about sign babies

About 10 years ago, Nancy Cadjan saw a program discussing why to teach baby sign language. She began
doing her own research and reading everything she could on signing with babies and even introduced her
friends to the information on signing.

Nancy's Own Experience

When Nancy's son was 8 months old, she began signing with him. By 10 months, Alex was signing back MILK
and EAT. By 12 months, he was signing APPLE, BANANA, and MORE. By 14 months, he signed over 40 signs
including things like SLEEP, MOON, STARS, PLAY, CAT, DOG, PLEASE, THANK YOU, and so forth.

Then, an amazing thing happened when Alex reached 16 months. He began to speak all the words he knew
how to sign. He knew how to speak over 100 words! This is amazing when you consider that most 14-month
olds can say 5-10 words.

And if that was not enough, Alex decided to learn the alphabet and numbers 1-9 on his own. He had seen them
on a Sesame Street video when he was sick and then stood up and went to the fridge where a few letter
magnets were and said, "A, H, C, X!" That was the start.

By 18 months, Alex could say over 200 words and started putting multiple word sentences together. Alex mixed
words and signs to express himself. His first 4-word sentence was "Drink go fall down" when his sippy cup fell
off the high chair.

Creating Sign Babies Flash Cards

Through her years of research, Nancy has tested and tried several different signing programs for babies,
parents, and for general audiences. In her research, she realized that there was little quality printed materials to
assist parents and babies. Because of her previous experience with publishing, Nancy decided to create Sign
Babies Flash Cards. These are the FIRST and ONLY ILLUSTRATED sign language flash cards created with
parents and babies in mind.