Hi all- I'm hearing but I'm sort of stuck and looking for feedback. I joined for a few reasons, one being the deaf community is amazing, and two, I'm the mom of a wonderful two year old little girl who is hearing and nonverbal but is so quick at picking up signs that I don't know how to continue teaching her. I obviously don't know asl other than the few hundred signs/phrases I've taught my daughter but I'm trying to learn as much as I can and would love any ideas or suggestions.
She does have a medical diagnosis that is genetic and lifelong and although it does not affect her intelligence, is does affect her ability to talk and she may never speak or may be greatly delayed, neither of which is important at this time- my main goal is to help her communicate because she has so much to tell us!
My problem is that neither my daughter nor I are deaf and so I've been unable to find resources that would help either one of us learn more other than a couple of great YouTube feeds online and the signing time series, which was a starting point but we have moved past that very very quickly. Although she does receive speech therapy, there are none in the area I live in that are fluent in asl and they can't find any place to send us for more instruction. When I've tried reaching out to a few gatherings of people who are deaf or have deaf family members I'm ignored because I'm hearing and have been told as much.
Sorry for the heavy post (and probably the over share). Sorry if this isn't in the right thread either, like I said- I'm just a bit lost right now. Thanks for any and all feedback!
She does have a medical diagnosis that is genetic and lifelong and although it does not affect her intelligence, is does affect her ability to talk and she may never speak or may be greatly delayed, neither of which is important at this time- my main goal is to help her communicate because she has so much to tell us!
My problem is that neither my daughter nor I are deaf and so I've been unable to find resources that would help either one of us learn more other than a couple of great YouTube feeds online and the signing time series, which was a starting point but we have moved past that very very quickly. Although she does receive speech therapy, there are none in the area I live in that are fluent in asl and they can't find any place to send us for more instruction. When I've tried reaching out to a few gatherings of people who are deaf or have deaf family members I'm ignored because I'm hearing and have been told as much.
Sorry for the heavy post (and probably the over share). Sorry if this isn't in the right thread either, like I said- I'm just a bit lost right now. Thanks for any and all feedback!