Re: Problem with some sign language

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You can look up signs on the net at the following web site.

ASL web site: Commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/index.html

Simplified Signs: www.simplifiedsigns.org

Ann

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hi diana,

i use PECs with my son for various reasons, rather than sign language

because (a) he is a very visual learner; ( his fine motor skills were not

very good; © his imitation skills were lacking; © PECs is easy, you can

use mayer johnson software to print out symbols or even cut out milk or

juice logos from cartons and she can point to whichever one she wants; (d)

the child need not memorise so many signs and can just point to the relevant

picture or words; (e) pictures / words are understood by everyone in the

family and people outside.

my son started with pecs and pointing and giving the relevant pictures to me

whenever he wanted something (eg. cookie or juice or milk symbol or picture

with words). gradually we would make him give us the picture and say the

sound or word before we gave him the item requested. now he can read (he is

5) and is commenting and tries to make conversation with me. while i

understand not all asd children are visual learners, many of them are.

there is no harm in trying to use pictures first, to help your daughter

along. i know that for my son, he picked it up so quickly. try it - you

have nothing to lose.

florence

[ ] Problem with some sign language

> Hi List,

> I am teaching my daughter sign language. Now, she

> knows the sign for " drink " , but when she does the

> sign for drink, I don't know if she wants milk, water

> or orange jus, sometimes I give her milk and she

> pushes it away because she wants water, sometimes I

> give water and she pushes it away because she wants

> milk. Should I teach her different signs for milk,

> water and orange jus or will that be too confusing for

> her??

> If not, what are the easy signs for milk, water and

> juice??.

> I appreciate any suggestions.

>

>

>

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> while i

> understand not all asd children are visual learners, many of them are.

> there is no harm in trying to use pictures first, to help your daughter

> along. i know that for my son, he picked it up so quickly. try it - you

> have nothing to lose.

>

> florence

>

An interesting point was made by a speech consultant that we had in (we are

in the early stages of diagnosis and setup of ABA/speech therapy/etc) to

test our child. This may only have relevance to people who are in the early

stages of lanuage development.

We mentioned PECS (which she liked very much) but she mentioned that a good

STARTING POINT with the PECS progam is for the PARENTS TO START USING IT

FIRST (along with the word/sign). IE: the parent grabs a picture of the CAR

and says " we're going in the CAR, johnny " ; or the BATH and say " lets have a

BATH, johnny " . Theoretically, it is akin to learning language from words,

as the child associates the picuture/words with an action that is taking

place and in-so-doing UNDERSTANDS that the sound/picture RELATE to the

action being undertaken and are therefore IMPORTANT TO LEARN - something

non-autistic kids do naturally, I was told.

There it is, for what it is worth. She mentioned that the steps are

important to go through for the child in language developement, as they can

lead to other things (like pointing and conceptualization (ie the BATH is in

the other room, even if we can't see it...)) Unfortunately, I have no idea

about how long one should do this before introducing the abilty to use PECS

to the child. I will post in a couple of weeks once the consultant has

returned to begin the speech program.

scott