Flower:
We planned on teaching ASL to DD when she was a baby but dropped it when we realized she was an early talker because I read that ASL can slow verbals down.
I meet an adorable little 18 mth at the gym pool the other day who uses ASL to communicate and the mother said they are having a hard time getting her to speak because she prefers ASL to communicate with. She knows about 50 words in ASL and clearly signs in sentences. The other concern she had was that while away from mommy at the daycare she is running into problems of communication because the teachers don't know ASL which leads to frustration for her daughter.
Do you find that you have an issues such as above? I still plan on teaching DD ASL later on because it is a wonderful language. I learned when I was around 5 because my mother was a nurse and had this one patient who was blind and deaf. I was always excited to go see her and my mom taught me the basic abcs to communicate with her. What an amazing woman and an experience 30+ years later that I still remember vividly.
