We sometimes hear people say that sound is only a small percentage of communication. The rest has to do with gestures, facial expressions, and just an understanding of what is taking place.
For those in the deaf community, sound is even a smaller percentage of communication and may not even play a part in it at all. That doesn’t mean that they aren’t able to communicate, as they do so in ASL in a beautiful way.
When you have a family member that communicates with ASL, you want to understand how to do it as well. It seems as if this is something that starts at a very young age, and one proud mother is more than willing to share how she knows that is true.
Mara McCullough was watching her young daughter, Jane, who decided she wanted to communicate with her grandparents. They are deaf, however, so the little girl was babbling in ASL.
We’ve all seen children babbling before, and it seems as if they just want to get in on the action. Little Jane, however, was doing even more and even though she didn’t know what she was saying, you could tell that she wanted to share a special moment with them.
As grandparents, we sometimes have a moment in time that we will never want to forget. I’m sure that having your little granddaughter wanting to talk to you in your language is something that these grandparents will remember for the rest of their lives.