Sarah Kushner's Baby Signs

 

By 14 months, Sarah understood all the following American Sign Language signs, and we'd recognized her producing the signs with asterisks (*).

 

For animated videos of the signs, see http://www.masterstech-home.com/ASLDict.html.

For more info on signing with hearing babies, see http://www.sign2me.com

 

Baby *

Ball

Banana *

Bath *

Bed ("Sleeping") *

Bicycle * : (Sarah loves to ride on the back of our bike. Sometimes she signs "Bike" to mean "go outside" but we clarify if we are going in the car or walking)

Bird

Book *

Car

Cat ("Kitty")

Change * (as in, "Diaper Change")

Clothe (as in, "Get dressed"):

Dance *

Drink

Eat * (she uses "Eat" for both "Food" and "Drink")

Finished * ("All Done")

Flower

Friend

Gentle touch * We do a variant where we softly pet the back of one hand with the other hand.

Go (as in, "Go outside")

Head * (by which she means "Hat")

Hear (used for any sound, including music)

Hot

Hurt

I Love You (version 2)

Milk * (used both for the drink and for nursing)

More *

Mother ("Mama") . We use a variant for "Mommy" where the open "5" hand touches the cheek instead of the chin.

No

Play

Please * (often used as shorthand for "More please")

Rain

Shoes *

Socks *

Stop (as in, "Stop doing that", especially hitting)

Telephone *

Thank you

Tickle

Toilet * (also used for potty and poop)

Touch

Walk :

Water

 

She also made up her own sign for "Swings/Playground", paddling both her forward-facing palms alternately over her head. We showed her the official sign (swinging index fingers) but she apparently thought it wasn't dramatic enough for something so exciting and important.