Pamela Paul has an essay on Babble today that analyzes the merits of teaching our babies sign language. In the piece, excerpted from
Paul's book, "Parenting Inc.,"
she finds that there isn't anything wrong with showing infants how to
communicate with their hands. But she also discovers that it may not be
as overwhelmingly beneficial as the initial studies by Linda Acredolo
and Susan Goodwyn, founders of the Baby Signs Institute, suggested.
"Parents who sign to their children are also talking to them — and no
study can prove that talking alone didn't lead to later verbal
advances," Paul writes.
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