Re: Looking for a sign language tutor.....

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where do you live?

From: <agirlnamedsuess@...>

Subject: [ ] Looking for a sign language tutor.....

Date: Monday, March 30, 2009, 6:48 PM

For 5 year-old with apraxia. Must have sightspeed and also a working knowledge

of manually coded english.

We are on CATS/LIFELINK, but no tutors ever seem to be available. Can anyone

help me?

Thanks,

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hi susan

 

this is not a tutor, but maybe it will buy you some time.

i just got a sign language kit-- cards, book  and chart, with basic signs. ..  

it's called baby sign language, a practical guide for signing iwth your baby.  

allison mackonochi.

 

I know your boy is not a baby, mine either.   It is great.   $13 at barns and

noble.  I just bought it today for my niece but decided to keep it for maddy.

 

 

It includes 60 flash cards, poster and 96 page book.

I hope that helps. It is cheaper than a tutor.

 

 

sharon

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From: <agirlnamedsuess@...>

Subject: [ ] Looking for a sign language tutor.....

Date: Monday, March 30, 2009, 6:48 PM

For 5 year-old with apraxia. Must have sightspeed and also a working knowledge

of manually coded english.

We are on CATS/LIFELINK, but no tutors ever seem to be available. Can anyone

help me?

Thanks,

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Thanks Sharon. :0)

We have a ton of sign language books, and he probably know 500 signs already. We

just need a live tutor.

[Guest guest]

Toccoa. But it does not matter where we live if you know sign language

proficiently and have a webcam (along with free sightspeed download) and

Internet access. My son is homebound.

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[Guest guest]

You can also go to these websites for signing as well. We use sign language

with Trisha and most of what I have learned and taught Trisha was from those

sites plus a few more and the Signing Time Videos at www.signingtime.com

Now after many years of fighting the school for it, Trisha has a sign assistant

who works with her at school 4 1/2 hrs a day which is also helping her to learn

not just the signs but how to converse as well.

http://www.lifeprint.com/dictionary.htm

http://commtechlab.msu.edu/SITES/ASLWEB/browser.htm

Carol

Trishasmom

She isn't typical, She's Trisha!

From: sharon lang

Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 7:49 PM

Subject: Re: [ ] Looking for a sign language tutor.....

hi susan

this is not a tutor, but maybe it will buy you some time.

i just got a sign language kit-- cards, book and chart, with basic signs. ..

it's called baby sign language, a practical guide for signing iwth your baby.

allison mackonochi.

I know your boy is not a baby, mine either. It is great. $13 at barns and

noble. I just bought it today for my niece but decided to keep it for maddy.

It includes 60 flash cards, poster and 96 page book.

I hope that helps. It is cheaper than a tutor.

sharon

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it is addressed and may contain confidential, proprietary, and/or privileged

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Sharon Lang

From: <agirlnamedsuess@...>

Subject: [ ] Looking for a sign language tutor.....

Date: Monday, March 30, 2009, 6:48 PM

For 5 year-old with apraxia. Must have sightspeed and also a working knowledge

of manually coded english.

We are on CATS/LIFELINK, but no tutors ever seem to be available. Can anyone

help me?

Thanks,

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Ididn't read the original post but here is a suggestion for someone looking for

signs for themselves or their children to learn:

www.aslpro.com this site has a dictionary and you click on the word you want to

know the sign for and it shows you a short (3 second) video of someone signing

the sign...it has helped numerous times.

I also cannot say enough good things about " signing times " videos

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> You can also go to these websites for signing as well. We use sign language

with Trisha and most of what I have learned and taught Trisha was from those

sites plus a few more and the Signing Time Videos at www.signingtime.com

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> Now after many years of fighting the school for it, Trisha has a sign

assistant who works with her at school 4 1/2 hrs a day which is also helping her

to learn not just the signs but how to converse as well.

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> http://www.lifeprint.com/dictionary.htm

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> http://commtechlab.msu.edu/SITES/ASLWEB/browser.htm

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> Carol

> Trishasmom

> She isn't typical, She's Trisha!

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[Guest guest]

I started signing with my son when he was about 12 months old. He's severely

apraxic. Now he's 26 months old and he has acquired a few signs. I started with

the Singing Time dvds. It took 6 months of watching and repetition until he made

his first sign independently.

I also came across a great website called Signing Savvy at

http://www.signingsavvy.com You can see a video of any word being signed and for

a small fee, you get bonus material for eat work like memory hints and large

videos to see the details of the sign.

