New Class! Look at Me, Look at You!

Did you know that vision is, in part, a learned behavior and not the automatic ability that most of us always assumed it to be? Like learning to grasp or crawl, controlling the muscles in the eyes so that they move together or focus appropriately takes practice. This class is designed to introduce parents and babies birth to 6 months old to fun activities that promote healthy vision development.

Come SEE what it is all about Monday September 20th at 6:00 to 7:00 pm! Please pre-register A.S.A.P. for this class at Our Little World.

Sign Requests - Avocado and Mango

Sign requests for today at Baby Play and Sign were for avacado and mango. Unfortunately, both of these are fingerspelled. If you want to make up an easy sign for your baby, go ahead and do so. What you could try is using the first letter of the fruit rotated against your cheek as in the manner of the sign for FRUIT . The sign for fruit is a "f" hand shape rotated against the side of your chin, so it would be an A for avocado, and an M for mango. Click on letters/words to see the signs. If something else makes more sense for your particular situation, for example if you cut up avacados a certain way, then you can use that in the sign. I slice an avacado lengthwise, and then twist the two halves to get them apart, so what I would use for my sign would be a twisting motion with my two A hands against each other, just like what I do with the avocado. Remember, our goal is communication, and little hands are going to have a really hard time fingerspelling these words!