Zoo Fun: Toddler uses American Sign Language to describe past experiences
Taking a toddler to the zoo is extra fun when you use American Sign Language. I had the opportunity go to the zoo with a two year old toddler who has been learning to sign with her mother since she was born. At the zoo she tried many different animal signs and descriptive (adverbs and adjective) signs. Then later that day she was using signs to help talk about the experience. The language development for young children has shown time and time again the positive intellectual effects of American Sign Language. Not only could our little signer, communicate with signs as she looked at the animals, but, that reinforcement of spoken along with signed communication enhanced her memory skills.
Deborah Parrish M.S.
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