I feel that it is difficult to understand the signs from books. No matter how

good the illustrations a video is so much better.

Also, i think a tutor is great, just make sure that you and everyone around your

child is using the signs and are able to recognize them when they are signed.

Good luck,

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> From: <agirlnamedsuess@...>

> Subject: [ ] Looking for a sign language tutor.....

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> Date: Monday, March 30, 2009, 6:48 PM

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> For 5 year-old with apraxia. Must have sightspeed and also a working

knowledge of manually coded english.

> We are on CATS/LIFELINK, but no tutors ever seem to be available. Can anyone

help me?

> Thanks,

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Hi All,

My daughter was diagnosed with CAS and expressive language delay about two weeks

ago and one of the first things I did was go to Borders and purchase a book

called " Teach your Tot to Sign " , I also have two older boys (with no speech

problems), so one of the things we do every evening at the dinner table is learn

and practice 1-3 signs that will help all of us with our communication

frustration and it has helped alot.le takes medication every morning for

Hypothyroidism so one of the first things I taught her was the sign for

" medicine " and about 4 days later she used the sign, I was so suprised at how

much the little things like that have helped.I am also currantly looking for a

tutor who will teach the whole family at once, but just being able to sign

something as simple as juice, no, yes, come here, eggs,or shoes has made a huge

impact in our home.

Christian

[ ] Looking for a sign language tutor.....

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> Date: Monday, March 30, 2009, 6:48 PM

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> For 5 year-old with apraxia. Must have sightspeed and also a working

knowledge of manually coded english.

> We are on CATS/LIFELINK, but no tutors ever seem to be available. Can anyone

help me?

> Thanks,

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[Guest guest]

Try going to the public school system to find a tutor . We found one that

accompanies the deaf students during the school day and she comes to our

house for an hour Saturday mornings for $20 and hour.. not bad for the help

this has been to relieve my 10 year olds and my frustration..

s Mom

[Guest guest]

For those of you who may be getting outside assistance with sign language (like

a tutor), be sure to communicate with your tutor what sign system you are using

at home. Many of the " baby sign " books do not use ASL but rather what would be

termed " home signs. " In my opinion (as a former interpreter and mother of a

child with speech apraxia), it doesn't matter what you are using since in most

cases your goal is not to teach your child to communicate in ASL. Just be sure

that the person who is helping your family learn sign is willing to accommodate

any home signs or other signing systems you are using. Otherwise you will add to

the confusion and frustration if different people are using different signs for

the same thing.

http://markandcourtney.blogspot.com

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> Try going to the public school system to find a tutor . We found one that

> accompanies the deaf students during the school day and she comes to our

> house for an hour Saturday mornings for $20 and hour.. not bad for the help

> this has been to relieve my 10 year olds and my frustration..

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> s Mom

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That is a good website for looking up a word, but it is poor as far as

" interactive " communication.

Signing Times videos ARE good, but my son is past that.

We have developed a vocabulary and we are in need of someone to do

question/answer type scenarios. We are more at the stage for " language

development " rather than one word signs because after all, he is about to be

six. He should be communicating in some language at the level of of a six-year

old.

But those are great suggestions for beginning signers.

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> > You can also go to these websites for signing as well. We use sign language

with Trisha and most of what I have learned and taught Trisha was from those

sites plus a few more and the Signing Time Videos at www.signingtime.com

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> > Now after many years of fighting the school for it, Trisha has a sign

assistant who works with her at school 4 1/2 hrs a day which is also helping her

to learn not just the signs but how to converse as well.

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That is good advice because ASL gestures may be used, but the goal in apraxic

children is to create a bridge until they talk intelligible verbal language. So,

the order of the words needs to match the order of what you say to them.

We use SIM-COM (simultaneous verbage with signed communication). Our words match

our signs (for the ones we know). MCE (Manually Coded English) is another

similar name for this.

ASL, in it's entirety as a language, uses a mixed up order (like most foreign

languages) to convey the message. We are fortunate because even though we use

SIM-COM, my son can unscramble the ASL language and get the context from that as

well. He actually signed with a deaf couple in the community that we encountered

at the grocery store. For him, it was a positive experience because no one

(other than us) had communicated with him before in " his " language.

