Signing in as September signs out.
The message for the month is SIGN, SIGN, SIGN. Write me after you read: (susan@susanschaller.com)
If Deaf babies signed from the crib, they would be equal to all other babies, learning language, relating and communicating to their families, accessing education and cognitive stimulation (bed time stories, counting games, linguistic play,...) and community.
Please help me spread the word to your local doctor, PTA, EVERYONE: "visual language for visual babies" regardless of what else the parents and doctors are deciding. Sign and mime and visually communicate to that little baby while it is being tested and prodded by the medical experts.
All babies need and want language. [To all of you who have nothing to do with serving the Deaf community, I know this seems obvious, but were you to consider a career in deafness, your common sense would be washed out of your brain. Please tell your neighbors, friends and doctors that the medical world usually tells new parents of deaf babies NOT to sign to the baby as it interferes with speech learning (WRONG/error - please correct when opportunity arises)].
Keep on telling good stories about bilingual Deaf kids (who have a signed and spoken language).
Thank you, ahead of time, for any help, suggestions, and comraderie that you can send me;
susan schaller at susanschaller.com
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