Infants+Use+Sign+Language+To+Communicate+At+Ohio+State+School

"Infants Use Sign Language To Communicate At Ohio State School." //Science Daily: News & Articles in Science, Health, Environment & Technology//. N.p., 3 Feb. 1999. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. [].


 * "One of the concerns parents had was that children wouldn’t learn to talk as quickly if they already knew the signs."
 * "'We absolutely haven’t seen that at all,' Whaley said."
 * “'What we found is that their first spoken words are usually words they had already learned to sign. As the children learn to speak more words, their use of signs fades away.'"
 * "Another intriguing finding of the pilot study is that girls 'overwhelmingly use signs more often than boys,' she said."
 * "'When we started the program, the oldest children in our classroom were a group of boys. We found that they used signs, but not nearly as much as the girls who were younger. This is something we want to study further.'"