Use of baby signs in children acquiring sign language

[Peter Gordon]

It seems that there is a separate issue about whether young infants can
learn to communicate with a simplified sign system (which seems to be the
case) and whether that helps (or hinders) normal language learning (which
seems to be more controversial).   Probably shouldn't throw out the baby
signs with the bathwater, just because it doesn't help with regular language
if some parents find it useful for understanding an infants needs.

Peter Gordon


On 3/7/10 4:01 PM, "reilly1 at mail.sdsu.edu" <reilly1 at mail.sdsu.edu> wrote:

> Hi Laura,
> Karen Emmorey has done work on gesture in ASL if you are interested.
> Cheers
> Judy 

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