Is my son too old to learn Sign Language?

It's never too old, nor too young.

The difficulty you might have at the moment is in forging the connection between movement and language on a more concrete level than he is used to, but younger people especially 3 and younger are much more able to adopt other languages, and ASL is a language.

It might be a bit frustrating at first, but if he is a hearing child, couple the words with the signs. He'll start using them, especially with some encouragement.

What can be frustrating with signing children though, is that when they do sign, and they are asking you for something, and you simply don't see them, you might have a child start crying because you haven't answered them simply because you didn't see them. This has happened to a friend of mine a few times with her daughter.

So, by all means, expose your child to whatever language you have access to. Even if they don't become fluent immediately, it will give them skills to learn other languages later in life.

That boat has already left the port. You ARE prejudice. They have told their "real mom." And from the sounds of it their only mom. So you married a guy with two kids but haven't bothered learning to talk to one of those kids yet? (You've known them for at least 14 months already, minimum.) Not a single word in his language? Why not just tattoo the word "prejudice" across your forehead? You are and you know it. If the inability to understand one single word from one of your stepsons in his own language doesn't convince you, the simple fact that you actually found a pseudo-article by a pseudo-doctor (how much do you want to bet that doctor doesn't work with deaf people and isn't even in the medical field?) to support your ignorance ought to do the trick. How many articles did you skip before you found one that agrees with you? Who cares if you "sound prejudice?" I'd be more concerned that I AM prejudice, and yet that doesn't concern you at all. It's all about appearances, huh? A 13 year old kid is trying to speak to a baby brother in his own language? You say the baby has nothing substantial to say, but I dare assume the baby has more substantial things to say then his mom judging from this. Have you not bothered to teach the baby to talk? After all, why talk if the best you'll get out of him is Momma or Dada? Is that stopping you? No? How about that? I suggest more power to the two teenagers for teaching their kid brother to speak, before step-mom makes sure the baby learns her prejudice against them. Then again, it is clear you don't like the teens. Marry the parent and you marry the kid. You didn't figure that out before you married the parent, so I suspect this marriage won't last until the baby enters pre school. It's clear the two teens have to bend every which way for your convenience, yet you haven't bend a degree to meet their needs. They may treat you nice. That's for their Dad's sake not yours. If they haven't figured out you are the evil stepmother yet, they will. Oh, and yes, "real mom" will hear it all, since that's the important thing in all this. And if you're wondering - since it's all about other people's opinion, not about the kids - no. I'm not deaf, nor is anyone in my family deaf. I simply loved the parent, so loved the kids. We've been married long enough now that we have grandkids older than the kids were when we married.

Start as soon as possible. The younger a child is, the more easily that child will be able to pick up languages. As we get older, we tend to lose that ability. That is why younger children tend to learn and retain languages faster than someone in their adulthood.

So, in order to answer your question, yes. He can still learn sign language.

You are never too old to learn sign language

Nope. He'll pick it up really well if you're diligent about it. You should look for the show 'Signing Time'. It teaches kids sign language.

It's never too late to teach kids anything. They pick up really quick. Their minds are fresh and free. Go for it.

u should wait till hes 2years old then start cause thats when they start developing the fastest