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<b>L O W L A N D S - L - 23 August 2010 - Volume 01<br>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">From: <span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Sandy Fleming</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:sandy@fleimin.demon.co.uk">sandy@fleimin.demon.co.uk</a>></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L
"Evolution" 2010.08.19 (02) [EN]</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">> From: Brooks, Mark <<a href="mailto:mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us">mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us</a>><br>
><br>
> Subject: LL-L "Evolution" 2010.08.18 (02) [EN]<br>
><br>
> On a related note to evolution and sign language. Here in the USA some<br>
> parents of very young children teach them a rudimentary form of sign<br>
> language before they have the ability to talk. I believe that day care<br>
> centers initiated this idea. Kids make a sign for “more” “thank you”<br>
> “hungry”, etc. They don’t continue it for very long, and make no<br>
> effort for them to really learn ASL. They use it as a way to<br>
> facilitate what a child wants before he or she can pronounce the<br>
> words.<br>
<br>
I know hearing people who sign have taught their babies sign language<br>
before they could speak, but hearing children of hearing parents tend to<br>
stop using sign language once they can speak. I know such children, and<br>
they're now getting very good reports in school - I was talking to the<br>
mother of one recently who was telling me that her six-year-old was now<br>
getting all "A"s. As we now know, the earlier a child acquires
language,<br>
any language, the better their linguistic development in all languages.<br>
<br>
Most children of hearing learners of sign language often seem to pick up<br>
sign very quickly from watching their parents signing with Deaf people<br>
or other students. I know hearing children who are happy to sign with<br>
Deaf people - as long as there are no hearing signers present. So some<br>
of my hearing friends know by hearsay that their hearing children know<br>
sign language: they've just never seen it for themselves.<br>
<br>
Hearing children of Deaf parents are of course expert signers and never<br>
stop using it.<br>
<br>
> I recently talked with a friend who has an 18-month old son. She said<br>
> she decided not to teach him the rudiments of sign language, because<br>
> she heard that it “delays language development.” I put that in quotes,<br>
> because she said it that way.<br>
<br>
Quite a lot of hearing people who work in Deaf organisations are<br>
anti-sign language and can take quite a hard-line approach, even telling<br>
parents of Deaf children that the children should never be allowed to<br>
sign. This results in Deaf children going to nursery school with a<br>
vocabulary of perhaps a dozen English words.<br>
<br>
Some take it further and even talk about Deafness as a "cult", as if<br>
attempting to deny that it even exists.<br>
<span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><br>
Sandy Fleming<br>
<a href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank">http://scotstext.org/</a></span></p>
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