Hoban
• Peek-A-Boo  by Francesca Ferri

Now I'd love to hear from you! I want to hear your stories! Share your stories and let us know how both you and your baby are doing.

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Sara Bingham is the founder of WeeHands and the author of The Baby Signing Book. WeeHands is the world's leading children's sign language and language development program for babies, toddlers and preschool children.

Sara completed an honours Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics at the University of Ottawa, and has earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Carleton University. In addition, she has earned an honours post-graduate diploma from Georgian College, as a Communicative Disorders Assistant. 

Since 2001, across North America licensed WeeHands Instructors have taught thousands of families and caregivers to sign with their children. In a WeeHands baby sign language class, you and your family are taught by a qualified instructor to use American Sign Language signs, songs and language development strategies with your little one!

Teach with WeeHands

WeeHands is an infant, toddler and preschool sign language program born in Brooklin, Ontario, Canada. Since 2001, we have taught thousands of families to sign with their babies and toddlers in Canada and the US. WeeHands certified and licensed Instructors teach families ASL vocabulary as well as language development strategies that are important to early language learners.

All certified and licensed WeeHands Instructors have access to: 

• our certification, including training and testing, 1-Star, 2-Star and 3-Star Instructor programs 
• access to purchase our baby, toddler, preschool and educator teaching educational children's sign language curriculum 
• support from both our founder, Sara Bingham, and our other WeeHands Instructors 
• our specially designed WeeHands Instructors forums that is only open to WeeHands Instructors where you'll have access to all other WeeHands Instructors, read great tips on subjects such as marketing, workshops, setting and running classes. etc. 
• WeeHands marketing materials, including brochures, fliers, business cards and certificates. 
• leads that come in from your community as well social media shout-outs on our Twitter and Facebook pages.

Just click the button below to apply to start teaching with WeeHands today!