一分关于父母与孩子在早期学说话的交流介绍
聋人社区活动中心将要在六月初提供婴儿手语的课程给那些感兴趣的组织或团队。

什么是婴儿手语？
最初在美国得到普及的婴儿手语是为了能够使婴儿和初学发音的儿童与其父母和照顾他们的人有简单的沟通，她被普遍认为可以提高孩子的智力发展水平并且帮助减少“烦躁期”对孩子的影响。（烦躁期是初学发声的儿童当他们不能将自己的需求充分表达出来时所遇到的困难和挫折及他们表现出来发怒等症状）

婴儿手语采取的是一种基于一些最基本手势而针对孩子父母的口语进行交流的方式（它绝大多数来源于美国手语指南）。在早期的研究显示那些仍不能在交流中组成口语单词的孩子正在逐步的发展其语言交流能力。根据一份观察资料所示，那些聋人的孩子因为在初学发声的时候经常接触手语，他们在语言交流技巧上所达到的里程碑要比那些只被用口语与其交流的孩子们所花的时间要短。在1990年末，俩名加利福利亚早期少儿研究员开始策划他们的想法并且研究在正常父母与其孩子们之间使用手语。这一研究结果是十分显著的，它直接导致这俩名研究员在研发婴儿手语来帮助父母提高其孩子在语言交流的潜能方面作出贡献。

研究
苏珊，琳达和凯瑟琳。在早期符号手语的发展作出巨大影响。
Acredolo、L.P. 和Boodwyn,S.W.。在幼年符号手语作出深远的影响。

聋人社区发展中心（在聋人特教学院附近）
北京市丰台区赵公口五间楼43号
(43路，7路公交车总站）
lanqing@deafbydeaf.org or jennifer.mclean@gallaudet.edu
Text Message: 0110108613522791274 Fax: 01101086167642180

An introduction to pre-speech communication for parents and babies

The Deaf Community Development Center will be offering Baby Sign classes to interested play groups around Beijing beginning in June. We will come to you at your regular meeting place.

What is baby sign?
First popularized in the USA, baby sign for hearing infants and toddlers and their parents/care-givers is believed by many to enhance intellectual development and help lessen the effects of the “terrible twos” (a time when toddlers frequently experience frustration and tantrums as they are unable to express their needs adequately)

Baby sign is a method of adapting some basic signs from a manual language, usually American Sign Language, to the spoken language of a child’s parents. Research (see links below) indicates that children who are not yet able to form spoken words are developmentally capable of language communication. Observations of infants and toddlers of signing Deaf parents have consistently shown that these children reach developmental milestones in communications skills sooner than children whose parents use spoken language exclusively. In the late 1990s, a pair of California early childhood researchers became intrigued with this idea and began to study the use of gesture by hearing parents with their hearing children. Their results were so remarkable that this led these two women to develop “Baby Signs” to aid hearing parents in enhancing their hearing child’s potential.

Research
Susan Goodwyn, Linda Acredolo, and Catherine Brown (2000). Impact of symbolic gesturing on early language development. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 24 (2), pp. 81-103. Available online.
Acredolo, L. P., & Goodwyn, S.W. (July 2000). The long-term impact of symbolic gesturing during infancy on IQ at age 8. Paper presented at the meetings of the International Society for Infant Studies, Brighton, UK. Available online.
Dragons’ House
Deaf Community Development Center
Wu Jian Lou, 43 Hao
Feng Tai, Beijing, 100075

For more information please contact:
lanqing@deafbydeaf.org or jennifer.mclean@gallaudet.edu
Text Message: 0110108613522791274 Fax: 01101086167642180
DeafbyDeaf is a non-profit organization operated by, and for, Deaf people.
All proceeds from classes go to support the “Dragons’ House,”
Deaf Community Development Center.
DeafbyDeaf conducts business in China as a sub-program of Huiling Community Services.