As the Mother of a child now 12 who at 3 was diagnosed with severe verbal & oral dyspraxia with no language, I was advised to implement an AAC of some sort. I started with Signalong and I can asure you that I signed fully with my daughter - she responded with great enthusiasm, clearly relieved to have found a way to communicate with me & the rest of the family. It was a liberation for us all.
Mary
> That said, I have to confess that i have never succeeded in really
> 'selling' the signing idea to parents – despite some very hard trying.
> Like you, I have never seen parents happily signing back and forth
> with a hearing child who is not yet talking – or anything like that.
> Nor have I found a well controlled clinical trial showing that signing
> really is an effective stepping stone to spoken speech. Now I can see
> what seem to me quite powerful theoretical reasons suggesting that
> signing as a therapy is rather unlikely to have the sort of effect
> that is sometimes claimed, that its main effect is to reduce anxiety
> and frustration on all sides, and to give the parents a sense of
> involvement in a child's future. All worthwhile things of course.
> There are other sorts of augmentative communication of course apart
> from signing. But any one such step is a big one, and in the light of
> EBP, I wonder...
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