Knowing " signs " is not knowing " language " . The videos and books are ood for

vocabulary building, but in typical speaking people, single words are not used

alone. Words have to be put together and be used as a language in order to be

more meaingful. We are at the stage of " senences " rather than " just " words. We

still do use a variety of sources to beef up the vocabulary he uses and

eliminate frustration for not knowing the proper word to use for something (both

on his end and our end, because he is learning it from us only). But at some

point, one must move on single words such as

" more " , " eat " , " potty " , " mama " , " dada " , " cat " to something more like " I want

to eat icecream please. " or " Look, I see a cat on tv. "

At age five or six, I expect more from my son than single words, whether he

verbalizes them or approximates them with sign.

" Typically " , children who have verbal apraxia are not cognitively impaired and

are actually very smart (unless there is another accompanying issue); so, there

is no reason to " settle " for " my child cannot speak intelligibly " . With sign, my

son will have some sort of language, all the while hoping for a full recovery of

the damage in his brain that is causing him not to be verbally intelligible.

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> > Try going to the public school system to find a tutor . We found one that

> > accompanies the deaf students during the school day and she comes to our

> > house for an hour Saturday mornings for $20 and hour.. not bad for the help

> > this has been to relieve my 10 year olds and my frustration..

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The reason we need the tutor is because we are in litigation with the school for

failure to provide services in-home (homebound due to MD orders). I doubt the

school will help otherwise when they cannot even abide by IDEA.

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> Try going to the public school system to find a tutor . We found one that

> accompanies the deaf students during the school day and she comes to our

> house for an hour Saturday mornings for $20 and hour.. not bad for the help

> this has been to relieve my 10 year olds and my frustration..

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> s Mom

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You might check into DCMP (http://www.dcmp.org/). They offer services for deaf

and/or blind children and adults, but they may also have some resources for

non-verbal communicators. DCMP has a large FREE lending library of

VHS/DVD/online content with sign. While it is not the same as having one-on-one

interaction, it would give you more language-learning access than the Signing

Time or similar DVDs.

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> The reason we need the tutor is because we are in litigation with the school

for failure to provide services in-home (homebound due to MD orders). I doubt

the school will help otherwise when they cannot even abide by IDEA.

[Guest guest]

yes, DCMP does have some good software and videos for signing. I would

recommend the Bravo family videos that have quizzes after each lesson and there

are many others just as good. While it is always good to have 1-1 if that isn't

possible then using asl browsers and videos etc. are helpful. Also, using your

webcab is a good idea to " chat " with someone else to help you learn to converse

in sign. I was just wondering, have you checked with any of your local

colleges who might teach sign language to see if you can hire any of their

students to work with you? We went that route a few years back while we fought

to get a signing assistant for Trish at school. I would also check your

locality to see if they have anywhere where they have Silent lunches or if you

have a Starbucks near you check to see if they do a Deaf coffee chat.

Carol

Trishasmom

She isn't typical, She's Trisha!

From: mcolmsted

Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 9:47 AM

Subject: [ ] Re: Looking for a sign language tutor.....

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You might check into DCMP (http://www.dcmp.org/). They offer services for deaf

and/or blind children and adults, but they may also have some resources for

non-verbal communicators. DCMP has a large FREE lending library of

VHS/DVD/online content with sign. While it is not the same as having one-on-one

interaction, it would give you more language-learning access than the Signing

Time or similar DVDs.

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> The reason we need the tutor is because we are in litigation with the school

for failure to provide services in-home (homebound due to MD orders). I doubt

the school will help otherwise when they cannot even abide by IDEA.

[Guest guest]

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Thanks! I will check it out right now.

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-- In , " mcolmsted " <mcolmsted@...>

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and/or blind children and adults, but they may also have some resources for

non-verbal communicators. DCMP has a large FREE lending library of

VHS/DVD/online content with sign. While it is not the same as having one-on-one

interaction, it would give you more language-learning access than the Signing

Time or similar DVDs.

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for failure to provide services in-home (homebound due to MD orders). I doubt

the school will help otherwise when they cannot even abide by IDEA.

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I'm new to the site but I was reading your post and thought I would add that you

can really find alot of everyday signing words so you can teach him to sign

sentances yourself at sites like aslpro.com & lifeprint.com . I am currently

teaching my 2 yr old signing and sign in sentaces with every word I know and am

always trying to learn more signs for everyday type conversations .

Example: you said you wanted to have him learn - can I have an icecream

please.

You can easily find those signs on these sites and since your not worried about

learning proper ASL you can put them however you like it's just a matter of

learning the signs. They also have video demonstrating each sign so you can

learn it at your own pace.

Good Luck and I hope you get the help you need.

