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Education > Special Education How to teach sign language to babies

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Yesterday, I walked through Walmart getting some strange stares from people as I conversed with my very young (14 months) and clearly non-verbal daughter. What got me the strange looks wasn't that I was talking to her, but that I was talking to her as if we were having a conversation - and we were. What looked to others like just baby play was actually her using sign language to talk to me. Her signs are babyish, just like her speech would be, but she was able to ask me for a balloon when we walked past the party decorations and beg me for crackers as we passed the Goldfish display. S...

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