what age is too old to start teaching your toddler American Sign Language?

never too old! the younger the better! (: they say you can start teaching your baby ASL before they can talk, even as early as 3 mos. A two-year-old would love learning it though (:

That doesn't sound too dangerous. I know our 20 mo. Has handiest just lately been pronouncing more that a few basic phrases. As i'm definite everybody's been telling you, they all develope special advantage at one-of-a-kind rates. Undoubtedly late language developement can be a purple flag to a situation. But when that's the best pink flag, then it most likely manner the whole thing is quality. The fact that you list he seems to comprehend your phrases looks as if a good indicator that there is no extra common drawback. BTW, according to my family, I did not begin speaking until I was about 3yo. The only 'permenant' outcomes I appeared to have ever had was once that English was my weakest subjet in school (i might be getting As in different lessons, but simplest pulled a 'B' in English most the time).

It is fine to teach baby sign, but you don't want to teach them so much it can slow their verbal skills. Once my guys were around 18 months they started saying more words, and I quit adding new signs. At their peak they knew about 30 signs, if you go over that, you are going to slow speech (any child that learns multiple languages will learn slower, as they have more to learn).

If she isn't speaking yet, sign language is a great way to start. If you are interested in teaching it to her as a second language, understand that it will slow her language development. If you just have a few things that you want her to know in sign, then that is fine. I find "help" and "all finished" to be very useful signs even once verbal, in case you can't hear them, or they get too upset to speak.

It is okay to make your child bilingual in spoken language and sign, but do know that it will slow the development of spoken language if you teach them a great deal of sign language, just like would happen if you taught them both Spanish and English at age 2.

The earlier the better but Never too old

and two is not too old at all

Go ahead

any age is a good age to start learning! Im 26 and am just learning sign language.. I probably don't need to know it so I can tell my mom when I need a new diaper but its still useful at any age

She is never too old! 2 yo is perfect for new languages.