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Below are articles of interest on the subject of Babies and Sign Language:


Research 

Sign, Baby, Sign! by Kristin Snoddon
Penn State Department of Speech Communication Article in WFD News, Magazine of the World Federation of the Deaf May 2000, Vol. 13 No. 1
http://speechcomm.la.psu.edu/faculty/daniels_article.htm


Teaching Infants to Use Sign Language. When 11-month-olds at an Ohio State University laboratory school want to eat, they don't have to cry: they can use their hands to sign for a bottle. As part of a pilot program, infants as young as 9 months old and their teachers have learned to use sign language. Ohio State University. January 27, 1999. Library: LIF-SOC. Keywords: INFANTS SIGN LANGUAGE COMMUNICATION
http://www.newswise.com/articles/1999/1/SIGNLANG.OSU.html

GESTURAL EQUIVALENCE (EQUIVALENTS) OF LANGUAGE
http://www.percepp.demon.co.uk/gesture.htm


News Articles

Look Who's Talking--with Their Hands.  By signing, even infants can tell you what's on their mind
by Diane Brady, Businessweek Online. Businessweek Lifestyle.  August 14, 2000 issue
http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_33/b3694165.htm


Special Needs

Signed Speech or Simultaneous Communication by Stephen M. Edelson, Ph.D.
Center for the Study of Autism, Salem, Oregon
http://www.autism.org/sign.html

Communicating With Your Baby by Barbara Roberts,  Adoptive Families Magazine.
http://www.adopting.org/AdoptiveFamilies/Communicating.html


Bilingual Children with Downs Syndrome by Sue Buckley
Down Syndrome News and Update, Vol. 1, No. 1, June 1998, pp. 29-30.
http://www.altonweb.com/cs/downsyndrome/index.htm?page=bilingualds.html

Using sign language with tracheotomized infants and children.
Hall SS, Weatherly KS.  PubMed/National Library of Medicine. Pediatr Nurs 1989 Jul-Aug;15(4):362-7
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_
uids=2587090&dopt=Abstract

Why Do We Encourage Parents To Use Signing With Their Babies?
by Sue Buckley. Downs Net.
http://www.downsnet.org/library/news_update/why_sign/
 


Recommended Sites

http://www.handspeak.com/
http://www.masterstech-home.com/ASLDict.html
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm


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