Discussion Details
| Title: | Re: Media: BBC: Baby Signing/Mark Jones |
| Submitter: | Will Salmon |
| Description: | My wife picked up a copy of *Baby Signs* (Susan Goodwyn) several months ago and began teaching some signs to our then-13-month old. Simple stuff like signs for milk, Cheerios, various animal names, etc. My son is now 20 months and has been putting together two-word strings like 'my daddy', 'not snowing' for at least a couple of months, with more every day. So, I don't know that his early baby-sign education has delayed his speech development.
Like Mark Jones though, my initial impression of baby signing was that it was a bit faddy, if entertaining. However, I am not a language acquisitionist and don't purport to make any claims one way or the other about effects of baby signing on speech development. I just thought it worth mentioning that it doesn't seem to have had any adverse affects on my son's verbal speech development. Will Salmon |
| Date Posted: | 06-Jun-2005 |
| Linguistic Field(s): | Language Acquisition |
| LL Issue: | 16.1779 |
| Posted: | 06-Jun-2005 |
