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Baby sign language
My son Alden is 4 in September. He has Apraxia, which is a speech disorder.
Progress has been slow on the speech side according to the therapist, but I feel he is doing great compared to how he was. He had at one point zero understanding. Now his understanding is great for his age, but he has limited vowels and can't pronounce constanants. I thought about signing for babies (like for drink), for Joseph and hopefully Kamron, to help avoid the frustration babies have before they are able to talk. I also plan on starting this with Alden, he does speak but it's not very clear, and we usually guess what he is saying. Have any of you already started signing for babies/toddlers? How did it go? My pack I have ordered says some babies can start signing from 6 months. It's sounds like it's worth a try, as babies that can sign find speech comes more easily. Some people believe signing delays speech, but i'm told this is not the case. -- Andrea mom of - Peter 7, Ellie 5, Alden 3, Joseph 21 mths & little munchie man Kamron 5 weeks! Married to David since 2000. |
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"andrea" wrote in message ... My son Alden is 4 in September. He has Apraxia, which is a speech disorder. Progress has been slow on the speech side according to the therapist, but I feel he is doing great compared to how he was. He had at one point zero understanding. Now his understanding is great for his age, but he has limited vowels and can't pronounce constanants. I thought about signing for babies (like for drink), for Joseph and hopefully Kamron, to help avoid the frustration babies have before they are able to talk. I also plan on starting this with Alden, he does speak but it's not very clear, and we usually guess what he is saying. Have any of you already started signing for babies/toddlers? How did it go? My pack I have ordered says some babies can start signing from 6 months. It's sounds like it's worth a try, as babies that can sign find speech comes more easily. Some people believe signing delays speech, but i'm told this is not the case. My 10 yr old son is autistic, his teachers sign and speak to him and have done so since he was about 3. I don't personally, but it works pretty well. TO keep it from interfering with your sons learning speech, make sure you talk and sign at the same time. If he is 4, he should be old enough to begin some reading. Picture symbols are also pretty good. My son has clear speech, but it took years before his receptive language was above that of a 2 year old. His expressive language is in the 2 1/2 to 3 year old level. What e finds easier than speech, is writing. Once he learned to read,write and spell (age 5) he began writing one word requests and now can write complete sentences. At school the combine it all. So he will have a paper with picture symbols, some including Signs, and below that the typed word. Ex: "I want some juice" will have the signs for I and want then a picture of juice, with the words below. WHen the teacher reads this, she will likely sign it. So he gets the sign language, the pictures, the written word and the oral all at the same time. The sign language is part of a whole language plan. If you can get yours to sign, it will probably ease his frustration a lot. (assuming he is frustrated) Because my son did have speech and could write, we didnt teach him to sign, we chose to have him speak or write. But for those who can do neither, signing can be a miracle! Hope I was a little helpful. |
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Baby sign language
I have been doing the "baby signs" (Not official sign language, but the
"baby-friendly" version) with my 12-month old for the past few months, and I am absolutely shocked at how effective it has been. My daughter took to it almost immediately, and even though she only knows a handful of signs so far, it has been great. She can tell me when she is tired or hungry long before she starts to cry and when #2 is born, I am thinking that the signing will make things less frustrating for everybody. "andrea" wrote in message ... My son Alden is 4 in September. He has Apraxia, which is a speech disorder. Progress has been slow on the speech side according to the therapist, but I feel he is doing great compared to how he was. He had at one point zero understanding. Now his understanding is great for his age, but he has limited vowels and can't pronounce constanants. I thought about signing for babies (like for drink), for Joseph and hopefully Kamron, to help avoid the frustration babies have before they are able to talk. I also plan on starting this with Alden, he does speak but it's not very clear, and we usually guess what he is saying. Have any of you already started signing for babies/toddlers? How did it go? My pack I have ordered says some babies can start signing from 6 months. It's sounds like it's worth a try, as babies that can sign find speech comes more easily. Some people believe signing delays speech, but i'm told this is not the case. -- Andrea mom of - Peter 7, Ellie 5, Alden 3, Joseph 21 mths & little munchie man Kamron 5 weeks! Married to David since 2000. |
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Baby sign language
Claudia was diagnosed with Down syndrome when she was born so we started
