ASL Dictionary
This web site is an American Sign Language (ASL) web-based dictionary. It is superior to most books because it uses a video to demonstrate a sign. Once you have selected a sign to learn, a small video will come up on the screen and a native-ASL model (woman in a red shirt) will demonstrate the sign in a repeating-loop video. browser. There is a short written description of how to make the sign.
This dictionary is by far the best of the web, to date. So go to it now: choose an animal sign you would like to teach your child eg: cow, horse, pig, turtle or zebra! Lift your hands from your keyboard and try forming the sign along with the signing model. Some signs are very easy to grasp while other signs require close attention (eg: turtle). You will have to watch the details of the handshape, and motion.
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm
Be sure to bookmark it!
Note: ASL Dictionary requires high-speed Internet and Quicktime Video player to work. Quicktime is a simple program installed on most computers. If your computer requires Quicktime to make the ASL Dictionary work - it is a free and fast download.
Try this:
Consider using the ASL dictionary to look up these signs, practise & use with your child while speaking the word in your first language spoken in the home (be it English, French, Spanish ... whatever):
eat,
milk,
more (use it when asking your child if they want more to eat; more pushes on the swing etc.)
finish (use when you mean "all done") eg; all done eating; when a diaper change is done!
Good luck!
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