Laura Berg (November’s guest speaker) is donating one sign language dictionary phone app (Android or iphone) for a lucky blog visitor! How cool is that? Want to see the app in action? Click HERE.
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I like everything about it
I was completely amazed with how much her daughter knew! What a great way to communicate with children that cant yet verbally and a great tool to have in everyday life! My favorite part of the website was watching the videos on the main page and some of the games were fun too. I would love to win this not only for childcare purposes but i have a 1yr old who is not talking yet and this could be a great way for her to communicate. How fun! I will be looking in to the classes they offer…
Looks cool! I’ve always wanted to learn ASL.
I enjoyed watching her child sign, especially if you follow the link to YouTube where she is 17 months and signing the alphabet and recognizing simple spelling words (dog, eat). It really makes me wish I had done more sign with my boys. My oldest was signing “more” before he could talk (although it looked more like ball.) He told me the other day that he wished he knew more sign language. My boys get frustrated with me know when I try to sign to them because one of us is on the phone and they don’t understand enough to know what I mean most of the time.
I love the video dictionary as I am starting to teach my infant signs, and this is a great resource.
I thought this story was really neat:
(when my daughter was ten months old she was eating Cheerios and signing ‘more’. I’d give her more and she would throw them on the floor and sign ‘more’ again. I said to her, “Then you don’t want MORE… what do you want?” She looked at me and signed ‘more cheese’. I was amazed for two reasons: 1. She put together a two word sentence at ten months. 2. There was no cheese in sight. I hadn’t offered her cheese during that snack time yet she was able to clearly communicate to me what she wanted. I could imagine how frustrated she would have been if she hadn’t been able to tell me what she wanted.)