Thursday, March 13, 2008

Sign Language: more & finished

I know this seems to be a monopoly of Sam on this blog, but he's learning and doing so many new things every day and they grow up so fast. Grandma doesn't get to see these milestones and neither do a lot of others, though they see him frequently. Both of the girls spoke at least a little sign language and I believe it helped their speech development. I hope to do the same with Sam, although I haven't been as diligent with it. He has been saying "finished" for awhile now, but I don't believe he has connected the sign to the meaning simply because he does it frequently and not usually when he is actually finished. This was the first time he has said more though, he finally figured out he could get more if he did it. I guess we just needed to give him something he liked enough. He doesn't have the fine motor skills enough to make it "understandable," but as long as I know what he's saying, that's all that matters. What word should I teach next?