Parenting with Sign Language

I adopted a barely three, little girl from China. She could understand Chinese, but couldn't speak it due to cleft palate. I spoke no Chinese. She screamed for a few weeks until I thought of teaching her to sign using Signing Time videos. Her world exploded. She could tell me what she needed and wanted. I could tell her stories. Signing is a wonderful language.

Growing up with deaf parents, I still remember the day I realized you didn't have to see someone to communicate. I was five and my brother was three and i heard him sneeze from the other room and automatically said "bless you". He heard me say it and came in really confused, because in our minds we HAD to be able to see eachother to communicate. We spent the next few hours yelling to eachother from different rooms just because we thought it was so cool that we could 😂😂

What amazes me is how she is able hold her baby so well and also sign clearly. Mothers are amazing

Did I watch 29 minutes of deaf couples raising kids? Yes, yes I did and I don’t regret it

The flashing light for when the kids are crying is a really great device. It's such an obvious solution but I always wondered how they were going to hear the kids crying.

so cute when the boy replied sorry in both sign and speech....

Its so funny how the mom does "the child voice" even when signing. I can see it on her face. Sign language is beautiful; I really want to learn

Whoever did the voice acting was really good. You could just tell how much enthusiasm she had in her voice

Deaf culture is a thing that should be recognized and celebrated more because I don’t think a lot of people even know it exists and it is a beautiful thing. Language creates culture and deaf culture is a great extreme example of that.

I have no idea why i am watching this but it is really intresting to see their world.

I always preferred voiceovers over captions because with captions it’s distracting and I can’t look at their hands to see what they’re saying, but I can with voiceovers.

The scene at the childcare broke my heart. I know Victoria's definitely used to it in her everyday life, but especially if the child's been there a while surely ONE educator would've bothered to learn basic conversation to help the family

They should make children learn it in more preschools while they are little

My husband and I aren't deaf but we used some sign language (maybe 15 signs) with our two daughters starting at about a month old. It was amazing to have them be able to communicate so early, before speech! As they got older they could communicate their needs so much better than others their age and they were both early talkers, using multiple word sentences earlier too. People were always amazed at their communication skills. It was really cute when they started talking, they would use signs at the same time as speech.

I felt bad for mum when the nursery teacher made the face at the camera to indicate she didn't understand anything. But mum kept so calm and got her to communicate effectively. Just wonderful.

Hey as long as you still are parenting, don’t let disabilities stop you from having a family. Good on you!

My parents are both deaf and I'm hearing but I learned sign language first! I ended up speaking English. I love this videos so much! I showed my mom and she laughed so much. Love you guys hope you reply

I would love to learn sign language

I really feel like schools should teach all children simple signs. Please, thank you, stand up, sit down, eat, drink, more, bathroom, etc. I use them in my classroom and it makes things easier to communicate with Autistic students.

My parents are deaf and I was born hearing! It really does put people into perspective that deaf people use their other senses like touch and sight much more then the average person. I once helped a woman who was deaf order food (I’m a cashier at a restaurant) and she was really surprised and happy to know that there was someone to communicate with rather then using a paper and a pencil. 😁