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<blockquote data-quote="buddy" data-source="post: 498285" data-attributes="member: 12886"><p>First, maybe teach her the sign for drink, smile. Kind of like more and want an please and no...sometimes a more general word can give her access to more. alternative communication systems?? you ARE doing an alternative communication system in sign language. the obvious advantage being no loss of electricity, portable (you never lose your hands) and you and hubby are on board. The disadvantage to signing when not in an deaf community is that she may have few people who understand her. At her age, being receptive to signs, I would stick with it and not add another system. I would pair her signs as you are doing with words ... little sounds etc... just single words right now because you are hoping she will imitate and longer sentences she wont know what to pick to try to say. (of course when just talking to her for a direction etc... use normal length sentences for a one year old)</p><p></p><p>As far as her frustration, that really does happen with kids her age. I think a problem YOU have is that she seems quite bright and has such good receptive language and KNOWS what she wants to say so she may seem more frustrated than your other kids have been??? But this is the classic age to have kids be frustrated because what they want does not match their language development yet. </p><p></p><p>The way we get kids to use alternative/electronic communication systems is to start with cause and effect toys like you push something to make something else happen, and luckily we have computers and ipads etc. these days to have them touch things and make them happen. They have those drawing pads for computers etc if you dont have ipads or other types of touch screens. There are baby computer programs (you probably have these) where hitting any key on the key board will make bubbles come out or catch letters and sing the abc's etc. These help lead them into that in the future if by 2 she is really not saying any words. But I am biased to sign language if the family is really willing to use it because the unlimited vocabulary is an amazing advantage and you can always pair it with electronics anyway. I would not write off spoken language yet. I have worked with many many many kids who at 3 barely can talk and by 4 they are (as we were saying before) not easy to shut up. </p><p></p><p>Just keep up the language growth. THAT is the most important thing that will affect her overall development in all areas. You are clearly a pro at that and she already shows she is probably developing within normal range there already. </p><p></p><p>Just an informal opinion not being there... hope that helps... I know there is another Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) here somewhere.... feel free to throw in any opposing opinions. this just happens to be my chosen area when I was in grad school and was working for a long time.... I love alternative and augmentative communication systems but of course we always hope we dont have to really go there for a child. It is far far more efficient to communicate through speech when possible (not talking about people who are deaf/hard of hearing here...that is a whole nother issue). </p><p></p><p>She is not even 18 months yet, so not time to panic but given her issues and sibs it is good to pay very close attention. You are doing everything right, in my humble opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buddy, post: 498285, member: 12886"] First, maybe teach her the sign for drink, smile. Kind of like more and want an please and no...sometimes a more general word can give her access to more. alternative communication systems?? you ARE doing an alternative communication system in sign language. the obvious advantage being no loss of electricity, portable (you never lose your hands) and you and hubby are on board. The disadvantage to signing when not in an deaf community is that she may have few people who understand her. At her age, being receptive to signs, I would stick with it and not add another system. I would pair her signs as you are doing with words ... little sounds etc... just single words right now because you are hoping she will imitate and longer sentences she wont know what to pick to try to say. (of course when just talking to her for a direction etc... use normal length sentences for a one year old) As far as her frustration, that really does happen with kids her age. I think a problem YOU have is that she seems quite bright and has such good receptive language and KNOWS what she wants to say so she may seem more frustrated than your other kids have been??? But this is the classic age to have kids be frustrated because what they want does not match their language development yet. The way we get kids to use alternative/electronic communication systems is to start with cause and effect toys like you push something to make something else happen, and luckily we have computers and ipads etc. these days to have them touch things and make them happen. They have those drawing pads for computers etc if you dont have ipads or other types of touch screens. There are baby computer programs (you probably have these) where hitting any key on the key board will make bubbles come out or catch letters and sing the abc's etc. These help lead them into that in the future if by 2 she is really not saying any words. But I am biased to sign language if the family is really willing to use it because the unlimited vocabulary is an amazing advantage and you can always pair it with electronics anyway. I would not write off spoken language yet. I have worked with many many many kids who at 3 barely can talk and by 4 they are (as we were saying before) not easy to shut up. Just keep up the language growth. THAT is the most important thing that will affect her overall development in all areas. You are clearly a pro at that and she already shows she is probably developing within normal range there already. Just an informal opinion not being there... hope that helps... I know there is another Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) here somewhere.... feel free to throw in any opposing opinions. this just happens to be my chosen area when I was in grad school and was working for a long time.... I love alternative and augmentative communication systems but of course we always hope we dont have to really go there for a child. It is far far more efficient to communicate through speech when possible (not talking about people who are deaf/hard of hearing here...that is a whole nother issue). She is not even 18 months yet, so not time to panic but given her issues and sibs it is good to pay very close attention. You are doing everything right, in my humble opinion. [/QUOTE]
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