Posted by
yuy
16 yrs ago
I have a 8 months old baby. I have heard and read about Baby Sign Language. I like the idea of it. What is your comments and experience. I found out that YMCA has courses? What about DVD or books, are there good ones out there? I am working, so I do not have to much time attending a course.
Thanks for sharing your comments and advise.
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There are probably both good and bad reports about baby sign. We never taught our little girl baby sign, but she started making up a lot of signs that are clearly understandable and allowed her to communicate quite a bit. Now at 18 months while she understands very complex language she uses almost no words other than her signs. Not sure there is a connection and it does not bother me, just an observation that sign may delay somewhat speaking.
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Friend who works with the deaf is very scathing about parents of hearing kids using baby sign language instead of (as she sees it) teaching their kids to talk. She says if you're going to do it, do it properly so at least you can communicate with deaf kids, otherwise it's just a novelty for middle class parents & she feels it does delay speech. Plus someone's making a lot of money out of it!
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I know of a mom who started her son on baby sign language when he was just a few months old. He became so good at it that he's now seeing a speech therapist at the age of 4. Reason? He was able to communicate efficiently with signs and didn't see the need to learn to verbalize himself.
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I know of a mom who started her son on baby sign language when he was just a few months old. He became so good at it that he's now seeing a speech therapist at the age of 4. Reason? He was able to communicate efficiently with signs and didn't see the need to learn to verbalize himself.
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Our experience was great. We started watching DVDs with our daughter when she was about four or five months old, and would use the signs when we were out and about (we would also say the words as well so she would see and hear them).
She started using her first sign ("more") when she was about eight months old but, importantly, used to try and say the word (I say "try" because at eight months is was more like gibberish). But as she got a bit older, she used more and more signs and more and more language, and now she just doesn't shut up!
We figure learning sign language helped her development because she's talking far more than her peers (like I said, some times I just wish she'd ...). Maybe she's just a natural talker but I can't say the experience was bad in any way for us.
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