I Taught My Baby Sign Language For A Week 

My son was delayed in speech so i started teaching him basic signs around your baby's age. It took more than a week but he learned please and thank you. More. Eat. Drink. Play. Ball. Cookie. Milk. Mom and dad. It was his primary way to communicate until he began to speak at three. He was a lot less stressed. More happy. You just have to be consistent. As you speak you sign. Also shows with baby signs will help.

Only a week? Sign language is like any other language, especially if you're trying to teach it to a child. Needs to be ingrained throughout all of their childhood.

Teaching your baby sign language starts right at infancy, not when your baby is basically able to feed themselves hand to mouth. No, it starts right away before they can ever speak or make a sound. Make the repetitive motions associated with the actions, the infant will learn to connect the two, and then as your baby grows one day everything will just CLICK and all your hard work pays off. TRUST ME. IT WORKS. I taught my daughter this method. It wasn’t easy, but the payoff was well worth it.

I feel like every baby should learn this! This is beautiful ❤️

my mom did this to me and i don’t remember any of it

Definitely a great skill to learn!

My mom taught me sign language when I was a baby, and it was a great skill that helped me communicate with everyone, it will take more than a week, though and you have to be consistent

Cute video BUT BRING BACK WINE MOM PLEASE

This is so pure and adorable omg

So she made no real effort at all then decided he didn't need it. Pointless.

I work in the infant class at a Daycare center and we always teach the children 2 signs a week, it does wonders for their communication. It's so nice to see them using their signs to communicate when they aren't able to speak yet. I would definitely use sign language if I had children of my own, it's so rewarding when you see the children telling you they are hungry or when they want water. It makes it so easy on us to figure out why they are crying. You just have to be consistent with the signs, I've seen children as young as 8 months already signing words such as Eat, More, Please, and All Done. :)

It is so cute the lady is beautiful

That baby just wanted food.

Kinda seemed like she was teaching sign language as a “fad” that she got over real quick. Am I wrong?

Oh my gosh Buzzfeed!!! keep up with incorporating the deaf community and ASL in your content! my heart is so happy

I think the reason this wasn't more successful was in large part because it was added so late in his development. The mom said herself in the video that he tends not to use signs when he's already figured out some other way to communicate his needs, especially when his family continues to respond to his other ways of communicating. That's not a bad thing of course; the most important thing is that he's able to communicate his needs, and the signs were just meant to help him do that. In general, baby sign language is more useful with younger children, who may resort to crying as a primary mode of communication, since they don't have the ability to verbally convey their needs yet. Speech requires a lot of fine motor skills, much more than moving your arms in simplified signs. But this child already had a fairly functional system worked out. Additionally, in this case, partially because of the lack of need, the family wasn't very committed in actually teaching him the signs. Regardless, language acquisition of any kind takes time. This could actually be compared to training a dog to respond to verbal or signed commands. I believe the average dog is about as smart as a two year old human baby, at least in terms of understanding words.

This is too sweet

awww this is precious

Teaching your baby sign language but you guys can't even be assed to make actual closed captioning instead of the auto generated stuff? Kind of missing the point, lol

I taught my little brother when he was one. I'm twelve and he three now. He has learned so quickly, he know all of the colors he knows numbers and words. I try to teach him as much as I can. You can do it. It takes time.

The fact that this is a video about “Sign Language” (baby sign) and doesn’t have captions is SUPER problematic

*I Failed At Teaching Sign Language for a Week

Great video! I wish you would have added captioning on the video for equal access for Deaf individuals to watch this video. I wanted to show my fiancé but it doesn’t have captioning :(

This baby is so freaking cute

He is so cute! Good wishes for his and the family's future!

he is adorable!!

I taught my baby sign language and it helped so much. A lady that worked at the store thought he was deaf.

Keep going. Bless his soul. Amen.

He’s so cute! And I love the mom’s hair

Awww so cute!

Good job guys! ❤️❤️❤️

i think it’s nice to teach babies ASL

HE IS SO CUUUTE

I learned at 2 years old. It’s a great skill for a hearing person. Good for you!

Wow. A whole week. You’re such a dedicated mom

We taught my baby brother sign language and he knows a bunch of words so now we can communicate easier

His hair is amazing!

Love this channel keep on going!!!

i am really happy to a baby learnt sign language as growing up once a long time.this is beatiful

This is great! We need more ASL stuff on Buzzfeed.

By the time he learns to sign some words, he'll be old enough to talk..

Aww he is the cutest 😩💓

wait this is so cute!!

He is such a cute baby!!

Not teaching “sign language” she’s teaching “baby signs” ..

Awww adorable

He's so cute!!!

