Year: 2011

January Hand-y Craft: Penguins!

Make these adorable penguins with your child! Download this Hand-y Craft now. Additional Resources: Download dozens more Signing Time Hand-y Crafts – all free! Get new Hand-y Crafts delivered to you each month! Subscribe to our newsletter. Get the Signing Time Preschool and Child Care Program.  

Firefighter uses sign language on the job – thanks to Signing Time!

When Sara Nelson Cosmi made this post on our Facebook page, she grabbed our attention! I just wanted to share a quick story. My husband is a firefighter/EMT and went on a call last night to a house with hearing impaired patients. He was able to communicate with them, asking them “where does it hurt” and spelling out simple words all from watching Baby Signing Time with our daughter. It’s really neat to know that not only is Signing Time teaching our children but we gain from it as well. It encourages us to keep learning ASL and hopefully our …

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Making a Difference: Helping Deaf Children in Ghana

Ronai Brumett has been invited to go with the Signing Time Foundation to Ghana in January of 2012,  in partnership with Signs of Hope International to help provide tuition and supplies for students who cannot afford to attend a School for the Deaf. My name is Ronai Brumett. I am a Signing Time Academy Master instructor in Maple Grove, MN. I am also a sign language interpreter, I’ve been married to my sweetheart for 17 years, and together we have 4 amazing kids. My daughter Elizabeth (Ellie, pictured here with me) is 14 and fluent in American Sign Language. She …

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Making a Difference: Helping Deaf Students in Ghana

Carissa Martos has been invited to go with the Signing Time Foundation to Ghana in January of 2012,  in partnership with Signs of Hope International to help provide tuition and supplies for students who cannot afford to attend a School for the Deaf. “When the Ghana trip with the Signing Time Foundation presented itself, I leaped at the chance. I solicited donations from my interpreting classmates, from families I’d worked with, and from my friends and family. I set up a page on my website, explaining the purpose trip and the mission of Signs of Hope. I went to a …

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The Kids Speak Out!

Before the last trip to Ghana, Leah did an interview where she explained that when she grew up, she wanted to be a writer as well as a teacher of the Deaf in Africa.  She explained why she was going, and what she hoped she could change for those children.  The interview is as relevant to the upcoming trip in 2012 as it was back then: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG9LX3G63lQ&version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0] Rory, the daughter of Carissa Martos, the Foundation’s Academy Outreach Coordinator, also wanted to explain why her parents were heading to Africa, and what they hoped to accomplish there.  Rory’s too young …

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Sign of the Week – Want

It’s Tuesday… here’s your sign of the week! This Week’s Featured Sign: Want Watch the Video (Click the Image Below to Play) Free QuickTime Player required [powerpress url=”http://c1900242.r42.cf0.rackcdn.com/want.m4v” image=”http://c0445781.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/signoftheweek/signoftheweeklogo.jpg”] Download the Flashcard (click on the image. Print in color or black-and-white and adjust the print size according to your needs.) Signing Time Volume 1 – My First Signs he very first DVD in the Signing Time Series! From their magical animated treehouse, Alex (age 3), his cousin Leah (age 4) who is deaf, and host Rachel Coleman (Leah’s mom) teach beginning American Sign Language (ASL) signs with your child in …

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Signing Time Academy Instructors Get Recognized

As the Signing Time Academy continues to grow, we are excited to see more Instructors receive recognition for their efforts to enrich the lives of children and families. Take some time to review what they have accomplished.   Joyce Edmiston, Master Signing Time Instructor, was interviewed by Leslie Amoros for the Central Penn Parent Magazine.   Monica Blouin, Advanced Signing Time Instructor, and her family were featured in the Family Times Special Needs Guide. Her daughter Madeleine is on the cover.     Athena Schepmoes, Master Signing Time Instructor and our newest Associate Director for the northwest region was featured …

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Sign of the Week – Cold

It’s Tuesday… here’s your sign of the week! This Week’s Featured Sign: Cold Watch the Video (Click the Image Below to Play) Free QuickTime Player required [powerpress url=”http://c1900242.r42.cf0.rackcdn.com/cold.m4v” image=”http://c0445781.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/signoftheweek/signoftheweeklogo.jpg”] Download the Flashcard (click on the image. The file contains a few color and black-and-white options. Print according to your needs.) This week’s sign comes from:   Baby Signing Time Volume 4 – Let’s Be Friends Created specifically for babies as young as 3 months old up to 3 years, yet fun for the whole family! Features host Rachel Coleman, along with animated Baby Alex, Baby Leah, and Baby Hopkins. Baby …

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How is Series Two different from Series One?

Even long-time fans don’t know that we’ve got an entire second series of Signing Time DVDs – it’s really our best-kept secret. But we want to change that – starting with our buy 3, get 1 free sale December 7-10. Series Two videos are often overlooked, but they are some of the BEST of our entire product line. They are full of more original music and fun that you’ve come to expect from Series One, but they differ in a few key ways: Key Difference 1: One episode-specific theme song In Series Two, each episode is built around a single …

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New White Paper Sums Up Three Decades of Signing Research

A note from Rachel Coleman and Emilie de Azevedo Brown, co-creators of Signing Time and Two Little Hands Productions, the company that commissioned this white paper. “Until now, if you wanted to get an objective summary of the academic research on signing with babies and children that has been conducted over the past three decades, you would have had to pull together findings from a wide array of disparate and sometimes obscure sources. Now, thanks to Dr. Claire Vallotton, a trusted authority and leading researcher on this topic, you now have access to a comprehensive reference list of 68 studies …

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