The intention is for parents and infants to be able to communicate better
until verbal speech is possible.
Then he continued in his combination of sign language and
garbled verbal speech: «What does this mean to me?
10 Recently the Gorilla Foundation has adopted the term «simultaneous communication» (SimCom) to refer to this system, in which a communicator uses gestural signs and
verbal speech at the same time.
In
verbal speech you would say «3 mao» or «4 mao 2» instead of «30 fen» or «42 fen».