Sign Language Motivator Cards
30 Starter Signs Based On Early Developing Word Categories
The encouragement of gestural communication in very young children can facilitate the learning of spoken language, both in “hearing” children who are moving along a typical progression of development as well as those with (or at risk of) developmental delays.
The signs included here consist of nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, pronouns, and social function words (word categories that are commonly the earliest to develop in the English language), but the best signs are those that represent words that are commonly used in your family!
The enclosed 30 instructive images are based on American Sign Language (ASL) and are intended to get you started! beginning ideas of signs you might start to model to your infant or toddler.
Your Instructor
Ayelet Marinovich is a pediatric speech-language pathologist specializing in work with pre-verbal and emergently communicative infants and toddlers, and has worked with hundreds of families all over the world to provide parent education and promote interactions to support early development. She is the mother of an infant and toddler.
Ayelet is the creator and producer of Learn With Less, a collection of online resources for families and educators of infants and toddlers of all developmental levels.