OK, personal soapbox here, and I have made this mistake myself. When you are teaching animals to young children and using sign language, you should differentiate between the name of the animal and the sound it makes. It's a hard habit to break, but when the child sees a cow (real, toy, image), we want them to say/sign the correct label. Not, "Mommy, look a moo!" In therapy, when you produce the ASL sign for cow, say "cow". Then you can point to your mouth or sign "sound says" and then say "moo". I even like to add fingerspelling M-O-O for a more clear differentiation and a little bonus literacy. While not an animal, the same goes for ghost. It's not a Boo!!!
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