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Anyone do sign language with their baby?

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by burritos, Jun 5, 2006.

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  1. efusco

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DaveinOlyWA @ Jul 31 2007, 11:23 AM) [snapback]488102[/snapback]</div>
    You show her the sign....
    "Ry, do you want Milk (showing the sign/doing it yourself)?"

    Then you take her hand in yours and physically help her make the sign for milk, praise her for the good job then give her the milk.

    Basicly you're just moving her hand/hands for her so she gets the sense of how the signs feel and that you desire for her to do it as well.

    Don't get discouraged, you're early and you'll be thrilled once it "clicks" for her what all that funky stuff you guys keep doing with your hands can do and the power it gives her to get what she wants. It is important to be as consistant as possible and even a little insistant sometimes so that she can't get what she wants with crying and tantrums....at a minimum force her with hand-over-hand before giving her the milk, food, whatever.
     
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  2. DaveinOlyWA

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    ohhh ok... havent been taking his hand. we just sign to him while talking to him. he definitely watches what we do and we can see him making an effort to verbalize what we are saying as well.

    very cool, thanks for the tip!
     
    #22 DaveinOlyWA, Jul 31, 2007
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    Oops, sorry about calling him a her....
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Jul 31 2007, 09:39 AM) [snapback]488110[/snapback]</div>
    ahh no biggie.... he didnt seem to notice anyway
     
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    We started from day one. We started getting the milk sign at month 12. Now a days at month 15 when he really likes something, you can show him the sign once or twice and he'll repeat it. If he doesn't like something and you try to teach him the sign, he'll look at you like you're stupid.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(burritos @ Jul 30 2007, 03:31 PM) [snapback]487638[/snapback]</div>
    First baby? With our first we marked all the milestones, and worried about each one our daughter was "late" with, and secretly thought how smart our daughter was when she exceeded the expectations. My wife was really frustrated with the "giving up of the pacifier" that books put at a certain age, and she asked our pediatrician about it. He said to check and see if any of the kids in the fourth grade had pacifiers around their necks. The message was not to worry too much about a timeline; be aware so you can do any intervention you need to do, but we are all wonderfully unique and different from each other. Averages are only averages.

    My grandson signs, and has delayed speech. They don't think its related to the signing, as his father also had delayed speech (he didn't speak until three!) They have a range of tests they do, comparing the sounds he can make against the averages, and providing games ... like blowing on a tissue to make the "ba" sound. There's also a test for a certain condition they check for ... I've forgotten its name ... but he doesn't have it. And boys are often slower developmentally than girls (my wife claims it holds true throughout life).

    I wasn't sure about signing, but it works, and merely formalizes what parents have always done, communicate with their kids.
     
    #26 fshagan, Aug 1, 2007
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