popularity of baby signs in other countries?

[Marcel Giezen]

Hi Ruth,

Courses are offered in the Netherlands for several years now, but not on a
very large scale I believe (see http://www.babygebaren.com/babygebaren for a
Dutch-English website). In addition to the UK, they mention Germany and
Belgium as other EU countries where it¹s available. I remember it got some
attention in the Dutch media a few years ago, but I don¹t know how popular
it is...

Kind regards,
Marcel Giezen

Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience
San Diego State University


On 1/5/12 8:32 AM, "Mats Andrén" <mats.andren at ling.lu.se> wrote:

>    This is just from my own experience so I don't know how well this
> corresponds to reality. Nevertheless, I am a gesture researcher with an
> interest in children's gestures, so there has been plenty of occasions where I
> have (informally) discussed gesture and gesture-like phenomena with Swedish
> parents.
>  
>  It seems to me that it is at least relatively common for Swedish parents to
> be familiar with the general idea although they rarely seem to be aware of the
> term "baby sign" (or some Swedish equivalent) as such. Actually using baby
> sign seems very rare however, although it is not entirely non-existent. I have
> only encountered two children whose parents have told me they have attempted
> to use baby sign in one form or another at home. One of these two children is
> visually impaired, plus some other issues, so in that case there was some
> additional motivation for trying to use baby sign (as well as other methods
> that would supposedly enhance communication/development).
>  
>  Best regards,
>  Mats Andrén
>  
>  On 2012-01-05 17.17, Hester Duffy wrote:
>>   Baby-sign seems to be fairly popular in the UK; in the BabyLabs i've worked
>> at, a lot of mums mention it, and there are classes all over the country (see
>> http://www.singandsign.com/classes/map.php). I first heard of it from parents
>> about ten years ago, and it's still going strong.
>>  
>>  H
>>  
>>  
>> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Ruth Tincoff <ruth.tincoff at bucknell.edu>
>> wrote:
>>  
>>>  Hello all,
>>>  
>>>  I am curious if families in countries other than the US are
>>>  enthusiastic about the baby signs activities/videos etc, or
>>>  suggestions on where to look to find that out. Has this mainly been a
>>>  US phenomenon? An English-speaking families one?
>>>  
>>>  Thanks for your thoughts.
>>>  Ruth
>>>  
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