About Baby Sign Language and Elimination Communication

By Fidela Mcgillivray


Teaching pre-verbal infants or toddlers, baby sign language is an excellent method to consider.

Infants can be trained Baby Sign Language at any age, whenever the parents want to start they can join their child anytime. Although actual effects really start to become noticeable when the child is at six months old, when they reached the age of seven to eight months old that will be the time parents will see signs that the kids are using them. As a number of proud parents can defend that the early age of their baby is really the time their brains are developing and working. They are trying to comprehend countless things around them before they even try to converse through speaking.

Babies that are able to give out this sign can now tell you that they need help to the toilet or to the potty. Basically it starts with recognition of the needs of their body, perhaps as they go, moments before or after.
Basically, sign language is a 'bridge' between our pre-verbal babies and our verbal culture. What you are doing is really giving them a tool so that they are able to communicate with you. Signs are recognize by babies as soon as they are able because our visual memories are older. Although earlier and later than 12 months is possible, but around that time, it is common for signing to really pick up. Look out for any recognition of signs that your baby might be giving out in order to talk to you.

Make your sign appropriate or natural for your baby. It should be something that your baby can imitate, simple and should always be used with spoken word and loving eye contact. For you to make it easy for you to sign regularly in your day so that baby sign language and infant pottying are simply integrated and normal parts of your lifestyle, here are three guidelines.

The Three Guidelines to Remember When Combining Infant Pottying With Baby Sign Language:

1. Do the sign every time you approach or go near the potty

2. It helps if you make your sign when the baby is on the potty

3. Respect their reservations, use the sign to see if your baby wants to use their potty- respond to their excitement

You will be adding baby sign language to your elimination communication moments with ease, with these three simple strategies. Your infant will sometimes show a great awareness and control. Eventually your baby will sign clearly and in a timely way. There will be times when they will not, being a busy person is an exciting job of discover and doing so, is the least of their thoughts! There will be an ebb and flow as you practice baby sign language and of EC to ebb and flow. There will be flashes of amazing communication like any natural process, the reason families get hooked on elimination communication. You may see this as a wonderful and fleeting sign of the future, and not as an expectation that they will be toilet independent at a very early age. Basically EC is something that one practice regularly, something that is par of your lifestyle, and not just a 'method' or results based activity like conventional potty or toilet training.
3. Respect their reservations, use the sign to see if your baby wants to use their potty- respond to their excitement

You will be adding baby sign language to your elimination communication moments with ease, with these three simple strategies. Your infant will sometimes show a great awareness and control. Eventually your baby will sign clearly and in a timely way. There will be times when they will not, being a busy person is an exciting job of discover and doing so, is the least of their thoughts! There will be an ebb and flow as you practice baby sign language and of EC to ebb and flow. There will be flashes of amazing communication like any natural process, the reason families get hooked on elimination communication. You may see this as a wonderful and fleeting sign of the future, and not as an expectation that they will be toilet independent at a very early age. Basically EC is something that one practice regularly, something that is par of your lifestyle, and not just a 'method' or results based activity like conventional potty or toilet training.

Give it a go because this method of teaching your baby to communicate, Baby Sign Language and EC, are absolutely great combinations that will really encourage and help your child communicate to you. You will be helping the environment because you will be gradually reduce the use of diapers or nappies saving money and enjoying a new dimension in the bond you share with your baby.




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