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Share your experience, discovery, or anecdote about using sign language (ASL, or any other signed language) with your baby.
What am I looking for?
Quality story or anecdote! I am looking for original stories or unique anecdotes. Or a hilarious moment of discovery, "kid says the darnest thing in ASL", first ASL words, tips, activities, etc.
Review
Contributions will be selected where fit. A submission may be edited before it's posted.
Submission
Send your submission in plain text. State which week (for under 12 months old) or which month (for over 12 months old). Include a short profile or bio to help with contexts.
Yes, even with no intention to submit for the website, you can still send to share with me. I love to hear every of your story.
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ASL milestones (L1)
- 0;0,0: Raising a bilingual child
- 0;0,1: Making first eye contact
- 0;0,2: Imitating movements and cooing
- 0;0,3: Using senses and technology
- 0;0,4: Acquiring language via interaction
- 0;1,1: Manual cooing
- 0;1,2: Following objects or people with eyes
- 0;1,3: First smiles
- 0;1,4: Using ASL nursery rhymes
- 0;2,1: Gaining more control over her body
- 0;2,2: Observing and listening to parentese
- 0;2,3: Exploring the world
- 0;2,4: Eye-hand coordination beginning; Exploring hands and objects
- 0;2,5: Communicating through body language
- 0;3,1: Gaze shifting between picture and ASL word
- 0;3,2: Communicating with eyes; Visually tracking 180 degrees
- 0;3,3: Bringing hands together
- 0;3,4: Grabbing objects within reach; gaze shifting
- 0;4,1: Gaze shifting between face and fingerspelling
- 0;4;2: Bringing hands to mouth; turn-taking
- 0;4,3: Playing contact eye game
- 0;4,4: Playing with hands, the precursor to babbling
- 0;5,1: Communicating by patting or tapping
- 0;5,2: The emergence of marginal babbling
- 0;5,3: Gaze-following turn-taking conversation
- 0;5,4: Distinguishing ASL words from animal visues
- 0;5,5: Paying attention to details
- 0;6,1: Learning the concept of object permanence
- 0;6,2: Beginning to understand what is being said
- 0;6,3: The emergence of razzy visues
- 0;6,4: The emergence of canonical babbling
- 0;7,1: Developing intentional communication
- 0;7,2: Developing an association of concept with word
- 0;7,3: Manipulating objects back and forth
- 0;7,4: The emergence of other syllabic babbles
- 0;8,1: Demonstrating constraints in syllabic babbling
- 0;8,2: The emergence of variegated babbling
- 0;8,3: Waving bye-bye
- 0;8,4: The emergence of pointing for direction
- 0;8,5: Connecting word to object or picture
- 0;9,1: The emergence of pointing for names
- 0;9,2: The emergence of finger babbling
- 0;9,3: Pointing at pictures for names
- 0;9,4: The early emergence of recognizable words
- 0;10,1: Emerging referential words: finish + music
- 0;10,2: Emerging ASL words: mother + music
- 0;10,3: Emerging ASL words: eat + more
- 0;10,4: Categorizing a group of referents
- 0;11,1: Responding to simple requests
- 0;11,2: Recognizing an ASL word in the video
- 0;11,3: Producing ASL words on torso; multipointing
- 0;11,4: Combining gestural pointing with ASL words
- 0;11,5: Combining an ASL word with razzy
