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How Sign Language has helped us!
There have been times when I thought my youngest son, Jeremy, would never talk. Would never be able to say, "I Love You, Mom". Falling back on my "old" interpreter ways, I remembered that the true experts, not just those who claim to be, have said that sign language can enhance and encourage speech in non-verbal children. Not only that, but even hearing, normally developed infants who are taught sign language during their first year, can have an average 10 points higher of an IQ than what they would have had without the sign language intervention. I myself attend a deaf & hard of hearing Sunday School class at Church. Not only to be involved in the deaf community, make deaf friends, learn more and more sign language as much as I possibly can, but I have noticed that I gleen so much more of the spiritual message having that visual imput as well as audial. My son needed another mode of communication. A year ago he told me he loves me for the first time. With the I Love You hand sign. He was 8 years old. That was a long, but well worth wait!
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