A deaf grandmother teaching her deaf granddaughter to sign. How do you say "my icy heart is melting" in ASL?

Apr 25, 2017 7:07 PM

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Transcript:Start of video:
“Yes."
Both of them are laughing.
"I’m funny?" *tickles Aria’s cheek*
"Grandma. Can you sign Grandma?"
*she laughs when Aria laughs at her*
"Oh, you’re so funny!"

"Say Grandma. Can you sign Grandma?"
*lifts Aria’s hand to help her sign Grandma*
"Yes, that’s how you sign Grandma!"
*close up shot of Aria*

*Aria starts to move her arm*
"Grandma, yes!" *Aria moves her arm closer to her face*
*points to Aria’s hand* "Yes, that’s it!"
“Grandma" *moves Aria's hand again*
“Yes, that’s it! Grandma”
*Aria keeps on moving her arm and hand*
*Aria’s eyebrows goes up as if she understands what is saying*
*Aria’s arm and hand goes to her face and she seems to be signing “Grandma”*
“Yes, yes! That’s it!”
*looks up to the camera* “Did you see that?!”

*looks back to Aria* “Yes, Grandma, yes!”
*Moves Aria’s hand again to sign Grandma*
*Aria’s eyebrows furrows as her arm tightens*
“Oh, no, Im not going to force you, ok, ok”
“Aww! Oh my, you're so cute” *gently strokes Aria’s head*

Sauce: https://youtu.be/E7IlnTG7wzk

FP Edit: Woohoo! So glad you enjoyed this sweet interaction as much as I did.

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9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

Wow kids can do anything.... Now get out there and mow my lawn you lil bastard

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

:)

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

this almost made me cry sitting at my desk...that is just the most precious thing ever.

9 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 1

Absolutely beautiful.

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

A gift

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

We need to warm your icy heart with a cool island song

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Fucking cute af baby jesus fuck. I don't even like infants, but jesus god that is a cute tiny person.

9 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 1

Fuckin' a, OP. You just bitch slapped me right in the feels!

9 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 1

You're welcome.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Oddly enough, even hearing-able babies can learn sign language earlier than vocal language.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Not so odd; all babies babble with manual phonemes the same as they babble in spoken language, most just don't get any feedback and stop.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Their palate isn't developed enough for speech. Hearing different people talk sounds different, seeing different people sign looks the same.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Cutest thing I've seen all day :D

9 years ago | Likes 35 Dislikes 1

QUALITY CONTENT

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

You know you're PMS'ing when the title alone is enough to make you emotional. But then I also cried when I burned my toast this morning. :(

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

This is beautiful, thank you. All babies babble in sign language exactly as they do with spoken language, initially being able to produce<1>

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

all phonemes equally, then losing the ones that don't receive feedback (most get no manual feedback at all). Sign language can also be <2>

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

produced significantly earlier than spoken language, which is good for baby and parents.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

"That's it, just sign riiiiight here aaaand... You're all done! HAHA, I own your crib now, you stupid little shit."

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

when our kids were babies we learned them baby signs, simplified signs for short messages. It takes away a lot of frustration

9 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 2

yes i notice she's doing quite a bit of movement, hard to teach the baby when there's so much going on. one simplified movement would b easy

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Well, we teach babies speech the same way. Repeat one thing a few times, but still use proper grammar and syntax.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I'm a dude, and I think my ovaries just exploded.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

This has to be the sweetest thing i've ever seen on imgur...

9 years ago | Likes 565 Dislikes 4

This is way up there with that one of a baby getting their cochlear implants turned on and that one of a baby getting prescription glasses

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My daughter's name is Aria. One of the meanings for it is a singing solo accompanied by music. My heart hurts.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I can actually "hear" the grandma's "voice" as I read and watch her sign. Sweet video

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Infants learning language are amazing, and it's unfairly rare to see a Deaf infant receiving fluent, fully-accessible language - a core <1>

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

aspect of human interaction that most of us think no more of than we do learning to walk, which most Deaf children are denied. :(

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

my favorites are all hot chicks and touching stories

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Both of them look so cute and happy in each other's company

9 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 0

I taught my daughter only a few things, and it was a great improvement to everyday life, even if she speaks and hear alright.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It's good to teach them sign. I taught my kid milk, sleep, bath, and eat when she was about 9 m. It cut down on tantrums.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Because she could tell me what she wanted. She is 3 and says "poop" in her tiny toddler voice when she signs it and is terribly cute.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Why didn't we make sign language universal?!

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

For the same reasons we didn't make spoken language universal.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Unless you're asking why... shit, I actually have no idea what you mean by 'universal.' Everyone should learn it? Maybe you meant that.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Sorry I meant that American and Australian sign language is different. Why not have every country have the same sign language? Besides 1:

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

2: the words you need to spell out a sign for apple could be the same for someone in America and someone in Egypt etc

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

People create signed languages for themselves in each region. Great Britain has different sign language than USA but we both speak English.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

That's what I mean. The world should have got together 100 years ago and said we are all learning the same sign language.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Because there was no sign language before 100 years ago...

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Exactly! So it would have been doable to teach the same signs around the world.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

"hmm yes, I concur Grandma, Shallow and Pedantic"

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Their reaction to each other is awesome.

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

"What is love?"

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Baby don't hurt me...

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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9 years ago (deleted Nov 14, 2024 10:58 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Gonna be what? WHAAAAT?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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9 years ago (deleted Nov 14, 2024 10:58 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Yes yes the song you're gonna be... In? Listening? Writing?

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9 years ago (deleted Nov 14, 2024 10:58 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

HOW. FREAKING. PRECIOUS.

