"Mom, how did that little lady get on TV?" My daughter asks me to see a person speaking in sign language next to a popular children's series of drawings.
We saw it a few weeks ago, deaf children demand cartoons in sign language, a logical request, because when they are small they miss the series that other children can enjoy. When I read this news, I immediately remembered some cartoon with sign language in Spanish that we can see on Spanish screens on weekends.
Is about "The jungle on wheels" on Disney Channel or Disney Junior, some funny cartoons that broadcast on Saturdays and Sundays in the early hours, around 8 in the morning. So if the kids are not early risers they will miss it, even if they play several chapters (today there have been three episodes).
In Argentina, for example, they broadcast the series at 4.30pm on weekends at Disney Junior, although I don't know if it includes sign language, you'll tell us.
My three-year-old daughter, the first time she saw the lady in a corner of the television, was perplexed and began to ask me a lot of questions about it. That how he had gotten on television next to the drawings, what he was doing, why some children can't listen ...
The first few times he was more aware of the signs he was doing (he even tried to imitate her) than of what was happening in the series, but soon his figure has remained in a secondary plane, and we have taken advantage of his presence to talk about this issue that had not yet emerged between us. We have also taken the opportunity to teach you a curiosity, to spell your name in sign language.
I think it's an excellent idea that cartoons are accompanied by sign language for children with hearing impairments, so we expect this practice to be extended to many other programs (not just children or drawings) and television networks.
