https://www.cbsnews.com/news/samant...neighborhood-learning-american-sign-language/
The girl was born deaf and the neighbors started taking lessons in American Sign Language. Very cool.
Just as a PSA, in regards to kids born deaf with hearing parents it's absolutely in their best interests that they be exposed to ASL as soon as possible. Even if it's the intention to give the child a Cochlear Implant, deaf kids, like any other kid, really need to get exposed to a language from the beginning and ASL is the way to do it. I've been teaching deaf kids for 36 years and it's my experience that the kids with the best English skills are either those who are late-deafened (as I was; I was in kindergarten) or those with deaf parents, who would sign to them from the get-go.
And, anyhow, nothing's cooler than signing ASL with a little kid.
The girl was born deaf and the neighbors started taking lessons in American Sign Language. Very cool.
Just as a PSA, in regards to kids born deaf with hearing parents it's absolutely in their best interests that they be exposed to ASL as soon as possible. Even if it's the intention to give the child a Cochlear Implant, deaf kids, like any other kid, really need to get exposed to a language from the beginning and ASL is the way to do it. I've been teaching deaf kids for 36 years and it's my experience that the kids with the best English skills are either those who are late-deafened (as I was; I was in kindergarten) or those with deaf parents, who would sign to them from the get-go.
And, anyhow, nothing's cooler than signing ASL with a little kid.
