Missed meeting
Our first meeting as a group of five was to take place on Tuesday afternoon. Sadly I had to miss it because I got called into work the night before and was not allowed to skip it. As this was the first meeting and since I came into the group late, I was worried that I might be setting a bad example of myself and I would miss something important. However the team understood as a couple of them couldn’t make it either. Those that did attend the meeting kept us updated and communicated to us through Facebook that evening.
We took a look a few apps teaching kids how to learn sign language such as Sign Me A Story, which was an app made by Valerie R. Carter who also founded the non-profit organization “GraceSigns.”. The goal was to make learning sign language fun and easy for all kids. The reason why Valerie created GraceSigns was because her daughter, who was diagnosed with down syndrome and apraxia, would come home from school unable to express herself and talk about her day due to her difficulty speaking as a young child. They learned to speak sign language to communicated with each other. I found this very interesting as Valarie’s daughter’s learning of sign language wasn’t a requirement. It was learned to make communication more comfortable for her.
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