Baby Sign Language: Does Baby Sign Language Delay Speech? Here’s What the Research Actually Says
Kavya’s father-in-law said it at the dinner table, in the gentle-but-certain tone reserved for advice nobody asked for: “Beta, stop doing that hand signal thing with Aarav. Usko bolna seekhna hai, sign language nahi. You’re teaching him to be lazy — why would he bother talking if waving his hand gets him what he wants?” …