Good Questions and Sentences to create with these 15 words:

            The italicized questions and sentences are what you might say in English.  The capitalized words are how you would sign that question or sentence. Don’t worry if they don’t match up word for word.  ASL has a very different grammatical structure than English. For example, most pronouns in ASL (I, ME, YOU, HE, SHE and IT) are simply pointing in the direction where the person is located. “I and ME “ would be pointing at your self.

1. There’s daddy.   He is daddy.
     (point to daddy’s location) DADDY.
           
            You can replace the sign DADDY with MOMMY, BOOK, BED, COOKIE, MILK, etc.

2. Do you want to eat?
     YOU WANT EAT? (raise your eyebrows)

            You can replace EAT with other signs. For example, “Do you want milk, cookie, cracker, drink, book, home, sleep, bath?

3. Do you want more?
      YOU WANT MORE? (raise your eyebrows)

            You can add specific items at the end of this question. For example, “Do you want more milk, cookie, cracker, book, sleep (bed), bath, food (eat), drink, home?

4. Are you done eating?
    YOU FINISH EAT? (raise your eyebrows)

5. Do you want mommy? Do you want to hug or hold mommy?
     YOU WANT MOMMY? (raise your eyebrows)

The Importance of Gesturing and Eye Contact:

1.Be sure to make eye contact with your child while signing. It will take a while for
    your child to learn to maintain eye contact with you.  Give it time. It will happen.

2. It is also helpful if you sign near your face so they can see all the visual cues.

3.If you want to respond “Yes” or “No” start out with a clear nodding of your head for
  “Yes” and a clear head shake for “No”.  There are signs for these words but it always
    good to get in the habit of nodding or head shaking for saying/signing “Yes” and “No”.

4. Gesture and point as much as possible.

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