Re: I'm new and just saying hello!

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Mostly it is Ian and me signing. My husband struggles to remember

> vocabulary and to get his big hands to make some of the signs.

Finger spelling is

> tough for him. Our daughter signs grudgingly -- we've a whole story

there about

Jill, the deaf kids I know and Hayley, now that she is at a deaf

school, fingerspell like lightning. Somebody suggested to me to

fingerspell all the time - in the car when you pass road signs, etc,

etc. Just make a habit out of it wherever you are and eventually the

fs will speed up. I know its easier said than done, but I did try to

do this and now that I'm on the road a lot the fs practice is now sort

of rote.