A lot of people ask me if they should use American Sign Language with their hearing baby. If their baby can hear, why promote a language geared towards deaf people? Won't it just delay their actual speech?
I thought the same thing. I wondered if they may have a delay in spoken language if I taught them baby sign language.
In both of my daughters' cases, they signed about 40 signs by the time they were 2 and they also spoke about 40 words. Now, some of the signs and words were the same, but not many, so they ended up with a total vocabulary of about 60-70 "words". They both talked at 2 years of age, which although it was not early, it was not late either.
It simply allows babies to communicate before their vocal chords are sophisticated anough to vocalize their needs and wants. It really works!
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