Benefits+of+Signing+With+Your+Child

"Benefits of Signing With Your Child." //Signing Time//. Two Little Hands Productions, 2010. Web. 3 Nov. 2010. [].


 * "ASL stimulates learning through different senses."
 * "Sign language is a blessing for children that are 'visual', 'spatial' or 'tactile learners.'"
 * "Knowing a few signs can give your child the confidence to engage and interact with a deaf child rather than both children feeling awkward and helpless."


 * "If you are going to make the effort to teach and reinforce signs for communication purposes, it makes sense to use signs that are part of a living language that have meaning to the hundreds of thousands of ASL users."
 * "Additionally, your child's caregivers (Doctors, preschools, daycare centers, and elementary schools) are far more likely to use ASL than to try and learn individual 'made up' signs for each child for whom they care."
 * "Hearing children that start out as 'baby signers' can comfortably transition into communication with deaf children and adults, and take advantage of other ASL materials (videos, ASL playgroups, etc...).
 * "They have also laid a foundation for the study of ASL as a second language later in their academic careers."
 * "All of this is possible by simply using real ASL signs instead of made up or adapted signs."
 * "And finally, many of our Deaf customers have pointed out that made up signs run the risk of actually "saying" something unintended in ASL, leading to potentially humorous if not embarrassing situations."
 * "Most parents that sign with their babies talk about an unexplainable bond that is felt when their child communicates so early!"
 * "Many tantrums and the "Terrible Twos" are directly linked to frustration about communication."
 * "There is less frustration when your child can augment their communication skills with signs that both of you can understand."