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Teaching Sign Language to Nondisabled Infants and the Effects by It
Communication skills is an important aspect during the early stages of childhood development. At a certain age, infants try to repeat the same words that adults use, but their first words would most likely be “Mama” or “Dad.” Suppose a parent wants to speed up his or her child communication skills. Studies have shown that if parents would teach their infant sign language at a young age it would speed up their communication skills. Teaching infants who can hear sign language will help ease the process of language skills. Does teaching infants with non-disabilities sign language help or slow down the process of speaking?
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The first step was to identify all the websites that promoted the use of sign language with pre-linguistic of a normal hearing toddler of hearing parents. Thirty-three websites were found and each site were evaluated to identify the outcomes of the websites that parents expect their infants or toddlers with normal hearing to be taught to sign. For each website that was searched it stated that infants who learn how to sign will experience feelings such as accomplished or satisfied and other sites were for brain development such as enhanced memory or even increasing the IQ. The next step involved the evaluation of the quality of the sites and if the outcomes of the websites of teaching sign to normal hearing toddlers were increasing. Nelson’s (2012) results showed that a total of 82 sources of evidence within the specific websites showed support of claiming benefits of teaching sign language to normal hearing infants. Also, four other articles indicated that communicative exchanges and sign vocabulary has increased when infants with resolve taught to sign while three other articles focused on vocabulary …show more content…
All three families chose to use sign language with their hearing children, before making the decision the families had no knowledge with the Deaf community, and the children language was developing normally. Each taping session lasted for about an hour and in each family, the children were about fifteen months to twenty-one months old. Overall, the infants from the three families were taught signing for specific purposes such as for politeness and when the infants are in the kitchen they were taught to sign when wanting something or how to ask for an item. Pizer realized when evaluating these families that they learned how beneficial it can be, yet how it can also be discarded when the infants eventually start speaking. Also, it reduces a barrier between the deaf and hearing communities (Pizer,
Teaching Sign Language to Nondisabled Infants and the Effects by It
Communication skills is an important aspect during the early stages of childhood development. At a certain age, infants try to repeat the same words that adults use, but their first words would most likely be “Mama” or “Dad.” Suppose a parent wants to speed up his or her child communication skills. Studies have shown that if parents would teach their infant sign language at a young age it would speed up their communication skills. Teaching infants who can hear sign language will help ease the process of language skills. Does teaching infants with non-disabilities sign language help or slow down the process of speaking?
Literature …show more content…
The first step was to identify all the websites that promoted the use of sign language with pre-linguistic of a normal hearing toddler of hearing parents. Thirty-three websites were found and each site were evaluated to identify the outcomes of the websites that parents expect their infants or toddlers with normal hearing to be taught to sign. For each website that was searched it stated that infants who learn how to sign will experience feelings such as accomplished or satisfied and other sites were for brain development such as enhanced memory or even increasing the IQ. The next step involved the evaluation of the quality of the sites and if the outcomes of the websites of teaching sign to normal hearing toddlers were increasing. Nelson’s (2012) results showed that a total of 82 sources of evidence within the specific websites showed support of claiming benefits of teaching sign language to normal hearing infants. Also, four other articles indicated that communicative exchanges and sign vocabulary has increased when infants with resolve taught to sign while three other articles focused on vocabulary …show more content…
All three families chose to use sign language with their hearing children, before making the decision the families had no knowledge with the Deaf community, and the children language was developing normally. Each taping session lasted for about an hour and in each family, the children were about fifteen months to twenty-one months old. Overall, the infants from the three families were taught signing for specific purposes such as for politeness and when the infants are in the kitchen they were taught to sign when wanting something or how to ask for an item. Pizer realized when evaluating these families that they learned how beneficial it can be, yet how it can also be discarded when the infants eventually start speaking. Also, it reduces a barrier between the deaf and hearing communities (Pizer,