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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:
<span class="gd"><span style="color:#790619">Sandy Fleming</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:fleemin@live.co.uk">fleemin@live.co.uk</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L "Language history" 2011.04.16 (01) [EN]</span><br>
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<span style="color:navy">> From: Mark and Ruth Dreyer <<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net" target="_blank"><span style="color:navy">mrdreyer@lantic.net</span></a>></span></p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">> Subject: LL-L "Language history" 2011.04.15 (05)
[EN]</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">> By the way, it didn't seem to me the kids in that video were
actually communicating verbally, but they had the wit to pretend to, as between
themselves, while actually going by gesture & expression. I am
informed that kids can sign meaningfully long before they are able to speak. Sandy, what do you say -
about this last?</span></p>

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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Yes, children can sign much
earlier than they can speak, hence the popularity of "baby sign".<br>
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I think with baby sign the limiting factor is usually the fact that the parents
don't tend to know any more sign language than the baby, so the baby's learning
opportunities can be limited.<br>
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Hearing babies whose parents are hearing but know BSL have more range but
forget the language before they go to school. I don't know what scientific
studies have been done but of the three hearing children I know who knew sign
as babies, and whose hearing parents actually know BSL, do seem to be top of
the class in a range of subjects, and this is from parents showing me their
report cards, not just their own estimation. Still, it's not a large sample
space!<br>
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Sandy Fleming<br>
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