Garcia book "Sign with your Baby"

[Doug McLean]

In message <852568B1.0061FEBD.00 at notes-mta.dragonsys.com>,
Mark_Mandel at Dragonsys.com writes
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>Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:52:50 +0100
>From: Robin Allott <RMAllott at percepp.demon.co.uk>
>Subject: Gestural equivalence of language
>
>A recent book by Joseph Garcia "Sign with your Baby" describes a
>successful method through which babies as young as 8 months can sign
>in reply to signing or speech by their parents; videotape and TV
>demonstrations are most impressive. Apart from the practical benefit
>for the parents and the infants of being able to communicate more
>effectively, babysigning is of considerable theoretical interest for
>language acquisition and for seeing language and gesture as the
>products of a single brain system, a topic for the April Gesture
>Conference in Oporto.
>
>http://www.percepp.demon.co.uk/oporto.htm
>Robin Allott   email: RMAllott at percepp.demon.co.uk
>               http://www.percepp.demon.co.uk
>               tel/fax: +44 1323 492300

There is a BSL version now, which includes a PAL video and an additional
BSL 'Dictionary' and guide. Available from Forest, who are the UK
distributors.

Doug
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