Tazza

> > For 5 year-old with apraxia. Must have sightspeed and also a working

knowledge of manually coded english.

> > We are on CATS/LIFELINK, but no tutors ever seem to be available. Can anyone

help me?

> > Thanks,

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Thanks Tazza. That is the way we have been doingit for five years now. Iam so

overloaded with stuff on my plate right now that I need to delegate some of

these things to other people. We have not gotten much help in 5 and a half years

and I have stretched myself so thin that now we are trying to rectify our issues

one by one. This is just one of them. I need some help emptying my full plate.

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> I'm new to the site but I was reading your post and thought I would add that

you can really find alot of everyday signing words so you can teach him to sign

sentances yourself at sites like aslpro.com & lifeprint.com . I am currently

teaching my 2 yr old signing and sign in sentaces with every word I know and am

always trying to learn more signs for everyday type conversations .

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> Example: you said you wanted to have him learn - can I have an icecream

please.

> You can easily find those signs on these sites and since your not worried

about learning proper ASL you can put them however you like it's just a matter

of learning the signs. They also have video demonstrating each sign so you can

learn it at your own pace.

> Good Luck and I hope you get the help you need.

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knowledge of manually coded english.

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anyone help me?

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[Guest guest]

I am sure you could also go to asha or asl sight and submit an inquiry.

 

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From: tbdevilish <tbdevilish@...>

Subject: [ ] Re: Looking for a sign language tutor.....

Date: Sunday, April 5, 2009, 5:36 PM

I'm new to the site but I was reading your post and thought I would add that you

can really find alot of everyday signing words so you can teach him to sign

sentances yourself at sites like aslpro.com & lifeprint.com . I am currently

teaching my 2 yr old signing and sign in sentaces with every word I know and am

always trying to learn more signs for everyday type conversations .

Example: you said you wanted to have him learn - can I have an icecream please.

You can easily find those signs on these sites and since your not worried about

learning proper ASL you can put them however you like it's just a matter of

learning the signs. They also have video demonstrating each sign so you can

learn it at your own pace.

Good Luck and I hope you get the help you need.

Tazza

> > For 5 year-old with apraxia. Must have sightspeed and also a working

knowledge of manually coded english.

> > We are on CATS/LIFELINK, but no tutors ever seem to be available. Can anyone

help me?

> > Thanks,

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That's a good idea. I might call them, instead of email, tomorrow.

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you can really find alot of everyday signing words so you can teach him to sign

sentances yourself at sites like aslpro.com & lifeprint.com . I am currently

teaching my 2 yr old signing and sign in sentaces with every word I know and am

always trying to learn more signs for everyday type conversations .

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> Example: you said you wanted to have him learn - can I have an icecream

please.

> You can easily find those signs on these sites and since your not worried

about learning proper ASL you can put them however you like it's just a matter

of learning the signs. They also have video demonstrating each sign so you can

learn it at your own pace.

> Good Luck and I hope you get the help you need.

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How are things with the school?

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[Guest guest]

-The lawyers are trying to get in touch with the doctors now to confirm the

letters. (SLOW SLOW SLOW)

And here it is April. No service still and I have two letters that specifically

state he needs evaluations and all therapies in the home. They balked at it and

told my lawyers to contact their lawyers.

In the mentime, Charlie Hart can tell you how old he is by sign and

verbalization approximation. He also can sign the number and street of our

address when asked, " where do you live? "

I have a kindergarten checklist that we are working through in order to get them

all accomplished by the end of this year. Some seem impossible. Some are easier.

-- In , sharon lang <flipperlang@...> wrote:

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You are doig great with him.   Keep up the good work.  Things never happen in a

timely manner when it comes to the school.    They drag their feet on purpose,

as far as I am concerned, so that they don't have to provide as many services.

 

I had a year with 6 iep meetings, nothgint ever got resoled.   they kept saying

we would have to have another meeting. i finally told them no, we would resolve

it via email.  in fact that is what i told them this year, send me all the

goals, we will work it out on emai, there is no change in placement.   i plan on

walking in signing the apperwork and leaving.   we'll see how well that goes. 

we still have esy to discuss.

 

 

anyway, we filed a doe complaint, and the school's answer was that they did not

know what to do to satisfy me as they had been so accomadative with all these

iep meeings.  hog wash.   they called the darn meetings, not me.  it was a stall

tactic.. we'll resovle that later.  hang in there.   it is their strategy to

wear you out.

 

 

sharon

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> How are things with the school?