I have a 14 month old ds, we live in Sweden but I speak English to him.
He has some words, pappa, mamma, wow, woof-woof and a few others. We have started using some signs with him as he seems to be wanting to commute more and more.
He understands instructions such as can you put the teddy on the table and he responds by pointing if you ask him questions such as where is the dog? He seems to understand both languages equally.
He can sign all gone, more, finished, boobie and a couple of other signs, when he signs he doesn't tend to try to say the word at the same time.
Today he signed more boobie, I'm really pleased for him that he can communicate but I'm also worried that if we teach him signs he will not push himself to communicate verbally in either English or Swedish.
Does anyone have any advice/experiencethey can share?
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can baby sign language delay speech?
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ikeaismylocal · 10/02/2014 18:17
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