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For any of you with children with speech delay, have you ever tried the Signing Times videos and using Sign Language?  Has it ever been suggested by a ST?  My daughter who is a pediatric PT had her two children now 5 and 3 watch only Signing Times videos as youngsters and her daughter in particular picked up and used signing before language started much.  For a time she combined both if she did not know the word, but say the sign as one time for bicycle.  As speech emerged, signing decreased.  She also read the same books to the kids nightly as she still does now on a different level which I think the repetition and familiarity with the same books helped with language with young children pointing to pictures, reading books that required to do something on a page etc.  I am only mentioning two strategies which might be considered.

Our youngest has a cognitive disability, and we can remember how many times we rolled a small red ball to her - hundreds if not thousands and said red ball.  We did not use signing, but we did go to speech year round for about seven years and then back at around age 13 for a year to work on greater clarity.[/quote]

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