Scotland's newspaper Daily Record and Dumb

Daily Record

SIGNS OF THE TIMES
By Hilary Barclay

IMAGINE if your baby could tell you when they needed their nappy changed, when they were hungry or thirsty, or even if they wanted second helpings.

Well it is now claimed that they can - and from as early as three months old.
A simplified version of the British Sign Language designed for the deaf and dumb is being taught to some hearing infants.

Using sign language to communicate with babies and toddlers has been the subject of 20 years' research in America and is now part of the school curriculum over there.

Now we have our own Scottish "baby whisperer" in the form of Yvonne Mitchell, who is teaching this second language in nurseries and pre-school groups in Glasgow, Paisley and East Kilbride.
The 37-year-old said: "Parents are probably signing to their children already without realising it. For example, when they wave goodbye in an exaggerated fashion and say 'ta-ta'.

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I am sure anti-BSL supporters are secretly sniggering (maybe just nerve thing)... ghosts of pro-Milan 1880 too.

As a British VSO volunteer, I facilitated Deaf awareness across Guyana, South America. Still Scotland who is part of Britain still call us deaf and dumb... Ah, Nationalist issue... obviously!

Should I ask a Deaf Guyanese VSO volunteer to come here for helping Deaf awareness in Britain? UNICEF would agree...

Shame on you, Daily Record and dumb!