Baby’s Language Development, Six months
Six months. Your baby may now be using consonant-vowel combinations. It’s quite possible that he has discovered his mirror reflection and is probably having conversations with himself. Your baby’s language is becoming much more precise.
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Every parent can find it frustrating when their baby cries and they can’t quite work out why. Of course, a little parental instinct, common sense and a lot of luck has gone a long way for countless years, but now eager mums, dads and carers are queuing in their thousands for classes in the newly popular means of communication: baby signing.
The technique, originally explored by American child development researcher Joseph Garcia, enables hearing children as young as six months to use simple symbols and gestures to communicate their basic needs and emotions with their parents. If your baby wants his teddy, needs to go to bed or simply feels like telling you he’s seen a bird in the sky, there are simple signs with which he can now communicate it to you.
Whether you think it’s a fad, a bit of fun or an essential development tool, it looks like baby signing is here to stay, with classes springing up all over the UK and even dictionaries of key signs on sale. Advocates of the system sing signing’s benefits, claiming it reduces babies’ frustration, strengthens the bond between child and parent and encourages a child to speak earlier than usual. Some even claim that signing leads to a higher than average literacy level and a wider vocabulary.
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