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Why I'm learning BSL. ✊

Adam Crockett 🌀 on June 30, 2020

Hey so I thought I'd talk about something unexpected. My son is now at 2.5.0 and by now you might expect him to be talking, well you'd be right he...
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Marcus

I am a native BSL user, it is my main language since birth and BSL has been the main language in our family for 5 generations continuously. I give praise to those who use it for their children to improve early cognitive communication and boose their receptions. Another positive thing is the ability to converse from 100 metres away, through the glass without any sounds and the ability of squashing multiple sentences into a simple quick burst of signs.

Kudos 🙌🏼

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Adam Crockett 🌀

Nice to meet you marcus, I'm currently able to sign maybe 20 words and my son, 26, which I'm still working out, as I say he's got his books. I am excited to get faster and you are right, it's way more efficient, I actually can't keep up with myself yet. Long distance must be super useful!

My partner wears aids and is getting noticably worse so there is a duel purpose, but mostly I think it's a wonderful language. My son likes to say biscuit a lot. 🤣

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Adam Crockett 🌀

Can I ask are there any code specific signs other than programmer or shall I work on my alphabet?

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Marcus

Nice to meet you too! There is a sign for programmer but we use alphabets for specific codes and languages so you're on the right track there. My advice is to keep practising the alphabets and go from there it will be much easier to pick up the signs and if there's no sign for a specific word we fingerspell it 🤗

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Sandor Dargo

Thanks for the article. It could be useful for my son as well.
Do you have some recommendations on where to start?

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Adam Crockett 🌀

There's a book called my first signs with an
ISBN 978-1-904550-04-4

Google that and you should see an illustrated book that's sort of like a soundboard only it's a book and in sign. We sort of just started doing a new sign every day only when he wanted to and preferably when he was around the thing we where teaching him. If nothing else he sometimes uses to book to point at what he wants to get biscuits and use the toilet etc.

I'm still growing so I can't tell you exactly how it worked but it sort of just happened, my partner and I where fully committed so that helped and we use the app 'sign bsl' it's okay as an app but I'm sure you all could do a great job on something like this.

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Sandor Dargo

Thanks so much, I'm going to check this out.

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Adam Crockett 🌀

I certainly can recommend some books as soon as I get him off to bed

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Sarah

I was just thinking about learning this today. What is the app you use?

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Adam Crockett 🌀

Sign BSL on play.

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Mike Talbot ⭐ • Edited

I needed to do this with my eldest daughter too (who is now 12), it was a great way to get her communicating. Best of luck with it and I think you can now sign more words than I can remember!