Originally Posted by BigBadWool
That is funny!
I tried the baby sign language too. I have a VERY independent child that never asked for anything so, although he knew the signs and what they meant he never used them to ask me for milk or more or anything.


To the OP, my Ds walked at 9 mos. as did I and he was speech delayed. He had his first words around the regular time for boys (I am thinking around 10-11 mos?) but, didn't really start talking until about 2 1/2-3 yo. He could read before he could talk I think.

We did sign language, too. Our son learned, "more" and "eat" and...I can't remember what else. It wasn't much more before he was speaking, though.