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Old 06-03-2009, 02:03 PM   #25 (permalink)
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On of the girls on my Daugher's softball team has an autistic brother.

He is a wonderful sweet boy! He does not communicate well verbally. When I met his mother. She told me he is autistic. And does not speak often or well. She said he does sign. I told her I sign. I have never seen a kid light up so much when I started signing to him. He does fairly well with sign language.

It was awesome.

I talked to him like I would talk to others. He talked mainly about his sister playing ball.
that's awesome. I was actually thinking of signing to autistic people along with talking as they are very visual-based but I wasn't so sure because when signing - you have to make facial expression and from what I read, they are acutely sensitive to glaring and "negative" facial expression.

I suppose I'll keep a happy face while signing and talking.
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