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Jane EB Smith Family friend couple adopted 6yo girl from Ukraine who could speak only ukrainese. Adoptive parents spoke a little russian but -even though ukrainese and russian are related lingos- it didn't give much help at start. The girl was sort of traumatized and had horror/panic seizures almost every night. The situation got more worse when she couldn't tell her new parents of her thoughts and feelings related to her past. Her new mother had worked in preschool where FinSL (Finnish Sign Language) was taught to kids who had speech problems/delay and there the parents got idea to teach her signs -especially ones related to mood and feelings- so the communication block could be shattered quickly. About 1/2 an year later she already spoke/understood Finnish at basic level but she still liked to use emotion signs like "to love" and "friendship" accompanying her speech :-)

Jane EB Smith that's amazing

+Mr J. Kottari bullshit

Jane EB Smith that's honestly so cute

Lol lik yeah ohhh😂😂

Lexita Mai Ah, that’s so cute.

Lol ths comment still kills me so funny 🤣🤣😊

😂😂😂😂

Hahahaha!

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So are fathers :-)

At least she doesn’t have to endure the noise of the cries

amen

Julia Leigh true :)

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Bill Vicars has a good KZfaq channel for starting to learn ASL :)

oh, I had meant to look if youtube had some good channels. Thanks for the info! (i want to learn sign language so much, but I am SUCH a slow learner)

Zetamoon me too! Just keep at it.

Zetamoon I started learning sign language and now I'm so obsessed with it even though you maybe a slow learner it is definitely worth learning!!

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Madison George I had two deaf parents, but now I have one because my mom passed away.

Madison George total opposite for me - my mom is blind! The one thing I keep wondering is how totally Deaf parents know when an infant in a different room is crying/injured, especially when asleep? They’re great at figuring out how to manage so many other things that I’m sure it’s not an issue, but I can’t think of anything besides getting up to check on them constantly.

@@lindsaysheffield One of the mom's had a baby monitor that flashed when the baby cried.

Me too, my mom and dad are both deaf too. It is fun to be their child seeing how the world of Deaf and Hearing differ. And you can see how amazed people were whenever encountering us. Thinking about the future seems to be heavy for me, i have to be wiseful on my decisions and be responsible because no one is there to look after them but me and especially since i am an only child. You have to mature earlier, thats why i have difficulty relating to my group age. Despite all of those things, what the nice part of living with both of them is that it gave me a sense of purpose. Love them both and would not trade them for anyone.

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@@iLoveIsaE 25:02 I think

That's typically how hearing people sign..........

@@eliseangell7763 its sweet because hes three. Bilingual ppl will never stop being amazing

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Mina Matsu facial expressions are a major factor in sign language

Yeah you have to have facial expression because you cant raise your voice to ask a question and stuff and Some signs are the same handshape but different facial expression

@@cgh959 Yeah. I can't quite recall but I think it was my middle school principle who knew sign language. So after school, we would take lessons from him and he always stressed that we have to show facial emotion. We even did eyebrow exercise and I remember always failing due to how stiff I was.

How😂 this is there language, now if they said I'm shocked at how hearing people can speak lol

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I'm taking a class to learn ASL this summer :)

I'm 12 and I can sign because it was the first language I learnt because both of my grandparents are deaf I find it fun but I don't know all of it but I can work out what my grandparents are saying easily 🙂

Corissa Smale hey in my highschool we can learn sign language and get highschool credits and my friend who is deaf is teaching and tutoring me it's really fun and I totally agree that you try it

Grey Likes Cats i can sighn just because i taught myself for my brother because they said he was deaf he can hear

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Galax my mom used to teach the kids at the local preschool in our city and they always used it. The parents had to come and learn some ASL because their kids were using it all the time.

Galax And older. I did not need a full seven years of French

Galax it’s different when your kids are majority, of not all hearing at a center (not for the deaf). I’m a preschool teacher + we’ll use signs like “stop” the most + verbalize it. But we also use signs like “play.” We use it more when talking with a kid who doesn’t have English as their first language or had a speech delay or is non-verbal (but not deaf). We’ve never had a deaf kid at our center, for as long as I’ve been there though.

My primary school and high school teach sign language. 🤗

Joey Mayes agreed! My oldest had SO much he wanted to communicate and just could not get her mouth to catch up. Cue daily meltdowns! Then I learned and taught him basic ASL signs, tada! Meltdowns drastically cut down and a much happier baby. Best thing ever.

"hearing-impaired" and "mute" are both slurs to Deaf people. No one wants to be called "impaired" and muteness is a psychological condition. Everyone in this video are speaking-just a sign language-so they are not mute. "Hard of hearing" or "deaf" or "Deaf" are the terms you will want to use. Never use "hearing-impaired," "deaf and dumb" or "mute" when talking about d/Deaf folks, please!!!

Dávid Danos actually hearing impaired is a thing for people who have a hard time hearing but are not completely deaf

@@danachos it depends on the community and where you come from. The deaf community does not like being called hearing impaired and that should be respected, but visually-impaired is a phrase many blind (or legally blind) people prefer to use.

