NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: It's not often that a bunch of adults are inspired by a 2-year-old, but we're not talking about any ordinary toddler here. Her story, from reporter Colin Baker of Britain's Independent Television News.</s>COLIN BAKER, ITN REPORTER: You wouldn't expect little Diana Graham to read and write. Her vocabulary is tiny, yet this toddler's communication skills are quite extraordinary. Her mother, Susan, has been deaf since birth. Diana now, at the age of two, is using sign language, especially useful when a favorite toy is broken.</s>DIANA GRAHAM, TODDLER: ... to fix it.</s>BAKER: So impressive is she that now staff the local supermarket in Stanley County, Durham, have undertaken lessons in signing from both mother and daughter.</s>GRAHAM: Mommy.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Mommy?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Mommy, correct?</s>GRAHAM: Nana.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Nana.</s>GRAHAM: Yes!</s>BAKER (on camera): Her signing is quite remarkable.</s>BETTY GRAHAM, DIANA'S GRANDMOTHER: Oh, yes, brilliant. She does everything to her mother. She knows how to tell her if she wants milk, water, bread, cheese. She knows -- if the phone's ringing, she tells her mommy, if the door's knocked, she tells her mommy there's somebody's at the door.</s>BAKER: It's a lifeline for Susan, isn't it?</s>B. GRAHAM: Oh, yes. Very much so.</s>BAKER: Susan has never heard her daughter laugh or cry. But Diana's natural eloquence in an unspoken language makes for supreme and delightful bonding. Colin Baker, ITN, Stanley County, Durham.
Toddler Inspires Adults to Learn Sign Language