Our Experience Teaching Our Baby ASL With Signing Time Videos
Welcome to our little corner of the world (wide web)...
Perhaps you've started teaching your baby sign language or you're just considering
how to go about starting.
We hope you find something here - something from our experiences - that helps
you in what you're looking for.
We're not American Sign Language experts.
We're parents. And we're parents of a hearing child.
We don't have the experience of having a deaf child and we don't want to mislead
you into thinking that because we have enjoyed our baby's learning of American
Sign Language that it means that he learned it due to a hearing impairment.
Parents and teachers across the United States are realizing the benefits of teaching
all babies sign language.
It is our personal belief that if you teach a child sign language, that it not be
made up gestures, but that it be an official language.
Yes, each baby will sign 'bird' slightly differently and there is nothing wrong with that, because as
your child grows and watches other children signing ASL (American Sign Language), they will see that
the ASL sign for bird is consistent (but slightly varied based on your child's motor skills).
Advocates of teaching ASL to children, strongly encourage it for babys, for preschoolers, for school-agers, for
children who have developmental disabilities, and for children without developmental disabilities.
In fact, one teacher we know who uses the Signing Time videos in the school classroom told us about how it was
becoming the 'in' thing, the popular thing in her classes to know American Sign Language. She said the kids
that weren't in her class were asking her to show them the Signing Time videos too.
Perhaps she'll get the school psychologist to make ANOTHER recommendation to the school board to pick up multiple
copies of the Signing Time video set. The school psychologist had already enlisted the board's blessing to get the
first set of videos. Apparently she underestimated their impact and popularity with students and teachers.
Regardless, we hope you enjoy visiting our humble website and hope you find something of value in these modest pages.
Warm regards,
The Deam Family
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