9 years ago | Likes 350 Dislikes 3

Then you realized she's named after a sound she'll never hear

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9 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

Oh don't give me that. I can't be the only one to see the irony

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Babies understand language before they can speak because of pallette development. Sign language is a great communication tool.

9 years ago | Likes 889 Dislikes 4

Baby signing is fantastically useful for expressing needs like hungry, tired, more. Plus basic manners like plz, thank you, hello.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My daughter has expressive language disorder and only recently started talking (she's almost 4) but we taught her sign language so she 1/2

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

could communicate with us and it worked.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

My son was in speech therapy for straight up not talking. He learned SL faster than I thought was possible. He's talking now, it's amazing!

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Soon the kid will be sleep-signing.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It helps the child learn language faster if you sign side by side to language. They're learning the word and the motion at the same time.

9 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

i honestly learned all my signing from "Switched At Birth"

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It is FANTASTIC for special needs kids who can't effectively communicate. Plus you look baller when you take ASL 1 lol

9 years ago | Likes 76 Dislikes 2

My aunt has huge difficulties speaking clearly with her disability. Her teachers wanted to teach her to sign but my grandmother freaked>>

9 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 0

and pulled her from the program, insisting she learn to speak instead. She speaks, but only two or three people understand her. It's so>>

9 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

damn sad. It must be so lonely. She's been 7 for over 40 years now, her mom makes all her decisions for her. Signing would have been better.

9 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 0

Is it too late for her to learn?

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Sister has downs. Learned basic signing and taught my kids

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What I find funny is that they make random sounds in ASL when learning it.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I actively signed to Tiny Terror so she could communicate with us. We still use it sometimes. I'll teach her the sign alphabet so she can

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

yell at me as a teenager, just like I did to my ma.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Yep. It's a language just like spoken ones.

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

We used some basic signs with my daughter before she could talk. Makes figuring out what they need so much easier

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My aunt and uncle taught my baby cousin sign language when he was 2 so he could tell them what he needed easier. They weren't deaf, it (1/2)

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

just made things easier for them and him. It was super impressive to see him sign to them. (2/2)

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My son has high functioning autism and for the first 4 years wouldn't speak a word; but we taught him to sign at a few months old and it 1/2

9 years ago | Likes 208 Dislikes 1

made such a difference! We finally took him to a speech pathologist he connected with and now you can't get him to shut up :) 2/2

9 years ago | Likes 198 Dislikes 0

My son was exactly the same. He didnt say his first word until he was 3

9 years ago | Likes 43 Dislikes 0

Friend of ours kid wouldn't talk so they took him to get studied and dr gave him a puzzle and he solved it right away & then asked him 1/2

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Asked him some questions he started fully talking like normal right away and dr said he had always been able too just no one was listening.

9 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

I'm very curious about that. I have a student who we believe is misdiagnosed. Even his parents think so. He has all typically developing 1/

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

'no one was listening': what's that supposed to mean ?

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I teach in an autism program for preschoolers. We use limited sign language but the kids pick it up very quickly! Even if they speak too

9 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

Which is more useful to learn, American Sign Language or Signed English?

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

They each offer distinct advantages and disadvantages. As a non deaf person, either would allow you to communicate with a Deaf person O.K.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

ASL is really common, but it really is up to what the person needs the language for.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

S.E. is English made into signs, which means that it is generally slower and less concise (some versions include signs for "is" and "or" 1/2

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Which you really don't need in a tactile language. ASL arose from a combination of natural signed languages, and is (generally) quicker.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Good point. (Also: *palate - sorry to be that guy.)

9 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 2

Not native, i always first pronounce it like KA-RA-TEEEE! and it makes me giggle

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Actually thanks! I genuinely wasn't sure how to spell it.

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

No, I'm sure the baby hasn't developed enough armor on their armpits.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

That's right. The chitinous layer starts forming around the head first, then gets to the armpits later.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Alternate title: Gansta Grandma passes down gang signs to next generation.

9 years ago | Likes 2558 Dislikes 16

@Lypto19

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I laughed out loud

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You win

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

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9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Grandma got run over by the drive by. Cuz she was wearing red last Cripsmas Eve.

9 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 0

She was in the wrong neighborhood mutha trucka!

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Ain't no party like my gma's tea party bc gma's tea party don't stop

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

GD: Granny Disciples.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Alternate alternate title: Grandma is Italian.

9 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Savage

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Gramma's a crip killa

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bruhh

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If Pyrus and crips all got along...

9 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 1

yackyackyackyack

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

they'd prolly gun me down by the end of this song

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Scream like the whole city go against me everytime Im in the streets I hear

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

*wild scHoolboy appears* YAWK YAWK YAWK YAWK

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Babies who cannot hear are found to "babble" with their hands, and doing so activated the language centers of the brain.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Source?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

1. Source on activating the language centers of the brain? Not that I'd be surprised, but you referred to activation as being known, which

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

2. would require a scan of some sort of at least something like scalp electrode-based measurement.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Check out the wikipedia article on babbling. It's a good read

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I see it also links to an article on just manual babbling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual_babbling Thanks.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Actually, all babies do it, including hearing babies. But most get no feedback and stop.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Do you have a source on this? How would one differentiate hand "babbling" from general body movement play/experimentation?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I would say that's exactly what babbling is anyway. Same with vocal babbling, just experimentation. It's the feedback that causes learning.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They babble in a specific way; 'ba-ba-ba' 'da-da-da' 'ba-da-ba-da', etc. Same when babbling with hands; repetition of/play with phonemes.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

2. I'm not saying for sure that the baby isn't doing a sign equivalent of babbling, but that video isn't very clear.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

In that particular video, the the baby isn't doing anything unambiguously repetitive. It keeps it's fist clenched, but babies often do.

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