Baby Sign language workshop for Nannies/Aupair

Baby and Nanny can have meaningful communication before baby is talking and parents can learn to understand their baby.

Why teach a nanny/Aupair to sign?

• Parents are working full time
• Nanny has the time to teach baby to sign
• Easy process which can be part of babies daily routine
• Promotes bilingualism, sign language forms the bridge between the word and it’s meaning, it’s the same whether the nanny speaks Afrikaans/English/Xhosa
• Parents can track babies development    
• Nanny is taught activities to stimulate babies language development
• Signing to a baby is fun
  

What does the workshop entail?

• Once off nanny workshop
• duration: 2 hours
• venue: Educare (northern & southern suburbs)
  

The workshop covers:

• Background on Baby Sign Language
• Why use South African Sign Language (SASL) ?
• Benefits of Signing With Babies
• Dispelling the Myth
• Categories of signs
• Baby Hands Steps to Signing
• Signs to begin with
• Transition from signing to spoken language
• Baby Signing Games
• We teach games and activities to encourage speech and language development. These would include how to read a story, sing a song while incorporating the signs.