Understanding your baby’s needs is very important and sometimes frustrating for parents and caregivers alike. Using baby signs helps parents and caregivers to understand what your baby wants or needs.

Baby Signs® was developed in 1982, by Drs. Linda Acredolo and Susan Goodwyn who discovered that babies were spontaneously using simple gestures to represent words they were not yet able to say. They might sniff for “flower,” pant for “dog,” or flap their arms for “bird.” They began a major breakthrough in infant-parent communication called the Baby Signs® Program – a natural baby sign language that allows babies and their parents to use simple signs to communicate important things – like being hungry or thirsty, hot or cold, afraid or sad – often a full year before babies could otherwise speak.

Through two decades of research and continued development, Drs. Acredolo and Goodwyn have
demonstrated that their Baby Signs® Program has dramatic benefits, including decreasing frustration
for babies and parents, enriching the parent-child bond, boosting emotional development, helping babies talk sooner– even raising IQ.

We are proud to offer this excellent program to our babies and parents. Our caregivers not only
use the Baby Signs® program throughout the day, we assist and encourage parents to learn
and use it at home, thereby providing yet another connection for the babies between home
and Cornerstone Learning Centers, their home away from home.