American Sign Language:
"vitamin" or "vitamins"
To express the concept of a vitamin or vitamins, just spell "VIT"
VITAMIN:
Notes:
One day my daughter
Kelsey (around age 3 at the time) pointed to the medicine cabinet and did an interesting handshape/movement that
looked like:
As it turned out, she was combining all three letters "V-I-T" into one
handshape with a fluttering pinkie. The fact that her handshape was a
combination of the English letters (VIT) didn't matter a bit to her.
What was important to her was that her sign represented the sweet-tasting
chewable children's vitamins in the medicine cabinet. As a "Coda"
(child of Deaf adults), English was not a middleman
for her. The connection in her mind between her sign and the vitamins
was direct.
-Dr. Bill
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