@@Lundy.Fastnet.Irish_Sea Indeed, and sorry. I was trying to run with the phrase "nobody wants..." rather than being specific. You are of course right, whereas D/deaf may not want it, many who are blind do. Cultural differences...

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it really is and I enjoyed it

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Laura S. my family has been using that way for a while. All of our babies either speak early or have very good communication skills because they were confident about communicating early..

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That's the same thing my parents did with me! I'm not deaf and neither are my parents but my mum did know some sign because of teaching deaf kids so she taught me a bit of sign while I was still little. Apparently it was really useful for my parents to know what I wanted without whining about it.

My daughter was delayed in her speech so she was taught how to communicate with baby sign language. It was so cool

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Check out deaf poetry. Totally awesome.

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With my daughter who has autism and initially could not verbalize, we used PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) in which each word had a picture or action. We keep it in a folder that was accessible to the child, parents, teachers, etc. This would also be quite useful for those children who have deaf parents in the school and home setting. It can be, and often is, used along with sign language.

Yeah in this day and age I don't see why communicating would be hard. Grab a piece of paper and write your question or shoot the teacher an email. Gesturing like that to talking about toilet training plans is ridiculous.

That really bothered me, as someone who works in Nurseries. There's more than one way to communicate, it's a shame the nursery didn't even seem to try.

@@ayanhart You think? I was actually thinking it was unreasonable of the mother to be trying to have a sign language conversation with the teacher! It'd be like someone accosting you and asking you questions in Japanese! Even if you knew the parent spoke only Japanese it wouldn't make it any easier to understand and answer them. Don't get me wrong, I feel for the mother here. It must be very lonely. I just think there are better ways (ie, in writing!) to discuss important issues such as potty training. I actually think hats off to the teacher who'd clearly been trying to learn the basics to help the little boy transition.

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Michelle Xie Seems he has a good role model. That Jerrod sure stepped up to the plate, being it was a new relationship, unplanned pregnancy.

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Alexandra Giesbrecht that's a rlly good idea lol I wouldn't have thought of that

sanjay vardhan it’s sad that ur trying to find someone over youtube

The deaf parents I know do exactly that, they always carry pen and paper, or nowadays their phones. Signing or gesturing may be clear for deaf people, but it's not for us hearing folks.

Definitely we do that for parents of different languages they all know small English but enough to get point across

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erin average What they do is give them a sign name that represents something about themselves.

They finger spell it, and deaf people learn how to read lips and Can voice names with help of speech therapy. To make it easier for children they give them a sign name, but for official purposes they finger spell their names and rely on how the name looks, not sounds

I was given a name in sign language when I once visited a school for deaf in Thailand. I don't think it means anything, I think it was given to me because I have a strange/pronounced chin. The sign is just grabbing your chin twice. I learned about 10-20 signs, and I learned about 10-20 Thai words as well, on my holiday. The funny thing is how much easier it was talking to the deaf kids than talking to hearing Thais, even though I knew about the same amount of words, but also how much easier it was for me to remember the signs than to remember verbal Thai words.

Having been involved in the Deaf community for a number of years, Deaf Parent’s give their children names just like a hearing person. Parent’s will teach their children to fingerspell their name just like hearing children are taught to spell their name. Then when they are older and characteristics start to shine that are noticeable, then that is where the sign names come in. It is fascinating. I always tell people that if you are curious about any aspect of Deaf culture find a way to get involved in the community. There are always Deaf Events one can attend and maybe take an ASL 1 class (or whatever Sign Language is used in the place where you live).

Twichl I think it vibrates as well

Lol i never even thought of it. Its because im used to watching videos of older Deaf people

well I don’t know how well calling would work out

@@unicornpisssss yes, a call would probably still be a text message through TTY.

@@unicornpisssss lol

Liann Daalder I know it would easier. I had a customer who used asl. We had to be patient and double check she got what she needed. Writing and learning a little on our own.

or just have a laptop ready. with practice, you can type almost as fast as you speak. the preschool should have made an effort to bridge that communication gap

In one part, you can see the teacher signing "Mommy's going home now" to the kid. So they are trying a little.

Liann Daalder Exactly what I was thinking!!

where I work we have a few deaf customers, it takes a bit longer, but it's workable. Some like to write, others like to gesture and mouth the words. For more specific things, writing or typing definitely works better

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Anastasiya Hoefflinger Id assume theyd treat it the same as kids whose parents speak another languge at home but they speak both. If you grow up in a country that speaks english, youll learn it regurdless of what you speak at home. Im sure they still watch tv, and hear others talking outside of their home and its likely their other family members can hear so they can communicate through speach. They may be more comfortable with sign when they first start school, but theres no reason they should be able to speak and understand the spoken languge any differntly than others.

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Me too!

Ify Chiamaka I can

Ify Chiamaka. Awesome video

So do it! You could start by looking up videos on youtube.

