14 months old, week 4

Juli began to walk tiptoeing sometimes.

Emerging two-word utterances

On the last day of the last week, surprisingly Juli had begun producing a few two-word utterances.

This week Juli produced another two-word utterance such as dad/firefighter drive. Slowly one after another began to emerge more and more in the next days/weeks.

From the first babble to the perfect word

Dude was about to leave for work. I told Juli in ASL that Dad was going to work now. Juli responded in a perfect ASL production work, right-handed.

Long way back at the end of 6 months (at the babbling stage), Juli had been exposed to the ASL word work often prior to her first syllabic babbles ("5" handshape). Her first babble was recognized as work especially with the dominance rule (see "dominance rule" for more information).

At the one-word stage, Juli formed from the "5" handshape into the "A" handshape. She produced work with the "A" handshape with the "clap-like" movement. It was clearer and more identifiable.

Now Juli produced work with the dominance rule, that was her left hand remained stationary while the right hand moved.

Producing ASL words

The following words that Juli has used with references this week: goose (open handshape on the other arm), help, princess (20-handshape on waist level), water (20-handshape or sometimes flat-N handshape), dad/firefighter drive (two words) and some reguarly used ASL words.

Long awaited ASL word had reemerged which was mother ("A" handshape).

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