learning sign language, touching babies

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Kate wrote:

>Possibly a stupid question, but here it goes. For a mild to moderate

> hearing loss, would a child (and child's family) benefit from learning

> sign language?

Hi,

My answer is I think you would definitely benefit, and could it hurt? I

ask because each family is different However, anything to enhance your

child's communication would be the main goal, I would think. When we first

started Hayley in a TC pre school program there was a language delayed

child in there who signed and spoke. . At her TC kindergarten, there were

several HH kids who were in the deaf/hh prek and k and then went ahead and

mainstreamed out into first grade - and the deaf/hh class was there always

as a resource. I know of another mom whose daughter has that problem where

she knows the words but her mouth cant form them? Anyway if the mom

teaches her the word sign, then she CAN say the word orally.

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wrote:

Deaf parents of Deaf babies touch their children more than

> > hearing parents of Deaf babies.

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> So can we please change the above to

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> " SOME deaf parents of deaf babies touch their children more than SOME

> hearing

> parents of deaf babies. "

> >>

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> My apologies for not clarifying this. A study from Galluadet concluded

that

> on the average, Deaf parents touched babies more than hearing parents.

>

Thanks very much for clarifying this. I was going to be angry and write

off line. One does tend to tap or nudge a deaf child more than a hearing

child. As far as affection goes - which is what I first thought you were

saying, Hayley's teachers think she must have A LOT of touching at home as

she is always hugging people.