Ify Chiamaka u can looking on Google type put word "sign laugauge" but depend on which counties where u live in also can download app find different sign language

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dont you hate your parrent for ruining your life?

@@kongkarry how could her parent possibly ruin her life? her parent tried their best to raise her even if they couldn't do it easily because of their struggles.

@@kongkarry her parents taught her to be bilingual!! That's a gift, not ruining her life.

Absolutely! I'm so grateful to be able to enjoy the best of both worlds.

TaeKEYyoung X people stare at my friends and I when we’re signing all the time.

Mrs. Stancil i think through grandparents, cousins, etc

Mrs. Stancil schooling. a lot of hearing kids to deaf parents go to speech therapy when they're very young.

Extended family, friends, babysitters, neighbors, other people

My parents rarely spoke English at home, yet by the time I was four it was my native tongue and I spoke it better than my parents' native language. Of course there's an extra jump since they have to learn to control their voice and pay careful attention to what they hear, but they can learn like other bilingual kids do - from all the other people in their life besides their parents. As long as their parents are aware and make an effort to help them form relationships with other (hearing) people from a young age, they can grow up bilingual.

Language is an innate ability (this is why all babies babble, even if their parents have never spoken to them), their first language is only developed further through the baby/child's life from what their surroundings are. Babies have a phonetic window, which is a period of time where their brain is discerning phonemes or specific sounds in their environment and learning to recognize them. For example, English versus French have some sounds that are the same, but some that are different. Which is why a toddler who speaks French may be able to say an individual sound, without knowing any words really, which a better pronunciation than a second language French speaker! So like the other people said, as children would be surrounded by other speakers, they would learn the language that way.

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uncommon specimen everyone is different, but i was fluent in 1 1/2 years

Neck Deep Jay To get good at most things it takes years. Start now and you'll be fluent before you know it!

It doesn't take years to start learning. If you watch learning to sign videos on KZfaq, you can pick up your first few signs in a few minutes. If you practice every day, and learn a few new signs every day, you can learn quickly, enough to communicate on a basic level - especially if you learn the alphabet and fingerspelling.

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Faith Brown Almost everyone has a smartphone, why not just write on that, if you really have to talk to someone urgently?

Chocolettino it's also about the language itself.

Chocolettino because if you are frantic you may not be able up type

Chocolettino or why not add sign classes so that schools become more inclusive rather than ignoring someone’s form of communication to type on a phone which is still segregating them and taking away their voice

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creativecompanion true. We hearing people are so disconnected now.

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why?

May Morgan I have Kindergarteners and next year I'll have 4 year olds my kids are all hearing so they loveeee when I teach them sign language

Dalyla's Life That's amazing. I'm actually trying 2 teach my nephew some sign language

At very least, I think more teachers of younger kids should know Makaton

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Tammar D'Acosta I'm in between both worlds of hearing and deaf. I used to worry when I was younger about losing my hearing, but as I get older, it doesn't bother me. I sometimes prefer the quietness of being deaf, but I also love my music in the hearing world.

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cal I agree. You really have to engage each other in the conversation.

Why is it always the deaf persons job to accomodate? They didnt ask to be born deaf. Educators should just learn ASL

@@cyagami90 Because they know English? Why the hell should everybody around them be forced to learn a sign language? That is an incredibly rude demand!

꧁༺Alyssa༻꧂ I am a teacher and know a little bit of sign language. Most everyone who works with me also knows a little bit. My boss knows ASL fluently. We have a few deaf parents and kids and for the parents, we usually write stuff down in order to have conversations. So it goes both ways.

@@cyagami90 There are ways to accommodate without learning an entire language to accommodate a relatively tiny community, which seems like a rather absurd request

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Erin Lowe Thats so sweet, you're comment made my day so much better:)

Franziska Lange for not being good at speaking English your comment is really good

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Don't give up, English is a difficult language, and just from your comment you seem to be doing very well! Keep up the good work!

Franziska Lange, Your doing very good! English is difficult to learn but good luck! :D im learning Sign Language (bsl) at the minute

Franziska Lange emglish os one of the hatdest languages to learn, so don't worry about being bad at it.

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5foot two You should totally learn your country's sign language! I bet that would make her day to be able to talk to another mom and also provides as a very useful skill for you to learn.

So why not learn sign language? Its really a simple solution

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I agree but I thought the mom could have written it beforehand if she knows they don’t speak sign language.

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La Guera Tamalera that makes so much more sense!

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I thought they were Australian.

So did i😂

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Queen Areanna You can do it ! I took classes through my city parks and recreation. It's really fun.

Queen Areanna do it! You won't regret it. Even if it's just "how can I help you?" Or asking their name. Learn letter signs, learn how to introduce yourself, or how to ask them to repeat themselves or sign slower. It's easy enough to learn the basics, and most deaf ppl will understand if it's not fluent.

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Kaitlin Ski deaf people can enjoy music too. They can't always hear it, but they feel it. That's why there are deaf interpreters at concerts.

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