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Hi everyone! My name is Alyssa and I have a 2 year old who has (at least?) moderate hearing loss, currently unaided. His audiology tests have been very confusing (long story) so we're not sure exactly how severe the loss is but best guess is at least 50db across all frequencies. He cannot speak/understand spoken word so for the last 2.5 months I have been working with him in ASL. He now attends a sign/speech playgroup once a week but most of the teachers are hearing and don't sign a lot. My son responds well to the Deaf teacher there though!
Just looking for more community and support for ASL and bicultural/bilingual development as the playgroup here does focus a lot on spoken language (which he can't hear enough of to use)... It appears to me that the other kids are aided or CI and their hearing parents are more focused on oral language with using signs as support tools.
Any suggestions on how to incorporate more sign into play would be awesome. He's a VERY busy boy, smart, stubborn, loves vehicles, building things, cooking,water play, painting, Signing Time and playgrounds. Helping him watch me and make the connection between the sign and the concept is my biggest challenge right now, as well as trying to get him to use his signs consistently instead of just his garbly voice... he has about 20 signs he can use right now. He understands a lot of signs considering its only been a few months of teaching him, and my vocab is between 100-150 signs currently.
I live in Edmonton, AB Canada.
Hi everyone! My name is Alyssa and I have a 2 year old who has (at least?) moderate hearing loss, currently unaided. His audiology tests have been very confusing (long story) so we're not sure exactly how severe the loss is but best guess is at least 50db across all frequencies. He cannot speak/understand spoken word so for the last 2.5 months I have been working with him in ASL. He now attends a sign/speech playgroup once a week but most of the teachers are hearing and don't sign a lot. My son responds well to the Deaf teacher there though!
Just looking for more community and support for ASL and bicultural/bilingual development as the playgroup here does focus a lot on spoken language (which he can't hear enough of to use)... It appears to me that the other kids are aided or CI and their hearing parents are more focused on oral language with using signs as support tools.
Any suggestions on how to incorporate more sign into play would be awesome. He's a VERY busy boy, smart, stubborn, loves vehicles, building things, cooking,water play, painting, Signing Time and playgrounds. Helping him watch me and make the connection between the sign and the concept is my biggest challenge right now, as well as trying to get him to use his signs consistently instead of just his garbly voice... he has about 20 signs he can use right now. He understands a lot of signs considering its only been a few months of teaching him, and my vocab is between 100-150 signs currently.
I live in Edmonton, AB Canada.