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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #165 on: December 13, 2012, 12:42:53 pm »
shall i just google or does anyone have any decent websites I can look at? x
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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #166 on: December 13, 2012, 14:26:13 pm »
This is a good site if you want BSL http://www.britishsignlanguage.com/

Or this one is fun but based on Makaton http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/activity/baby-signs

Some people just pick the easiest sign for them and don't worry about whether it is BSL or ASL or makaton etc.
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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #167 on: December 14, 2012, 01:20:28 am »
Ladies, do you get this? Audrey's whining (for example), I ask her if she wants something to EAT - she signs EAT back at me but I've no idea if she's actually hungry or just 'parroting' the signs back at me, yk?





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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #168 on: December 21, 2012, 13:44:03 pm »
Yeah can you take her in the kitchen perhaps and let her point to what she wants?
 
Colby has started making up his own signs by acting stuff out. He pretends to wipe his nose when he has a runny one and wants a tissue.
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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #169 on: January 27, 2013, 04:31:40 am »
DD seems to sign eat NON STOP!!!! and I'm not sure if she's really hungry?  honestly she signs it all the time!!!!!  She has well over 50 signs and so communicates well but the eat sign must be her favorite.  I'm also not sure if she try to sign drink sometimes? 
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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #170 on: January 27, 2013, 08:25:22 am »
Maybe sometimes when she signs eat, she actually means she's thirsty...? Or maybe she just likes her food ;D  Awesome that she has so many signs!
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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #171 on: January 27, 2013, 12:18:21 pm »
DS used to sign eat for drink all the time! Every time he signed eat I would offer him his bottle of water and usually it ended with that. If he continued to ask for food then I gave him something small, like a piece of apple.
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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #172 on: January 27, 2013, 13:57:27 pm »
50 signs is great.

Colby has a cold right now and has invented his own sign for Vicks vapour rub :) he uses his index finger to draw a circle at the top of his chest as if rubbing in Vicks. So cute.
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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #173 on: January 27, 2013, 14:11:01 pm »
Aww Ali that's lovely. Love it when they make up their own signs! Hope he feels better soon!





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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #174 on: January 27, 2013, 14:55:28 pm »
Thanks Anna. He's nearly over it now thanks.

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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #175 on: January 28, 2013, 18:39:23 pm »
Colby has a cold right now and has invented his own sign for Vicks vapour rub :) he uses his index finger to draw a circle at the top of his chest as if rubbing in Vicks. So cute.
Just reading this, Ali... I love it.  Made up signs are so great! ;D

Graham has finally got his own version of 'help'.  It was an easy one for Claire, but he's never gotten the hang of it, just always pointed and grunted (and he probably never needed to do more than that, because Claire will often just help him).  Anyway, he holds his thumb and moves his hands up and down all the while saying, "HEP!" :D



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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #176 on: January 28, 2013, 19:45:08 pm »
Ah I love it when they do their own variation Katie. So cute.
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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #177 on: January 28, 2013, 23:35:03 pm »
Audrey JUST today 'got' help (as in, understood when and why she would use the sign - she has signed it before but only 'parrot-fashion' copying us). She does it really vigorously, with accompanying grunts and groans. Ha. She's just started putting together 'where' and (whatever). Where's dolly? Where's drink? Where's raisins? etc.

I feel like we need to add a few more signs. What are most useful for you? Any time I make the concerted effort to learn a new sign, I then find we don't end up using it and I wish I had learned something else instead.

Current signs are (updated 8/2 for my own info):
dog, cat, horse, light, sleep, tired, sad, eat/food, drink, milk, more, please, thank you, help, bath, bubbles, banana, raisins, book, done, music, outside, shoes, potty, dolly, car, Stan, where, hot, cold, brush teeth, water, juice, apple, ball, cuddle, coat, sleep, flower, bird, baby, bear,
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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #178 on: January 29, 2013, 08:02:30 am »
You've already got what I think were our most "useful" signs - but F liked being able to sign work (to say where Dada was), and things that were pretty/interesting to look at when we were out walking - so flower, bag (LOVED bags), umbrella, hat. Oh, and play and walk were used a lot here.

Do you sign when reading? F had an animal book which she learnt all the signs for and she would amuse herself for ages by "reading" it to herself ;D
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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #179 on: January 29, 2013, 18:50:50 pm »
You've already got what I think were our most "useful" signs
I agree!  We do hat and coat as well as shoes, because we need to get them all on to go outside right now.  We also do things we see outside: tree, bird, car, airplane, train (will add flower and bike when we see them again :P).