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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 09:24:11 EST
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- From: "Esther A. Paris" <esther@DEMAND.ED.RAY.COM>
- Subject: kids books recommendations requested
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- Hi there! I think that a request for sign language children's books
- went out before... but I'd like a list and I don't have one. So,
- if anyone collected such a list, please forward to me or to the list.
-
- I don't know exactly what I'm looking for... ASL-in-pictures or
- Signed English kids' books... I think for this purpose Signed English
- is best. I know Gallaudet U Press has a whole slew of Signed English
- kids books, but I'd like to know if anyone has used them, and if so,
- which are kids' favorites.
-
- The reason I'm asking is that dear friend's oldest son is dysphasic (?)
- for some unknown reason. They haven't got a clear diagnosis nor any
- really good theories. But he can't talk. They've started using sign
- language with him and he's a signing maniac, now! It's wonderful to
- see this beautiful child finally figuring out that communication is for
- him, too... not just something strange that adults do and adults respond
- to and adults seem to think he should respond to. He seems to hear
- perfectly. He's picking up signs left and right, and when he meets
- a person who really signs (his parents are rank beginners) he is
- mesmerized and soaks it all in. He's using signs for all kinds of
- things he wants to say. Right now he's just at the stage of using
- concrete nouns for common things, but he understands questions and
- instructions. He signs things first and as he figures out how to
- say a word that his parents understand, he'll start saying the word
- and drop the sign. An example of such a I-once-signed-this-but-now-
- I-can-sorta-say-it-so-I-don't-sign-it-now word is 'more'.
-
- Anyway, I'd like to get him some good kids' books with signs in it
- to expand his (and his parents') sign vocabulary. Can you recommend
- some to me? He's about three... and I'm not a parent... so I don't
- know what kinds of things three-year-olds respond to.
-
- He has two Sesame Street (with Linda Bove) sign books. But that's
- it...
-
- Any and all suggestions are welcomed. If you choose to send by email,
- I'll maintain a list and post it.
-
- Esther Paris... forgive me if this is only tangentially related to
- deaf-list's normal discussion fare... Raytheon EDL in Marlborough, MA
-