Well, I promise to try to capture Fender doing one of his signs so you all can see. But for now, I just wanted to say that I added a link to the left, for a website with 100 basic signs. These are not "Baby signs." They are actual ASL signs, but I have found that I pretty much use ASL and if Fender prefers something different, he'll show me and we'll do that instead.
There is an ESI teacher who comes to work with one of the kids in Fender's class who is several months older but not speaking at all. And I get reports about how impressed the woman is with how well Fender communicates verbally and with sign language. She is trying to help teach the little girl both and Fender helps too.
Verbally, Fender can now tell you that a cow says "noo" instead of moo and a cat says "now" instead of meow", but a sheep actually says "baa". He just absorbs everything he sees and hears. He is such a little sponge.
This morning he was showing me his sign for "bird" with his little index finger and thumb opening and closing together like a bird chirping. I almost didn't realize he was doing it. I got his big blue bird down from the shelf and he smiled real big and kept doing his sign.
He also signed "grandma" this morning (yea), but this one is different than ASL because I made it up on my own before looking it up. Just for future reference...signs for females are typically at the cheek or chin and males are at the forehead. I used to know that. Oops. :)
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