• Make up sounds that are easy to
see on your lips and repeat them
often during the day.
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Ba ba
ba ba.
• Try matching a sound with an object.
Bang!
Baan!
That’s
right,
bang!
Praise your child when he makes a
sound or says a word.
• Try matching the length of
a sign to a movement...
Bounce... bounce...
bounce... bounce.
...or the length of a word
to a movement.
Rooooll.
Helping Children Who Are Deaf (2004)