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What is sign language?
Your personal experience with sign language: what made you decide to try it?
Who is best to teach it?
When is the best time to start, at what age and under what conditions if any?
How might a parent learn sign in order to use it with their child?
Is structure necessary or can they stop at first words to breach the gap of the frustration of children who have yet to develop active speech?
Are the signs standardized or do you invent your own?
What signs do you teach and in what progression? (i.e. starting with social signs like waving, or necessity signs like food and drink?)
How do you teach abstract signs, which refer to concepts or objects not immediately available for pointing to?
When does the child usually start responding to sign language and/or use it?
How do you build up to a more complicated sign language with multiple words and eventually structure? What structures are likely to come before others?
At what age roughly might a child go through each stage? Presumably first sign words come before first linguistic words in many cases or does the development of the concept of LANGUAGE (and therefore use of signs with structure) come more or less at th
At what age does a child usually stop using it? Does the spoken language come to replace it, or do some families continue to balance both in a form of bilingualism?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using sign with your child?

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