Baby Sign Language – Bubbles Song

American Sign Language signs have shown to be helpful in increasing communication among children and helping with their learning abilities. It can also be a fun way to interact with your child or students. They are learning better communication, while having fun. Songs are a great way to get children involved and excited about […]

Will Teaching My Baby Sign Language Delay His Speech?

by Christina Schabow, owner Baby Sign Language in Play (Portland, Oregon) This is by far one of the most common questions I get from parents: Will teaching my baby to sign delay his speech?As a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) I love to answer this question! A good deal of research has been done to address […]

Can learning sign language help me learn other (spoken) languages easier?

I was thinking that maybe learning sign language would not only help me communicate with the deaf, but also help me learn languages like italian and French faster. Like if I’m learning the french word for Car I can sign car at the same time and I’ll remember what the word means. I don’t know […]

An overview on sign language linguistics

Sign language is a rule-governed language that has its own grammatical rules and symbol system. As such, it meets all the requirements of spoken languages abolishing any dispute as to whether it is really a language or not. The work of William C. Stokoe Jr. ‘Sign Language Structure’ (1960) is the first linguistic analysis […]