There are many parents who think it trendy to get their children enrolled in the baby-signing program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But in the back of the mind, they suffer from the insecurity; will baby sign language interfere with their child’s speech development?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Does baby sign language deter verbal language in many cases? To find out the answer to your queries, just read in the article below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you ask any sign language expert or any Pediatrician, whether training in sign language may become a stumbling block in the speech development of your child, the undisputed reply would be NO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are instances where the signing babies crosses almost eighteen months of their life but still doesn’t show any interest to start a verbal communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This leads some parents to believe that signing training may have acted as a barrier in their child’s speech development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But these parents are wrong in their perception. How? Lets check!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n What do the experts have to say about the case of those few toddlers who have almost reached their second year without bothering to speak out a word?<\/p>\n\n\n\n The experts emphasize on the point that it’s a good sign that these babies are communicating, only they have chosen the sign language as their mode of communication and not the verbal language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So the real problem lies in the fact that their parents are worried because they thought by now their child would have learned to speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But renowned pediatricians are of the view, that there are many exceptions to the rule that a baby should be able to speak a certain number of words within a particular age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ask any pediatricians and they will tell you the huge number of variations in the rate of vocabulary and language development skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just look around and you will get to see yourself the children of same age but with different skill level of spoken language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While you will find one-year-old baby-talking endlessly, you will also get to find the children who never bothered to speak a word but suddenly starts to deliver full sentences when they finally decide to start talking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So never conclude anything, if your signing child chooses to communicate with the help of signing language instead of verbal language even after a certain age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Remember there is no scientifically proven correlation between late or early speaking with the child’s future capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Generally, the signing children make a quicker transition to vocal language than their non-signing counterparts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But even if your child is among the exceptional few, who don’t start speaking as expected, you have to provide her some more stimulants to talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You have to talk more to her and ask her questions and make it clear to her that she is expected to make a reply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Simply try to engage her in some kind of dialogue. The rule of the thumb is the more stimuli she receives the more likely she is to repeat it herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you keep on talking and singing together with your child, it will— as famous writer Acredolo would like to put it— flood the baby with language.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are many parents who think it trendy to get their children enrolled in the baby-signing program. But in the back of the mind, they suffer from the insecurity; will baby sign language interfere with their child’s speech development? Does baby sign language deter verbal language in many cases? To find out the answer to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1517],"yoast_head":"\n