I LOVED THIS

THAT BABY IS SO FREAKIN CUTE!!!

This is amazing and that baby is smarter then me!!

I’m happy that you’re teaching you’re child this. But just helping you, finished is like if you’re doing jazz hands and shaking them around

When I was 2, i wouldn't want to talk and would get mad if family didn't understand what I wanted. After that, me and my mom spent one year learning sign and i became fluent. I'm now 14 and still remember all of it and use it daily💗

One of the best ways is to say the word verbally along while the sign, that way they get the stimulation with muscle memory and auditory learning!

My son is almost 4 and I decided to teach him sign so far he knows 50 signs I’m so proud of him and it makes me so happy that he’s excited to learn a new .

Everyone should teach their babies to sign! So helpful for all!

So adorableeee

Great parents right there! ❤

we did this with my nephew for a while and it really benefitted him and his ability to communicate.

Children are like dogs...connect every action with a treat...

That will come in handy one day...well done

He's so cuuuute 😙

I work at a daycare and we use sign language with the kids and it’s AWESOME!

aweee this is great :,)

Baby signing time, Rachel and the tree schoolers is amazing!

Such a kyute wittle munchkin!!! He's so cute!!!

Hi ummm i love yalls video and thank you for your hard work

This is amazing and so cute

It's great to see your little one picking up on sign! I actually just made my own video version of how to sign with your child as well :)

Yeah it looked like he got three he did all done, ball, and more; I think you hit those goals keep it up. We all should keep learning anyways.

I taught my baby sister some simple sign language but she doesn’t use it as much now that she talks so clearly

We did this with my little brother when he was a toddler. He caught on quickly and it was so nice for him because he wasn’t getting frustrated when he couldn’t communicate to us. He has speech Apraxia which means that his language skills are behind his developmental skills. He’s doing much better now, and goes to speech therapy a few days a week. I think that Baby sign language is an incredible thing and should get more recognition.

Love this

The baby is so cute 😍

The best moment is when he drops the ball in the food instead of whatever you asked your baby and you still just go like “aww”

We're doing this with my nephew and it really works!! His cousin is deaf so we're hoping he'll eventually be able to communicate with her

this kids hair is my favorite thing about this video

Sweet. Good job. Mine was ASL fluent at 3 years old. It actually a great way to communicate when you're angry too. No yelling or real fighting, just ASL. :) Good for you.

I love her hair!

He is too cute!

I feel like if I ever had kids, sign language would be so useful

My mom did this to me and my brothers when we were babies and apparently it was great

Awesome! ASL is a good skill to learn when you have the time to just like another language.

That baby in the last few seconds: "Hey, what's up you guys. Yes."

If you'd started at birth, he'd have 100+ signs under his belt. WITHOUT having to TAILOR the words.

When the baby throw the ball on the food, I was like 'score!' lol

My cousin is now about 14 months and she has been learning sign language for a while and has been doing very good. It’s a good way since she can’t talk. She now understands most simple words like how to get things or say sorry.

This is good for once and btw the boy is soo cute!

SO FREAKIN CUTE

My son was completely nonverbal, so with the help of specialists, we taught him sign language. He was able to communicate full sentences in sign language by 3.5 years old. It was amazing.

My cousin taught her baby to say thank you so now whenever you give him something he does the sign like 3 times

Well I learnt something about sign language because my best friend has hearing aids so she knows how to clap and say her name

"Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmilf" - Kevin Malone

We started incorporating sign language dvds (Baby Signing Time by Two Little Hands) pretty much as soon as we got home from the hospital. All of a sudden at around 9 months old, my daughter started actually using signs (baby, hat, more, eat, milk, sleep) and talking came very shortly after. At 12 months she was consistently using at least 10 signs and spoke around 50 words. She's now 19 months and speaks in 2-3 word sentences, says at least 160 words, and has increased her signing vocab too. We're working on potty training and Baby Signing Time has a DVD for that too. All in all, the videos really helped in addition to just talking to my child and reading really helped build her vocabulary and verbal communication. Kids are suoer smart, and even if you think they aren't learning something, all of a sudden they start doing it and you see they've been learning all along.

Awwww so cute

Wyatt is so cuuuuute 😍😍

Patty shukla's asl songs are great! My tot sings with asl when she's at school and teachers are impressed with her fancy dancing to the alphabet lol

My mom did this for my sister it made it so much easier to communicate with her and she was able to let us know when she was scared hungry or had went to the bathroom

Wow...very good...this video gave me life

If u keep going with it he will be good at it soon it's easy now cause he is young and he picks it up better

I could sign at ten months before I could speak. My mom taught me to say please and thank you and eat and drink so that we could communicate. It definitely works👍