Pueblo Q: How do you feel about teaching children to use sign language before they speak? Do you think it holds any merit that a child will excel at a quicker learning rate?
Probably not. It has been shown that children who learn to sign from signing parents begin by babbling with their fingers, at just the age that speaking kids babble out loud. So it could sharpen some skills, I guess, but maybe not more than a second spoken language introduced along with the first one (as happens in many bilingual families).
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