Format
Designed to Engage and Delight Your Baby
The My Baby Can Talk™ series is designed to engage and
entertain babies and their parents. This series features beautiful
real world images, delightful puppet shows, colorful toys in
motion and babies communicating with simple gestures; set to
some of the most famous and inspiring classical music. The length
of the production, and therefore the number of signs featured
in each production, is specifically designed to respect the
developmental stage, attention span and intellect of hearing
babies from 10 to 36 months.
Babies
Teaching Babies
My Baby Can Talk™ is the first sign language series for
babies featuring preverbal babies signing all of the words
presented. This demonstrates that babies can, in fact, sign.
It also shows the way in which babies are likely to sign since
most babies use an adapted version of the formal ASL sign.
In addition, babies are naturally inspired by the actions
of other babies. All the signs are presented by an adult as
well to ensure that the most pristine form of each ASL sign
is demonstrated.
Multiple
Visual Images for Each Word
Various images and sounds from different perspectives are presented
for each sign being taught including animate and inanimate objects.
This encourages babies to focus on a pattern for a given word
by helping them to place different images into one category.
For example, the segment for “cat” includes multiple
images of real cats and kittens, a rattle and various toys with
the features of a cat as well as the sound that a cat makes.
Offering multiple visual images, sounds and perspectives helps
babies reach an important milestone in language development;
the application of abstract symbols (signs) to experiences in
the world by placing seemingly different objects into one category,
long before babies can speak.
American
Sign Language
The My Baby Can Talk™ series teaches babies American Sign
Language (ASL) which is a natural and iconic language. This
means that many of the signs look like distinctive parts of
the objects or actions that these signs represent making ASL
easy to learn and remember. ASL serves as the perfect first
language for babies since they can more easily make a connection
between the sign and the object or action it represents while
providing parents a reference source of the language.
Advancing Language Development
The intention of the My Baby Can Talk™ series is to bring
babies through the developmental milestones in acquiring sign
language as a means to communicate as well as encouraging first
spoken words. The first milestone occurs when babies recognize
signing as a form of communication by watching and understanding
hand movements – passive language development. The second
milestone is marked by a baby’s display of their first
sign – active language development. The third milestone,
sometimes referred to as a signing explosion or signing cluster,
occurs after a baby has acquired and is actively using their
first five to ten signs. Once babies have passed through these
three milestones, they are likely to learn additional signs
very rapidly and begin to verbalize as well.
Parent Tutorials & Quick
Reference Signing Cards
We have included an easy and enjoyable tutorial which is a practical
guide to teaching your baby to sign. This tutorial gives you
a few of the most important guidelines to begin to sign with
your baby. The tutorial has been placed at the end of the video,
for ease of access, so that you can choose whether or not to
watch it again and again once you have learned the basic concepts
presented.
Commitment to High Quality
Production
We are committed to producing high quality products for babies
and their parents. Although babies have fewer experiences than
adults, or perhaps because of this, we believe that babies are
very sensitive to the quality of the media that they watch.
Babies prefer clear and colorful images placed into an entertaining
format with high quality sounds and music and aesthetically
coordinated presentation of sight and sound.
