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• Vision:  To become a leader in early childhood development domain catering specifically to the emotional and intellectual needs of the child.
• Mission: To enhance quality of relationship parents have with their children through opening alternative channels of communication.
• Values: Trust, Integrity, Team Work

In 1982, Drs. Linda Acredolo and Susan Goodwyn discovered that babies between the ages of 10 and 24 months were spontaneously using simple gestures to represent words they weren't yet able to say. They might sniff for "flower," pant for "dog," or flap their arms for "bird." What would happen, Drs. Acredolo and Goodwyn wondered, if parents just helped the process along?

Thus began a major breakthroughin infant-parent communication called the Baby Signsﾮ 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, much of it funded by the National Institutes of Health, 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.

Their ground-breaking book, Baby Signs: How to Talk to Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk, was published in 1996 and quickly became a bestseller (over 400,000 copies soldin the U.S. alone and translated into 14 foreign languages). The Baby Signsﾮ Program has been featured on national television, including the Oprah Winfrey Show, NBC Today, ABC 20/20, Dateline NBC, CBS Morning Show, ABC Good Morning America, and NBC Nightly News. Articles about the Baby Signsﾮ Program have also appeared in leading newspapers and in national magazines including Newsweek, US News and World Report, Child, Parents and Parenting.

In July 2000, Drs. Acredolo and Goodwyn published a second book for parents, Baby Minds: Brain-Building Games Your Baby Will Love, with Bantam Books, a Division of Random House. This book also became a best-selling parenting title and has been translated into eight foreign languages. Baby Minds has been featured on NBC Nightly News, ABC Good Morning America and in the recently-aired PBS Child Development series produced by the Dr. Benjamin Spock Foundation.

Drs. Acredolo and Goodwyn's third book, Baby Hearts: A Guide to Giving Your Baby an Emotional Head Start, was published by Bantam Books in June 2005. Baby Hearts focuses on new research that reveals the rich, emotional lives of young babies and teaches parents ways to cultivate their child's emotional intelligence. With the completion of Baby Hearts, Drs. Acredolo and Goodwyn provide parents with a comprehensive approach to fostering their child's social, emotional and intellectual development and laying strong foundations for their child's future success.

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Dr. Acredolo and Dr. Goodwyn are co-founders of Baby Signs, Inc. and its educational division, the Baby Signs Institute. Both organizations are devoted to helping parents throughout the world experience the many positive benefits that signing with infants can bring.

Linda Acredolo, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of California at Davis, is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of child development. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Bucknell University, she earned her Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development. Linda is a Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. She is a member of Parents magazine advisory board. She currently lives with her husband in Woodland, California.

Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Child Development at the California State University at Stanislaus, received her Masters of Science with First Honors from the University of London and her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Davis. Dr. Goodwyn is considered an expert in the field of child language development and has an outstanding research record, having served as Project Director and Co-Principle Investigator for several longitudinal research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Kellogg Foundation. She currently lives with her husband in Vacaville, California.