Sign With Your Baby: How to Communicate With Infants Before They Can Speak by Joseph Garcia

Author:Joseph Garcia [Garcia, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Family & Relationships, Infants & Toddlers, Life Stages, Language Arts & Disciplines, Infants, Video Recordings, Language Acquisition, Interpersonal Communication in Infants, Nonverbal Communication in Infants, Educational Videos, Interpersonal Communication in Children, Sign Language, Language Acquisition - Parent Participation, Babies, Nonverbal Communication in Children, American Sign Language, Video Recordings for the Hearing Impaired, Language Acquisiton
ISBN: 9780966836776
Amazon: 0966836774
Publisher: Sign2Me
Published: 1999-01-15T08:42:48+00:00

After a few episodes of searching for the pain, your child will get the message and direct you to the injured area without going through the entire search process. The search-for-a-shoe game

discussed later is a good way to introduce the WHERE and

SEARCH signs.

Kim was 14 months, and playing in the park, when she

stumbled and fell. Her mother jumped up from her bench, looked

at Kim and signed HURT? Kim shook her head "no" and went on playing. Later, when they had returned home, Kim was playing

with her rag doll. She fell again, this time landing on her doll. She picked up the doll and went over to her mother. Kim looked sad, so her mother asked if she was hurt, by signing HURT? Kim set her It's interesting that when asked WHERE PAIN?, some children

doll down and signed HURT over the doll. Her mother got a

point to the object that hurt them rather than showing where they bandage and put it on the doll. Kim picked up her doll and

are hurt on their bodies.

walked away happy.

When your children are hurt and you have no idea what

happened or where they are hurt, you can use the PAIN-WHERE?-

SOME HANDY GAMES

SEARCH sequence. You sign PAIN, and then WHERE? Then sign

SEARCH as you move the SEARCH sign around their bodies. I

Be creative and spontaneous with signing. Many signs can be

found it helpful to sign PAIN-WHERE? then touch my son's head,

used while playing games. HIDE, SEARCH, CATCH, and TICKLE

and sign PAIN there? (pointing to a spot). I would go over his

are some obvious ones. With three or more people, play hide

whole body in this way until he nodded his head, yes. This process and seek using the signs HIDE, SEARCH, WHERE, and TICKLE. One

was successful in locating the injury with many children.

person hides and the other person goes with the toddler and signs WHERE and SEARCH while looking for the hidden person. When

you find the hidden person, you tickle them. This may also be a good time to show the CATCH sign.

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