sign language pretty soon, by about 6 months, mostly concentrating on using it with her twin brother who would help us practice but also model the signs for her as well. Without having a delay in the fine motor department, he picked up on the signs much more quickly but it did take awhile with her, mostly for that reason. Now she probably uses upwards of 150 signs (her most recent favorite is "chocolate") and is just beginning to use sounds that are kinda sorta understandable; they would probably be completely unintelligible without her signing along with the initial sound. Claudia clearly *wants* to communicate but her lack of muscle tone in her mouth makes it difficult to form the sounds. The only words that she says that are about 100% understandable outside the family are "no", "thank you", "baby", "bubble, and "daddy". But using the sign along with the sound, we can pick up consistent sound combinations that now mean specific words in her own Claudia language like "pizza", "chips", "pretzels", "yogurt", "book", and "draw". Her twin brother has dyspraxia of speech and it has been extremely helpful to have used the sign language with him because of that reason. Of course, my aunt argues that he's speech delayed *because* of having the sign language as a "crutch" but I have to disagree. The most powerful word to start with for a child seems to be "more" which is used by tapping the fingertips together. As a side note, using sign language in public is a great way to get kids to behave without having to verbally reprimand them. Much less embarrassing. And often, if I can't get Claudia to respond to a verbal command, if I pair it with a sign she'll respond much more quickly. Perhaps she is just more visually oriented. Leigh "andrea" wrote in message ... My son Alden is 4 in September. He has Apraxia, which is a speech disorder. Progress has been slow on the speech side according to the therapist, but I feel he is doing great compared to how he was. He had at one point zero understanding. Now his understanding is great for his age, but he has limited vowels and can't pronounce constanants. I thought about signing for babies (like for drink), for Joseph and hopefully Kamron, to help avoid the frustration babies have before they are able to talk. I also plan on starting this with Alden, he does speak but it's not very clear, and we usually guess what he is saying. Have any of you already started signing for babies/toddlers? How did it go? My pack I have ordered says some babies can start signing from 6 months. It's sounds like it's worth a try, as babies that can sign find speech comes more easily. Some people believe signing delays speech, but i'm told this is not the case. -- Andrea mom of - Peter 7, Ellie 5, Alden 3, Joseph 21 mths & little munchie man Kamron 5 weeks! Married to David since 2000. |
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is there a place where i can pick this up online? so i can try it with my
son?? -- Shelly Mommy to Zachariah January 24, 2003 "Leigh Menconi" wrote in message thlink.net... Claudia was diagnosed with Down syndrome when she was born so we started sign language pretty soon, by about 6 months, mostly concentrating on using it with her twin brother who would help us practice but also model the signs for her as well. Without having a delay in the fine motor department, he picked up on the signs much more quickly but it did take awhile with her, mostly for that reason. Now she probably uses upwards of 150 signs (her most recent favorite is "chocolate") and is just beginning to use sounds that are kinda sorta understandable; they would probably be completely unintelligible without her signing along with the initial sound. Claudia clearly *wants* to communicate but her lack of muscle tone in her mouth makes it difficult to form the sounds. The only words that she says that are about 100% understandable outside the family are "no", "thank you", "baby", "bubble, and "daddy". But using the sign along with the sound, we can pick up consistent sound combinations that now mean specific words in her own Claudia language like "pizza", "chips", "pretzels", "yogurt", "book", and "draw". Her twin brother has dyspraxia of speech and it has been extremely helpful to have used the sign language with him because of that reason. Of course, my aunt argues that he's speech delayed *because* of having the sign language as a "crutch" but I have to disagree. The most powerful word to start with for a child seems to be "more" which is used by tapping the fingertips together. As a side note, using sign language in public is a great way to get kids to behave without having to verbally reprimand them. Much less embarrassing. And often, if I can't get Claudia to respond to a verbal command, if I pair it with a sign she'll respond much more quickly. Perhaps she is just more visually oriented. Leigh "andrea" wrote in message ... My son Alden is 4 in September. He has Apraxia, which is a speech disorder. Progress has been slow on the speech side according to the therapist, but I feel he is doing great compared to how he was. He had at one point zero understanding. Now his understanding is great for his age, but he has limited vowels and can't pronounce constanants. I thought about signing for babies (like for drink), for Joseph and hopefully Kamron, to help avoid the frustration babies have before they are able to talk. I also plan on starting this with Alden, he does speak but it's not very clear, and we usually guess what he is saying. Have any of you already started signing for babies/toddlers? How did it go? My pack I have ordered says some babies can start signing from 6 months. It's sounds like it's worth a try, as babies that can sign find speech comes more easily. Some people believe signing delays speech, but i'm told this is not the case. -- Andrea mom of - Peter 7, Ellie 5, Alden 3, Joseph 21 mths & little munchie man Kamron 5 weeks! Married to David since 2000. |
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Baby sign language
"andrea" wrote in message ...
