cute baby signing/baby sign language: Fireese is now 2!

www.mysmarthands.com People often wonder if using sign language with babies will delay speech. I have posted videos of my daughter, Fireese, since she was one year. She has just turned two and I want you to see how verbal she it. Signing has not delayed her language at all For more info and videos visit: […]

Language names in ASL- How do you say “Yiddish?”?

I recently noted in ASL that the word for “Hebrew” (the language) is synonymous with the word for Jewish (the religion). I recently needed the word “Yiddish” though (a Jewish language which literally translated into “Jewish”). How do distinguish between the two in conversation? It generally is not clear from conversational context. .

Are schools required to provide American Sign Language Interpreters for deaf students?

I worked with a student with autism for a few months in school. He was also deaf. He had an interpreter and other staff who knew quite a bit of sign language. But, I have been told there is a deaf student at an elementary school in my school district without an interpreter. (This child […]