I’m glad this worked for you, but would your thought be to use unique signs for each kid if each had a multi-month signing phase?
In particular, I would not use this approach too extensively if your kid may want to be able to communicate with others who work with kids—teachers at daycare, speech pathologists, many nannies, other pediatric medical professionals etc. I do agree that straight ASL isn’t quite right either. Our kid’s speech pathologist uses a lot of signs but chooses for example to use “car”—a fairly easy sign—for all vehicles since bus, train, etc. are more abstract or complex. This approach has allowed our kid to communicate with a range of people over the relevant time period, not just our household.
I agree the tradeoffs change a lot then! Our kids interacted with a relatively small number of adults, each of which didn’t interact with other baby-signing kids. If they’d been in a daycare that did baby sign we’d probably have tried to use their system.
I’m glad this worked for you, but would your thought be to use unique signs for each kid if each had a multi-month signing phase?
In particular, I would not use this approach too extensively if your kid may want to be able to communicate with others who work with kids—teachers at daycare, speech pathologists, many nannies, other pediatric medical professionals etc. I do agree that straight ASL isn’t quite right either. Our kid’s speech pathologist uses a lot of signs but chooses for example to use “car”—a fairly easy sign—for all vehicles since bus, train, etc. are more abstract or complex. This approach has allowed our kid to communicate with a range of people over the relevant time period, not just our household.
I agree the tradeoffs change a lot then! Our kids interacted with a relatively small number of adults, each of which didn’t interact with other baby-signing kids. If they’d been in a daycare that did baby sign we’d probably have tried to use their system.