It's sounds like it's worth a try, as babies that can sign find speech comes more easily. Some people believe signing delays speech, but i'm told this is not the case. I'm not sure what the exact research is on whether it delays speech, but even if it does that's not necessarily a problem. Up to a certain age (I think around when they start school) children growing up bilingual are behind monolingual children in each language. But eventually they catch up. And I think it's easy to see the benefit of being able to sign if spoken language is limited (or have a second spoken language) -- so even if they are a bit behind for a couple of years, it's probably well worth the tradeoff. Haven't done it yet, but I absolutely intend to sign with the Bug -- I've twice taken introductory American Sign Language classes, though never gotten any further than that. I also fantasize about speaking lots of Spanish or French around her so she grows up bilingual, but I doubt that'll ever get past fantasy. Good luck with Alden. Kate and Bug June 8 2003 |
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Baby sign language
www.signingbaby.com
www.babysigns.com www.deafsign.com All the above give baby signing advice. I work with deaf children so if I ever get pregnant I will definetly be teaching my babies sign from birth. "Shelly" wrote in message .. . is there a place where i can pick this up online? so i can try it with my son?? -- Shelly Mommy to Zachariah January 24, 2003 "Leigh Menconi" wrote in message thlink.net... Claudia was diagnosed with Down syndrome when she was born so we started sign language pretty soon, by about 6 months, mostly concentrating on using it with her twin brother who would help us practice but also model the signs for her as well. Without having a delay in the fine motor department, he picked up on the signs much more quickly but it did take awhile with her, mostly for that reason. Now she probably uses upwards of 150 signs (her most recent favorite is "chocolate") and is just beginning to use sounds that are kinda sorta understandable; they would probably be completely unintelligible without her signing along with the initial sound. Claudia clearly *wants* to communicate but her lack of muscle tone in her mouth makes it difficult to form the sounds. The only words that she says that are about 100% understandable outside the family are "no", "thank you", "baby", "bubble, and "daddy". But using the sign along with the sound, we can pick up consistent sound combinations that now mean specific words in her own Claudia language like "pizza", "chips", "pretzels", "yogurt", "book", and "draw". Her twin brother has dyspraxia of speech and it has been extremely helpful to have used the sign language with him because of that reason. Of course, my aunt argues that he's speech delayed *because* of having the sign language as a "crutch" but I have to disagree. The most powerful word to start with for a child seems to be "more" which is used by tapping the fingertips together. As a side note, using sign language in public is a great way to get kids to behave without having to verbally reprimand them. Much less embarrassing. And often, if I can't get Claudia to respond to a verbal command, if I pair it with a sign she'll respond much more quickly. Perhaps she is just more visually oriented. Leigh "andrea" wrote in message ... My son Alden is 4 in September. He has Apraxia, which is a speech disorder. Progress has been slow on the speech side according to the therapist, but I feel he is doing great compared to how he was. He had at one point zero understanding. Now his understanding is great for his age, but he has limited vowels and can't pronounce constanants. I thought about signing for babies (like for drink), for Joseph and hopefully Kamron, to help avoid the frustration babies have before they are able to talk. I also plan on starting this with Alden, he does speak but it's not very clear, and we usually guess what he is saying. Have any of you already started signing for babies/toddlers? How did it go? My pack I have ordered says some babies can start signing from 6 months. It's sounds like it's worth a try, as babies that can sign find speech comes more easily. Some people believe signing delays speech, but i'm told this is not the case. -- Andrea mom of - Peter 7, Ellie 5, Alden 3, Joseph 21 mths & little munchie man Kamron 5 weeks! Married to David since 2000. |
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Baby sign language
andrea wrote: I thought about signing for babies (like for drink), for Joseph and hopefully Kamron, to help avoid the frustration babies have before they are able to talk. I also plan on starting this with Alden, he does speak but it's not very clear, and we usually guess what he is saying. Have any of you already started signing for babies/toddlers? How did it go? We had planned to do it with our daughter but were pretty lax with it. She picked up a couple of signs around 10 months. At 14 months we bought her the signing time videos and her signing exploded. These are great videos. They also really help with her vocabulary. At 25 months, these are still her favorites to watch (they are videos of kids doing signs, she's fascinated by them). You can find them at www.signingtime.com Mary |
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We started signing with both of our boys early on and saw no delay in
their language. If anything, we think it helped them. The key is to make sure you are always saying the sign when you make it and to introduce them one at a time. We started making the signs to them at around 6 months. We started with More, Drink, Eat and Milk. Next, we taught Help, Yes, No, Mom, Dad, Dog, Please, and Thank You. We taught ASL instead of making up our own signs. It just didn't seem to make sense to make up something that no one else would understand. We found that we ran into a lot of people that knew even just a little bit of ASL. As they got older, teaching sign language was more of a novelty than a tool, but they were still interested, so we created a calendar to teach them a sign a day. Usually we had a theme each week – fruits, weather, the next holiday, etc. The calendar included the printed word and a picture, so we used it as a reading/spelling/vocabulary tool as well. We slacked off after awhile, but with baby #3 on the way, we're planning to pick it up again. Our oldest often brings just his hands to show-n-tell and teaches the class some signs. We have given signing books to several friends as baby shower gifts and they have really loved them. Our favorite is "Sign With Your Baby", by Joseph Garcia. http://www.sign2me.com/default6.htm. There are also some websites that have QuickTime videos of the signs which is a great way to really see what it is supposed to look like. Try http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm I agree with the comment about being a great tool for communicating in public. The "toilet" sign is especially handy in church when you'd rather they not announce their need to go to the whole congregation. It also works well across a crowded room. Good luck! ~ Sher, due with boy #3 9/27/03 |
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