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Lourdes Tollette Date: Thu Feb 11, 1999 3:32 am Subject: Re: Children Learning SignWriting | ||||||||
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Val, I believe Deaf babies and hearing babies are not the same comprehension at the same age. I have notice that I am deaf and my hearing son Gabriel was a lot different than my other 2 kids. He hasn't talk till He was 4 years old. You know why, Because When my hearing husband home a lot and have spend a lot time with my oldest son ( Mikey). Mikey talk really well because his father is around. But the second son (Gabe) , He more spend a lot time with me than his father because he had a long hours from work and work on the weekend a lot. He wasn't much home. So, I am not very good speech. I always sign to them since they were newborn. They sign to me when they were 7 months old. They first sign to me "Milk" , "Cookie", "Da Da" and "Ma Ma". But they don't talk like sentence... Lourdes -----Original Message----- From: Valerie Sutton [SMTP:] Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 10:18 PM To: SignWriting List Subject: Re: Children Learning SignWriting >Actually, my understanding it has more to do with physical development and >readiness. Babies are more physically ready to coordinate movements with >their hands at a younger age than they are to coordinate the muscles in >their mouths and throats to produce speech at that age. If you think about >it, it makes sense... babies at 6-7 months can grab stuff, so it's not a far >step to produce the handshape and movements needed to sign, but babies at >6-7 months still need help to burp-- if they can't burp, they surely can't >produce speech! > >--Don Grushkin ________________ Hi Don - and yes this makes a great deal of sense - thanks for the information. This explains the physical side of it. I am curious about research on comprehension...does this mean that the signing babies and the speaking babies both have the same comprehension at the same age, but the signing babies can express themselves sooner because of motor skills, and the hearing babies are frustrated and have to wait longer to express their understanding through speech? Is it only the physical that is holding them back, or is comprehension of speech learned later, and comprehension of signing learned sooner? I just wondered if comprehension of a signed language might be sooner because of its visual nature? Valerie ':-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie Sutton at the DAC Deaf Action Committee for SW SignWriting https://www.SignWriting.org Center For Sutton Movement Writing an educational nonprofit organization Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | ||||||||
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