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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #45 on: March 07, 2012, 12:53:08 pm »
We vaguely started at 5-6 months with *milk* but around seven really worked on being consistent with about five or six signs. F signed a couple back by nine months and we started introducing as many signs as we consistently could at that stage. By one year she had 100 signs, now it's closer to 150. It really went in explosions - some weeks she wouldn't sign much new, other days she'd do four or five new ones.

Anyone else find that their LO likes to learn things in topics? eg F associates sun, moon, stars, sky and clouds, so very quickly learnt all of those signs together. Another thing she LOVES recently is to learn to sign a song or nursery rhyme. Eg for Hey Diddle Diddle, as I say it she'll sign cat, fiddle, cow, moon, dog, laugh and spoon. So cute!
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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #46 on: March 07, 2012, 14:26:15 pm »
6 months, because realistically, you cannot expect them to sign back prior to then.  Even deaf babies with deaf parents where signing is constant, you don't see them signing back much before that (yes, there are cases of babies signing earlier, but they are rare!)  For Mom, if you start signing earlier, you begin to get frustrated because you aren't seeing results. 


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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #47 on: March 07, 2012, 14:37:23 pm »
Six months sounds right. I think Stan signed back at 10 months, 'milk'. I know he was signing pretty good by his first birthday.

This last weekend we were filming for the National Deaf Children's Society, this one little boy had a sign interpreter there for him, when it was story time she stood next to the teacher and signed right along and his little eyes just flicked back and forth from the picture book to the interpreter, picture book, interpreter.





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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #48 on: March 07, 2012, 22:29:47 pm »
We are still a bit slack here at 10.5mo but I did it earlier with K around 6mo.

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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #49 on: March 07, 2012, 22:52:24 pm »
I think i was signing 'finished' for ages- as you are always 'finishing'' things... but there are a lot of opportunities that coincide with 6 months that enble you to sign more- eating, more sitting, more active play.

Now Hamish isn't signing yet (looks very intently) but has started in the shower hitting my hand away when i sign 'finished' as he's trying to get his duck... It seems more like he's saying- not finished- rather than just 'get your hand out of the way of my duck!!'.. we'll see..
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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #50 on: March 08, 2012, 18:31:49 pm »
We started pretty late, maybe around 10 months, and it's only now that I *think* we have our first sign - "finished" :D
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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #51 on: March 08, 2012, 21:11:48 pm »
We started around 6 mo for both kids. Pretty much when we put them in the high chair as it's so easy to look straight at them then and eating/food signs just seem pretty concrete and appropriate at that age. I think Claire signed back around 9 mo, can't remember if it was 'more' or 'finished.' Will have to go look it up, now.  :P

What I really can't remember, though, did you just start with a few signs and do them very often, or sign lots of things all throughout the day? I'm thinking I must have done the former with Claire, but yes she had lots of little explosions as Nuala mentioned, so I must have just started signing everything once she did that first one back. ??



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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #52 on: March 08, 2012, 21:25:00 pm »
I started with a few signs an often, but have been trying to add as many as possible. I think as he's started to actually look at me it's easier (you feel like a dill signing for your own enjoyment). In some ways too you don't have to panic tooo much about when to start- as i feel that if i got a 1 year old and taught them a couple of signs, and started using them in a motivating context- they'd pick them up really fast..
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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #53 on: March 08, 2012, 21:26:15 pm »
That said- i also feel that signing is really valuable for receptive language- what they can understand.. and they'll be understanding the signs way before they can use them- so it's great to help them to organise their day!
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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #54 on: May 03, 2012, 21:37:25 pm »
Ha! Colby signed back for the first time today :) He did more when he was eating carrots. I had been giving him one at a time and signing more each time. Cadan was joining in with me and asking Colby if he wanted more too. And then he signed back. I was so excited but unlucky for him he had eaten them all Ha! I gave him some blueberries instead. Even Cadan was saying "Colby said more!" He did it a few times after that too and always in context. Hehe so cute!

I'll have to start signing more words now he seems to have the hang of it.
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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #55 on: May 04, 2012, 02:10:57 am »
 8)  ;D


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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #56 on: May 04, 2012, 10:04:37 am »
YAY!!
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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #57 on: May 04, 2012, 16:33:03 pm »
So cute!
Amazingly we also have some signing back - eat, enough (when he doesn't want to eat anymore), all gone and a walk.
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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #58 on: May 05, 2012, 10:54:37 am »
B has signed all done a few times now. I am not as consistent as I should be.

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Re: Baby Sign Language Thread #4
« Reply #59 on: May 05, 2012, 11:16:27 am »
You could try enlisting K's help with the signs? My sister did this with her girls and the older one was teaching the little one...

so lovely to see signing progress here yay!