Marblesoft and Talking with Baby have teamed up again with The Christmas Story. This supplemental app in the Talking with Baby series by Marsha Peterson is a story about the first Christmas to help parents and children learn sign language.

It’s never too early to teach your baby or toddler about Christmas. Create wonderful memories of each Christmas season by sharing this special story with your little one. You may find ASL words already learned from the other Talking with Baby stories that you can also use.

Children can communicate with signing long before their speech physiology is fully developed, and children with speech or hearing impairments can more easily communicate with signing.

The parent or older sibling reads the story to the child. Each story contains a core vocabulary of words that are highlighted in color with a visual symbol of the word in American Sign Language (ASL). Tapping the symbol brings up a full screen video of the ASL sign being performed by a Deaf and Hard of Hearing teacher. Concentrating on a few words per day, the parent and child learn the signs in a very short time.

Before you know it, you'll experience the joy of Talking with Baby!