This morning I brought the binder we have created with Vincent’s signs in to day care. As I said, we took pictures of him signing, then we wrote an explanation as to how to sign it and if Vincent does it a little different we wrote it too. I put all the information in a simple powerpoint format, we printed it out and put it in a binder. If I figure a way out to do it, I will try to post it here too.
Anyways, I was not so sure how day care would react to actually having to work extra on this with him. Afterall, learning to sign sounds like a HUGE thing to do and also sounds hard. I am thrilled to say that they reacted very positively and will definitely go along with it. I suggested that we do 2 signs a week and maybe the kids can learn them together at the morning meeting on Mondays. Vince showed off a little by signing on cue and they were all amazed at how well he did the signs. As the kids are ca 9months - 3 years old in Vincent’s group there are many kids who do not speak. Vincent is the only kid with a special need in this day care. He goes there alone, without any extra person to help him out during the day. This is what we want and what works for us.
I am so relieved. And a little mad at my self that we did not get it all together earlier… But well well, nothing I can do about that now.
Question: All of you that are using signs, how do you work with this at daycare?
This morning I brought the binder we have created with Vincent’s signs in to day care. As I said, we took pictures of him signing, then we wrote an explanation as to how to sign it and if Vincent does it a little different we wrote it too. I put all the information in a simple powerpoint format, we printed it out and put it in a binder. If I figure a way out to do it, I will try to post it here too.
Anyways, I was not so sure how day care would react to actually having to work extra on this with him. Afterall, learning to sign sounds like a HUGE thing to do and also sounds hard. I am thrilled to say that they reacted very positively and will definitely go along with it. I suggested that we do 2 signs a week and maybe the kids can learn them together at the morning meeting on Mondays. Vince showed off a little by signing on cue and they were all amazed at how well he did the signs. As the kids are ca 9months - 3 years old in Vincent’s group there are many kids who do not speak.
Vincent is the only kid with a special need in this day care. He goes there alone, without any extra person to help him out during the day. This is what we want and what works for us.
I am so relieved. And a little mad at my self that we did not get it all together earlier… But well well, nothing I can do about that now.
Question: All of you that are using signs, how do you work with this at daycare?