To execute the sign for TURTLE, place your dominant hand in an “A” handshape with your palm facing the side. Place your non-dominant hand over the “A”. The thumb on your dominant hand represents the head of a turtle and the non-dominant hand represents the shell on the turtle’s back […]
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Sign Language Tip – Use books for signing opportunities
Reading books provides a range of opportunities to model signs to children. Often, books for young children are short, repetitive and theme focused. Consider including signs into your next story time!
Sign of the Week – Ice Cream
To execute the sign for ICE-CREAM, close your fist as if you are holding an ice-cream cone at your mouth and mimic licking the ice-cream. The sign does not require you to stick your tongue out.
Deaf culture Tip – Sign Variation
Just as there are differences in hearing individuals “accents” and slang from coast to coast there are regional differences in signs. A good book on the topic of variations is What’s your Sign for Pizza?
Should Your Baby “invent” ASL Signs?
Kids are an inventive bunch – “invisible friends,” Lego creatures or coloring outside the lines. It’s part of their personality formation. So it is OK to let your baby make up new signs, right? False – it will hinder, not help. If you wanted to learn French, would you cobble […]
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