"My first baby signs teaches basic signs that provide families with a way to communicate before babies can talk at all. The picture book format keeps the learning fun while introducing over 40 key American Sign Language (ASL) signs in context -- each with their own visual and written guide. Your little one will learn to express their needs, wants, and frustrations with simple gestures -- and you will understand them better."--Back cover.

What makes Mary so marvelous? She can speak with her hands and her voice, and listen with her eyes and with tiny computers hidden inside her head. This picture book helps introduce children to Deafness and the process of getting cochlear implants. It emphasizes Mary's love for sign language and Deaf culture, and how her surgery was a way of gaining greater access to the world. The book helps familiarize siblings or classmates with Deafness, and includes...