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<b>L O W L A N D S - L - 19 August 2010 - Volume 03<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">From: <img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Ron/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtml1/01/clip_image001.gif" class=" QrVm3d" name="upi" width="1" border="0" height="1"><span class="gd"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Kirsteen
Wilkes</span></span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:kirsteen.wilkes@hotmail.co.uk">kirsteen.wilkes@hotmail.co.uk</a>></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L
"Evolution" 2010.08.19 (02) [EN]</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">As a parent of young
children I have had a wee bit of experience of this - both through my own
children and elsewhere. This whole concept has been a relatively new one
(outside of the Speech & Language Therapist professions) in the UK. I have a
friend who is closely involved in this industry and has used sign language (in
the UK Makaton which is a simplified version of BSL) extensively with young
children and childcare environments (see <a href="http://www.signingbabies.co.uk/" target="_blank">www.signingbabies.co.uk</a>).
It also has a useful function in enabling young children from non-English
speaking backgrounds to communicate easily and quickly whilst learning English.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Unfortunately a lot of the
developments in this area came onto the scene too late for the one of my 3
children who would most have benefited - but he still used signs and gestures
at an early age to make himself understood.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">To anyone who might worry
that the use of hand signs and gestures would delay speech rather than enhance
it - I would highlight the experience I had with my first (and highly
articulate) child, when he learnt at the age of 10 months to wave. I am pretty
sure this is the case for the vast majority of children but it's always most
exciting with the first! The joy and pleasure he got when at the age of 10
months when he learnt the phrase "wave bye-bye" and realised that to
do so on leaving someone or also meeting them would elicit a positive response
from others around him was exciting to watch. With waving this of course is far
greater than with any other sign as it is a universally (in this culture)
understood gesture meaning "Hallo" or "Good-bye" and
produces a reaction from total strangers when your sitting in your buggy!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Having some degree of sign
language/gesture system within a family is also useful at a later date for
communicating silently over a large distance or where it is required to keep
noise levels down.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">If anyone is interested in
learning more from the above website - it may interest some readers of this site
to know that the person behind this business is in fact German and would also
be more than happy to handle queries in her native language!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Kirsteen Wilkes</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">From:
R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Subject:
Evolution</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Dear
Kirsteen,<br>
<br>
Congratulations on your first Lowlands-L posting, and welcome to the speakers corner!
I am delighted to see you here.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA</span></p>
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