{"id":4943,"date":"2015-03-24T14:55:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T20:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/summit-education.com\/?p=4943"},"modified":"2015-03-24T15:00:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T21:00:57","slug":"4-four-keys-to-signing-with-young-children-in-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/general\/4-four-keys-to-signing-with-young-children-in-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Keys to Signing with Young Children in Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Posted by Jill Eversmann <\/strong>(<a href=\"http:\/\/summit-education.com\/i\/272641\">upcoming workshops<\/a>)<strong>, <\/strong>Speech Language Pathologist, Sign Language Instructor. Owner, SPEECH SIGNS, LLC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/summit-education.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/jill_eversmann_blog_kidsigning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4944\" src=\"http:\/\/summit-education.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/jill_eversmann_blog_kidsigning.jpg\" alt=\"jill_eversmann_blog_kidsigning\" width=\"550\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/jill_eversmann_blog_kidsigning.jpg 698w, https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/jill_eversmann_blog_kidsigning-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><strong>1)<\/strong> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Start with signs that motivate the child<\/span>. For young children, these often revolve around food, drink and parents. Good ones to start with: <strong>Eat, Milk, Mama\/Mommy, Dada\/Daddy<\/strong> (&#8220;more&#8221; is helpful, too, but often overused. When the child is ready, teach the sign for the name of the item he\/she wants)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2)<\/strong> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Model the signs you are teaching frequentl<\/span>y. When teaching the sign for &#8220;milk&#8221;, use the sign every time you say the word. (&#8220;<strong>Milk<\/strong>&#8221; &#8220;Do you want some <strong>milk<\/strong>&#8221; &#8220;Here&#8217;s your <strong>milk&#8221;<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>3)<\/strong> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Use hand&#8211;over-hand assistance<\/span> to help the child make the sign. After helping him\/her make the sign, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">offer praise<\/span> for &#8220;asking for ___&#8221;. (if the child goes to the kitchen and is pointing to the cabinet or refrigerator, help him\/her sign &#8220;eat&#8221; then say something like &#8220;good job asking for something to eat&#8221; or &#8220;oh, you said &#8220;eat&#8221;, here are some crackers&#8221;, etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4)<\/strong> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Encourage vocalizing when signing<\/span> with hearing children when you are using signs to encourage speech development, especially at this early, single word stage. This means that you say and sign the word and also remind the child if he\/she doesn&#8217;t vocalize to &#8220;use your voice, too&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn more at my 6 hour <a href=\"http:\/\/summit-education.com\/i\/272641\">workshop: &#8220;Signs for Success&#8221; <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Posted by Jill Eversmann,<\/strong> Speech Language Pathologist, Sign Language Instructor. Owner, SPEECH SIGNS, LLC.<\/p>\n<a href='http:\/\/summit-education.com\/i\/272641' class='icon-button search-icon'>See Jill&#8217;s Upcoming Workshops<span class='et-icon'><\/span><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Jill Eversmann (upcoming workshops), Speech Language Pathologist, Sign Language Instructor. Owner, SPEECH SIGNS, LLC. 1) Start with signs that motivate the child. For young children, these often revolve around food, drink and parents. Good ones to start with: Eat, Milk, Mama\/Mommy, Dada\/Daddy (&#8220;more&#8221; is helpful, too, but often overused. When the child is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4946,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions\/4946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}