Parents who use sign language with their babies could drastically improve their vocabulary and language skills new research shows. Even babies that are not deaf can learn to communicate with their hands.
Mia Jones has been speaking to her parents since she was 8 months old, long before she ever said a word. Instead of her mouth, Mia uses to hands to chatter away with her deaf parents.
When I had my son I decided that I wasn’t going to do sign language with him. I thought it was a weird, hardcore parent thing that was unnecessary. It wasn’t until his therapists urged us to show him a few signs to get by, that I started to realize it was quicker for him [...]
