My husband and I want to teach our son how to do Sign Language. But we read that it’s a good idea to start a baby at 6 to 9 months. He’s 18 months now. Is it too late to teach him now because he still has trouble with some words or should we wait til he gets older?
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It’s never too late to teach kids anything. They pick up really quick. Their minds are fresh and free. Go for it.
u should wait till hes 2years old then start cause thats when they start developing the fastest
Start as soon as possible. The younger a child is, the more easily that child will be able to pick up languages. As we get older, we tend to lose that ability. That is why younger children tend to learn and retain languages faster than someone in their adulthood.
So, in order to answer your question, yes. He can still learn sign language.
Nope. He’ll pick it up really well if you’re diligent about it. You should look for the show ‘Signing Time’. It teaches kids sign language.
It’s never too old, nor too young.
The difficulty you might have at the moment is in forging the connection between movement and language on a more concrete level than he is used to, but younger people especially 3 and younger are much more able to adopt other languages, and ASL is a language.
It might be a bit frustrating at first, but if he is a hearing child, couple the words with the signs. He’ll start using them, especially with some encouragement.
What can be frustrating with signing children though, is that when they do sign, and they are asking you for something, and you simply don’t see them, you might have a child start crying because you haven’t answered them simply because you didn’t see them. This has happened to a friend of mine a few times with her daughter.
So, by all means, expose your child to whatever language you have access to. Even if they don’t become fluent immediately, it will give them skills to learn other languages later in life.