Teach Your Tot To Sign ─ The Parent's Guide To American Sign Language

This easy-to-use guide provides parents and teachers the opportunity to teach more than 500 basic American Sign Language (ASL) signs to their infants, toddlers, and young children. Hearing children, deaf children, and children with special needs can benefit from learning the elementary signs featured within. Recognizing the need for a book that can be used both at home and in the classroom, author Stacy A. Thompson offers fundamental signs of great appeal to young children and concise instructions on how to sign, including the critical importance of facial expression.
Teach Your Tot to Sign anticipates all of the common interests of young children - food, pets, planes, trains, cars, and boats, games, holidays, vegetables, family. Reflecting children's endless curiosity, the vocabulary chosen includes signs for baby, broken, clown, dinosaur, firefighter, gentle, hot, hurt, ketchup, pacifier, rooster, sad, spaghetti, wagon, water, wet, you're welcome, and even a sign for McDonald's.

\Stacy A. Thompson, a graduate of the Deaf Studies program at California State University Northridge, owns Signing Tots, in Simi Valley, CA, where she teaches parents and educators how to sign with hearing and deaf children.