Articles for tag: American Sign Language, Baby Sign Language, Learning German, Sign Language

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5 Super Easy Baby Sign Language Activities

By practicing baby sign language activities, you may find yourself able to communicate with your baby up to one year before he will be able to talk. By signing while you talk to your baby, he will pick up the baby sign language skills quickly. The more you use baby sign language, the quicker he ...

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Mom Finds New Career in Baby Sign Language

As a teen, Patrice Courtemanche became fascinated with sign language and knew then she wanted to teach it to a child of her own someday. Twenty years later her ten-month-old daughter spontaneously reminded her it was time for ‘milk’ by signing for the first time, and now mom and three-year-old Jordin sing songs while signing ...

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Deaf History: Native American Sign Language

Native Americans account for the highest known rates of Deaf individuals within their population. It is believed that as many as 15 in 650 Native Americans are severe to profoundly Deaf. This is more than two times the national average. Native Americans are more than three times as likely to be hospitalized for problems relating ...

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Teaching Sign Language to Young Children

As a home-schooling mother I want my children to have a well balanced education; not only to improve their minds, but also to help my children develop a better understanding of the world around them. I want my children to have as diverse an education as I can provide for them. When I was in ...

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ASL Poetry: American Sign Language as Underground Art

Students study the greatest writers and poets of history, and most of them sigh and groan through it and never come to have an appreciation for the fantastic minds celebrated before them. Shakespeare, Hemingway, Homer, Faulkner, Baudelaire. These are big names who all have something in common. Each is revered for his great mind and ...

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Free, Printable Sign Language Worksheets

The following free, printable sign language worksheets can be used as a way for homeschool children to learn a second language. The free, printable sign language worksheets can be used at home for those who have deaf people living in their homes. During high school in our home economics classes we learned the basic sign ...