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Sign it, Don't Whine it offers a fun learning environment in our workshops, presentations, and classes, where parents and caregivers will learn to teach their little ones to communicate manually long before they are able to express themselves verbally.

 It’s about...                                                                                      
    Communication! How precious these early months are, yet how frustrating (for us and baby) it is to play the guessing game and still sometimes not know what our little ones want. Well, just call it quits... on the guessing game, that is! Through Dr. Joseph Garcia’s research, he has discovered that infants can begin communication as early as 8 months using signs. The motor skills necessary for verbal communication take many more months to develop!

   Empowerment!  Why wait?! Giving your children a means to express their needs and interests teaches them that they can be involved by initiating conversation. Signing also teaches cause and effect- “When I sign milk, Mommy gives me milk.” 

   Love! By teaching infants sign language through consistent association with their daily activities, we can reduce the amount of communication frustration and strengthen the bond we share with our little      
ones by helping them communicate needs such as hungry, more, all done, hurt (even where it hurts), and many other expressions of need or interest. Infants are intelligent, and helping to feed their minds in this way is a very fun, easy, and rewarding experience that you and your children can enjoy into adulthood.                                    

    Consistency! The signing method used in our program is American Sign Language (ASL), the third most popular language in the United States. By teaching ASL to your little ones, rather than creating gestures of your own or modifying ASL gestures, you are giving them a common basis for learning a second language that they can build upon as they grow. Learning ASL not only allows your child to communicate with other ASL users, but it also improves your infant’s native language development by helping them learn vocabulary conceptually.