Youngest Baby to Use Sign Language?
Monday August 18, 2008
I shouldn't blog twice in just a few minutes, but this article was too cute not to blog. The Lancashire Telegraph has a report about a two-month old baby communicating in baby sign language when she is hungry. Yes, two months old. That is the youngest I have ever read about.
Is that the youngest age possible for communication in baby sign language? Two months old? Like the parents in the article mention, the youngest I had been aware of prior to reading this article, was four months old.
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Comments
TWO months? Wow! I’ve never heard of a baby signing THAT young! The earliest I’ve heard of is about 5-6 months…. Shows the power of signs for us all!
“V8″ I dunno know about myself how old I signed for very first time to my deaf mother. Too bad, she recently passed away few years ago.
I recalled that many people repeatedly told me how young I was able to read before the age of 2. I kept asking my mother please to send me to the school of the deaf before the age of three. I kept going to the school campus and begged for an early education- four blocks from my deaf mother’s apartment in Romney. I finally got enrolled at the age of four.
The WV School for the Deaf’s Elementary (Primary) Department really doesn’t know what to do with me. I already suprassed my own classmates and kept wandered around the school for more interesting subjects to learn and ended up in class with older students all by myself.
My kindgarten teacher, Ms. Virginia Pancake, had to look for me every time while I disappeared from that class. She decided to let me stayed in other classes from on. No questions about some teachers were not pleased with my presence and undermined their authority and often seen as “Know-It-All” kid.
I ended up hanged out with older kids, not my own peers. I often punished by the audistic (Mrs. Nazi) houseparent, Mrs. Katherine Johnson for wandering into the older students’ activities and join them. I could not communicate with my own peers equally.
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
WOW– 2 months, that’s amazing! I have heard of babies exposed to sign from birth approximating signs at 4 months… my own two kids started at 6.5 which was wonderful!
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