Baby Sign Language

Imagine communicating with your baby before he or she can even speak. Baby sign language reduces frustration, accelerates verbal development and strengthens cognitive skills. It also enhances child-parent bonding through time spent teaching signs to your baby.

Research shows that preverbal infants can communicate through the use of sign language long before they can verbalize their needs. At My Smart Hands™, we offer classes and workshops based on the that use 100% ASL. We will give you the skills and knowledge you will need to communicate with your preverbal, hearing baby. So come and take a class with My Smart Hands™ and learn how to sign with your baby!

If you want to learn how to sign with your baby and the benefits of baby sign language then you’ve come to the right place!! If you are looking for baby and toddler sign language classes, My Smart Hands™ is here to meet your needs. Learn how signs taken from American Sign Language (ASL) can help you engage your child in two-way communication.

Laura with her 12 month old daughter, Fireese

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MSH Fan of the month!

Is your child a “Super Signer”? Are you a fan of MSH? If so, email me at laura@mysmarthands.com with your video or picture and a little blurb about signing and we’ll feature your little one on our home page as our “Super Signer” of the month! Click here to see our past Super Signers.

This month’s “Super Signer” is Harry.

I am excited to announce the release of our My Smart Hands baby sign language dictionary iPhone App!!

For more information about our app click here or to purchase it visit: http://itunes.com/app/MySmartHands

We were already excited about the prospect of having our first child, Harry, and after stumbling across the youtube video of Fireese signing at 11 months we became even more so. We looked forward communicating with Harry before he could use verbal language.

I downloaded some of Laura's videos and began practising the alphabet and some 'food words'. When Harry was 6 months old we started using sign language with him at every opportunity. It wasn't long before he was signing 'milk' and 'light', and that was an amazing turning point for all of us.

Now Harry is almost 14 months old, and he seems to get a new word every other day - we're finding it hard to keep up. I often visit the my smart hands web-dictionary to learn the sign for the new thing Harry is interested in or eating.

Harry finds signing useful at day care, where we're teaching the staff Harry's signs as he learns each one. Today they said he was chatting all afternoon in sign, including using some signs he made up himself with a meaning only known to him.

Thanks Laura,

Garth - 'Dad'

Welcome to My Smart Hands! We are a group of baby sign language instructors that use 100% ASL signs to teach parents how to communicate with their hearing babies. Our classes are full of fun and energy and are filled will music, games, books and more! Please spend some time looking through our website. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact Laura, the founder of My Smart Hands.

We are excited to announce that MSH has been nominated for the Savvy Mom Entrepreneur of the Year Award!! With your help we could win first prize!

Please take a moment to go and vote for us, your support is greatly appreciated!!

Click on the above Daily App Show logo to see the video of our featured app! The video gives a detailed look at the functionality of our dictionary app.