Comments on: Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs

By: Melanie West

Melanie West — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 14:37:05 +0000

I found your blog because of the theme that I like to use for our family website. I really love this theme and I love how you did your blog unfortunately there are some stuff I couldn’t make to work.. so.. anyway, I have a 13 months old boy that I started teaching signs when he is like 9 months. But I really started signing to him at 6 months (I am a deaf interpreter in the Philippines). He started picking it up at 11 months then when he turned 1 that was the amazing moments. Everyday he started to sign back to me. Check this post that I did in my Homeschoolblogger site. Please don’t give up, it is a lot of fun and your baby is enjoying it. She is pretty by the way! Here’s the link.. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/PinayMom/167972/

By: Amy Frazier

Amy Frazier — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:22:10 +0000

Melissa, that is amazing! Thank you so much for the inspiration. I really needed to hear some real life stories. It’s easy to get discouraged when your baby just stares and blinks at you when you do the signs over and over again. I know it’s sinking in, but it’s hard when she can’t do them back yet.

So, thanks!

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:15:28 +0000

I started teaching my son sign language at 9 months. My mom and husband thought I was crazy and asked me not to tell anyone what I was doing!

I started with a book, but then read about these great DVDs, Signing Time (http://www.signingtime.com/), which both my son and I seemed to really enjoy, and they were admittedly much easier than the book! My son quickly picked up “more” and “milk” and even put them together. The first time my husband and mom saw my son sign “more milk” they were believers.

Fast forward to his 2nd birthday, and my son had an amazing vocabulary and was able to string up to 10 words together in a coherent sentence. His vocabulary was so robust, he was asked to participate in an infant language study at a local university.

Now, at 27 months, anyone can have a complete conversation with my son and he will reply as if he’s a little adult. It’s a real panic, and usually catches people off guard. But his language skills blow away those of his peers and I am convinced it is because of the signing.

My son still likes to watch the Signing Time DVDs, and I plan on teaching my 3-month old sign language when he’s older.