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    Language Acquisition, Food for Thought

    My point was that babies can do both I know deaf babies that have also been able to learn both with neither hindering the other the use of sign language allows babies hearing or deaf to be able to for conversations. By using sighs children children become better at connecting words to objects...
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    Hating to use "spoken" English?

    Sorry to jump in on your threat I am a hearing person with something to day about CIs don't worry I'm not pushing them on something first off the thought of a CI is scary and i think I would rather be deaf having some item implanted in your brain not for me also I have worked with babied with...
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    teaching myself to sign...<3

    They are all right! I work with hearing babies and toddlers using signs while also teaching them speak so when I sign with the babies and toddlers I need to use ASL signs in proper english sentence order kind of a combination of SEE and ASL but I use ASL signs in English sentence order and when...
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    Sign for Prom from show Switched at Birth

    in this video he finger spells prom and also uses that sign Deaf Prom: Save the Date! - YouTube
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    Language Acquisition, Food for Thought

    I do not agree with this at all! I have been signing with babies since 2008 as well as speaking to them out loud in english when I use the sign I say the word associated with the sign all of the babies I have worked with have used their first sign by 6 months and have spoken true words before...
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    New to asl! Need help glossing a song!

    That's a really hard song to choose, was it assigned to you? all those swears may upset your teacher, I would many suggest going with a song with less swears that is not a rap because rap dosn't always use real words there for it is hard to translate
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    Links to websites for learning ASL

    Signing Online - Learn American Sign Language this the link to on-line ASL classed they are pretty responsibly priced I think it is $50 a class
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    Turning off the Voice?

    I took it through early intervention in Massachusetts
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    Teaching hearies ASL

    Hey, My suggestion is to turn your voice off and start only signing to people they will pick up that you are serious and they can learn that way too, that is how I learned my sign teacher was voice off hard of hearing and did not wear hearing aids. I walked into the class knowing no sign what so...
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    How did you learn, or how are you learning, ASL?

    I learned to sign when I became the nanny for a 2 month old little girl who was hard of hearing at 6 weeks she had hearing aids but we wanted her to be able to communicate with out her aids in. So we contacted early intervention and set up to have a teacher come to the house and teach us ASL our...
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    Turning off the Voice?

    When I took my first sign class My teacher was heard of hearing and only used sign as her family only signed when we where in class we where not allowed to speak we where only allowed to use sign and if we didn't know a sign we where to act out what we needed to know and she would give us the...
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    Students Looking for ASL buddies

    Sorry to jump in so late last I checked you could also video chat on FB just a suggestion all thought I would help out, another thing i do to keep up with my sign is i watch signing YouTube videos with mute on and say to myself what they are signing
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