Signing 4 Baby - Baby Sign Language » Clayton Valli http://www.signing4baby.com/blog Teaching Parents how to teach their Babies Sign Language Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:34:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 American Sign Language is Widely accepted by Universities as a Second Language http://www.signing4baby.com/blog/american-sign-language-is-widely-accepted-by-universities-as-a-second-language/ http://www.signing4baby.com/blog/american-sign-language-is-widely-accepted-by-universities-as-a-second-language/#comments Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:38:28 +0000 Andrea http://www.signing4baby.com/blog/?p=34 American Sign Language is a foreign language. The signs you are teaching your baby are concepts used in this foreign language. Clayton Valli is a leading researcher and linguist and defines American Sign Language. “American Sign Language is an autonomous linguistic system whose elements are visual rather than aural. It is a fully formed language….” Teaching your child American Sign Language gives them the chance to become bilingual. Many Universities accept American Sign Language as a foreign language and have courses for it.

Deborah Parrish, M.S., Signing 4 Baby Founder

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