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  1. I taught my son some basic signs when he was about 9 months old (more, please, thank you, drink) and when he was 1 he learned eat, hungry, mom, and play. However, he had stopped using all of his signs by the age of 2 and 1/2 because he realized that he could talk and so he didn’t need his signs. I love watching the home videos of him being so little and signing “more” while he asked in his cute, little voice… ahh… memories. 🙂

  2. When my daughter used sign language she really only used ‘more’, ‘no’, and ‘play’ for her sign language. (Official signs)

    She had her own made up signs for drink, eat, sleeping.

    However, once she started actually talking she sort of gave up sign language. All of them except for ‘more’ if she was really mad about something and really really wanted MORE. She’d slam her fingers together, we’d joke and say she was ‘yelling’.

  3. My 15 mo old did the signs for milk and bird for a while there. He started talking quite a bit, so I discontinued showing him the signing DVD we were using because he wasn’t so crazy about it as other kids I know. He still does the sign for milk, but only when he sees a bottle of milk, not to say “hey, I want milk.” When he wants milk he just cries. The tag on this post says I have too much punctuation, so I’m going to wrap it up. Sign language for babies is wonderful.

  4. yeah but she doesn’t use too much , but shes really expressive with her hands and moves them around a lot when talking. if she says big , she’ll stretch her arms wide apart, my husband carries around a briefcase , because hes a lawyer, and she sees him pull up outside and she’ll run up to me , and impersonate holding a briefcase and go daddy daddy. she does quite a few others too

  5. by the time my son was 18 mos, his fluency surpassed mine. his ability to understand our Deaf friends was phenomenal -kids have an amazing gift for language. continue the studies & encourage the use of a 2nd language in the home. i found ASL to be a great way to give non verbal prompts like please & thank you.

  6. My 14 month old knows a few signs. She can sign please, eat, and more. and she can say thank you.

    That is great that she uses her signs to support herself! Emma also says more when she signs it, which is helpful because at one point the words up, down, and more all sounded the same!

  7. Yes she does, it is something I became interested in because I have a nephew who has been deaf from birth (he is now 10 years old) I started teaching my daughter signs before she could talk and now she can “converse” pretty well with her cousin. She knows most of the animal signs and signs for family members as well as the sign for school, road, bus, car, truck, train and airplane. She knows the signs for ball, balloon, and all of the colors and can sign number from one to 30 right now. She knows the signs for book, house, and if she doesn’t know the sign she will take her cousin’s hand and lead him to whatever she is “talking” about. He also wears a hearing aid that helps him with some sounds and he has learned to talk a bit. All of the kids in the family have been brought up learning sign language, some take to it quite well while others struggle along.

  8. my son has a speech delay that was diagnosed at 2 years old. At 25-26 months old we began teaching him ASL to deal with his frustration. He had about 50-75 signs that he knew at his peak. as he began vocalizing he began dropping signs—unless he knew his articultion was bad on that word. “sissy” and “kitty” sounded alike, so he would sign “cat” as he said the word. At 3.5 years old he does not sign much anymore, but he does still sign some since he has classmates who signed. The funniest thing is when he is trying to convince me to let him do something he says Yes and signs it too :))

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