Feel like I should give some background real quick I'll try not to make it long. So my girlfriend and I have a 6 year old daughter, though biologically she's not mine and I only met her around 5 years ago. Since then I've come to see her as my own.
I am also fully deaf, no cochlea implant or hearing aids. I only sign. My girlfriend also signs because her mother is deaf, she also had been signing around our daughter since she was born. I work from home so I can watch our daughter because she's autistic and non speaking, my girlfriend prefers to go out for work so we decided this was the plan. Anyway so I was taking a break from working and was playing with my daughter since it's the weekend and there's no school. Now I can't hear her talk obviously, but she can sign but she's never signed full sentences. Sign language does have a whole different gramma to english or any language so theres always a few words left out (like is it's) but she does often sign things like toy or play. Anyway today she had said to me, "daddy want food". I wish I recorded it. I know she understands sign language, but her signing a full thing and also telling me exactly what she wants without using hand leading or getting upset was a very big improvement. She goes to speech therapy and ot and we try getting her to use aac device. I needed to yap about this and I don't know this means so fucking much. My girlfriend is also so happy.
Feel like I should give some background real quick I'll try not to make it long.
So my girlfriend and I have a 6 year old daughter, though biologically she's not mine and I only met her around 5 years ago. Since then I've come to see her as my own.
I am also fully deaf, no cochlea implant or hearing aids. I only sign. My girlfriend also signs because her mother is deaf, she also had been signing around our daughter since she was born. I work from home so I can watch our daughter because she's autistic and non speaking, my girlfriend prefers to go out for work so we decided this was the plan. Anyway so I was taking a break from working and was playing with my daughter since it's the weekend and there's no school. Now I can't hear her talk obviously, but she can sign but she's never signed full sentences. Sign language does have a whole different gramma to english or any language so theres always a few words left out (like is it's) but she does often sign things like toy or play. Anyway today she had said to me, "daddy want food". I wish I recorded it. I know she understands sign language, but her signing a full thing and also telling me exactly what she wants without using hand leading or getting upset was a very big improvement. She goes to speech therapy and ot and we try getting her to use aac device. I needed to yap about this and I don't know this means so fucking much. My girlfriend is also so happy.