Doctors who've been studying the effects of teaching sign language to babies say the practice can improve the bond that exists between babies and their parents. "What we know about infants in ...

Six-month-old Jane McCullough "signs" right along with her grandparents. Jane McCullough, a 6-month-old baby, has watched her parents and grandparents, who are both deaf, communicate using ...

Sign-exposed babies produced two distinct types of rhythmic hand activity, a low-frequency type at 1 hertz and a high-frequency one at 2.5 hertz. The speech-exposed babies had only high-frequency ...

Babies babble, starting at about seven months, not only with their mouths, but also with their hands in a natural form of sign language, researchers have found. The study, published in today's ...

You can introduce sign language at any time. Some babies begin to mimic signs as young as six months old, with the average infant picking up signs by eight months. Children will naturally switch ...