American Sign Language can improve IQ, cognition, communication skills, frustration, vocabulary, confidence, reading level, learning abilities, and understanding in babies and children. Signing is also beneficial for those with conditions like apraxia, autism, cerebral palsy, and Down syndrome. Signing allows for communication with those we previously thought we couldn't understand. Approximately 1.2 million Americans use American Sign Language, representing 0.49% of the total US population.

1. American Sign Language
Adrienne Slocum

2. Baby Sign Improves:
 IQ
 Cognition
 Frustration
 Vocabulary
 Confidence
 Reading level
 Learning skills
 Understanding
 Communication

3. • Apraxia
• Autism
• Cerebral Palsy
• Down Syndrome

4. Communication with those
we thought we couldn’t
understand

5. 1200000
.49%
1000000
800000
Deaf
600000 .23%
Disabled
Hear of Hearing
.18%
400000
200000
0
Population Total US Population: 294,043,000

7. Population Chart:
URL: http://libguides.gallaudet.edu/deaf_statistics
Why we Love ASL (video)
http://www.schooltube.com/video/fa41b8418360
4bbdb733/Why-we-love-ASL
Signing Autistic Lives
http://www.signingautisticlives.com/
http://www.supportasl.com/order.html