Welcome!
This blog is our effort to introduce our friends, family, and any who might be interested in understanding the benefits and value of teaching our littlest people how to speak through ASL (Sign).
Many people have questioned our use of Sign, concerned that our daughter will not speak as soon or as well as other children her age; she is hearing. She is 17 months old and has around 400 signs, and about 30 spoken words (and often the words are spoken simultaneously with the sign). I don’t know what the expected average is for a 17 month old female, but we’re very pleased with her ability to communicate.
Within this blog, I will detail the signs she is learning, the sequence and grouping patterns she demonstrates, and the techniques we use to teach her (and us) along the way.
We have learned right along with Cecily, and before long, we may all just have a second language! Our intention, unlike many who only use signs for a short while before the child speaks, we will continue use of the language into fluency, permanently.
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If you have any questions or would like to just speak with us about our ASL journey, please feel free to contact us. And as Cecily gives us the opportunities, we will upload video segments of her signing in context to YouTube and link to them from this blog.
