Monday July 29, 2024 | Sign Language

Can people with selective mutism use sign language? Children with SM can certainly be taught non-verbal communication tools, including sign language or using PECs (picture exchange cards). This can be helpful in increasing overall communication for a child who does not communicate at all in necessary settings.

I find this sucky because of this... I wonder why my parents didn't think of sign language until I felt more comfortable to speak in front of people? Because my parents had a better salution... They believed that people who are hearing could not learn sign language. Me? I found it more interesting. Here I was..... in 1979 and 5 and in kindergarten scared to death because kids in class were calling me weird including that little once red headed kid name Paul Beaumont. Which by the way, I had a crush on him. Uh-huh. :)

I could have been talking in sign language until I was able to speak. UGH!!!!! So stupid!!! My parents had a better solution. They thought that hearing people couldn't learn sign language because they can hear. Just like hearing people can't turn on the captions on the TV. Well it just so happens that those captions help me by reading what they say on the TV. That would be a big help if there were captions above peoples heads and I could read what people are trying to tell me. But it's also a big help when people talk with their hands like my Aunt Lisa talks with her hands. That is a big help. Did you know that people with auditory processing could get hearing aids even though it's their brain (well their amygdala) can't hear. A person with auditory processing is like a hard of hearing person except that a person with auditory processing is that their brain can't hear and it's hard for them to understand what people are talking about most of the time. Sometimes they don't hear at all until someone else relays it back to me a couple of minutes later. It irritates the crap out of people when I ask what people said in detail.

My aunt Lisa who is deaf in both ears and my uncle Max is deaf in only ear. Which is what I had said above in highlighted yellow. This is what I think where I got auditory processing. I have been wondering that basically since I was diagnosed with auditory processing disorder. There are reasons why we get disabilities. My one thought is that god thought that we could handle it and make the effort to try and spread awareness of it. Me? I can't even speak to do that and people think that I am full of it most of the time.