This blog is based in Northeast Ohio, what was "La Nation du Chat," the Cat Nation, as the French-Canadian furtraders called the Land of the Erie Indians. The blog will touch on many issues: nature, the environment, literature, poetry, society, and politics. Around here we think of the Lake Erie shoreline as the North Coast of the United States--a Frontier in the midst of the Rust Belt.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Colin's Tricks: Gestures and Signs
My grandson Colin only speaks a few words that I can clearly identify--his words for Daddy, Mommy, and Grandma, sounding like /da da/, /ma ma/ and possibly /na na/. Sometimes he seems to call me, his Grampa, something like /ah jah/. Amazingly, he has a larger repertoire of gestures, including a couple that are very close to American Sign Language (his own dialect of ASL!). The video above shows many of these gestures and signs.
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