Lisa loves Pooh
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 18, 2004
Hi--I haven't posted in almost a year and a half but have a pressing need that I am sure those here would be experts.
My son shows signs of speech apraxia and has been in Speech Therapy for almost 6 months.
His receptive langague is off the charts as he is not deaf and follows verbal commands and conversations with ease.
His expressive spoken langauage is almost absent at 25 months. (He has only recently started some babbling)
We have used Signing times and he has flourished increasing his expressive langauge by leaps and bounds using ASL.
All that I have found is that Disney offers ASL interpretors, but we don't need one as my son is fine.
All I am looking for is a cheat sheet or something so that we can tell him the signs for things so that he can communicate himself.
Any idea what I can do or seek in this regard? Should I call ahead? Can I meet with an interpretor? Do they have a guidebook with signs published? I'm a bit of a purist b/c I do want the staff to be able to understand him to some degree so I don't like making up signs if there is an existing sign and my understanding is that Disney has signs made up for everything in their culture.
Thanks for any suggestions.
We are traveling Memorial Day weekend and I was hoping to get signs ahead of time so that we can learn with what we have at home.
I have found the signs for Mickey, Donald, and Goofy.
(This is important b/c my son always wants to know what something is and seeks the signs.)
My son shows signs of speech apraxia and has been in Speech Therapy for almost 6 months.
His receptive langague is off the charts as he is not deaf and follows verbal commands and conversations with ease.
His expressive spoken langauage is almost absent at 25 months. (He has only recently started some babbling)
We have used Signing times and he has flourished increasing his expressive langauge by leaps and bounds using ASL.
All that I have found is that Disney offers ASL interpretors, but we don't need one as my son is fine.
All I am looking for is a cheat sheet or something so that we can tell him the signs for things so that he can communicate himself.
Any idea what I can do or seek in this regard? Should I call ahead? Can I meet with an interpretor? Do they have a guidebook with signs published? I'm a bit of a purist b/c I do want the staff to be able to understand him to some degree so I don't like making up signs if there is an existing sign and my understanding is that Disney has signs made up for everything in their culture.
Thanks for any suggestions.
We are traveling Memorial Day weekend and I was hoping to get signs ahead of time so that we can learn with what we have at home.
I have found the signs for Mickey, Donald, and Goofy.
(This is important b/c my son always wants to know what something is and seeks the signs.)