Who Saw Sesame Street Today???

[kilikicurran]

With all the talk of writing to PBS about ST, I had thought that if they can have the Spanish word of the day, they need to have the Sign of the day! I was about to e-mail Sesame Street about this.

Well, as I was sitting at the computer this afternoon, my son was watching Sesame Street in the other room & what did I hear??? Big Bird said, "Here is the Sign of the day". I ran into the other room!! They signed jump. I was so excited. The date of the show was 2005. I know a lot of the shows we've been getting lately are older.

Does anyone know if this is something new they have started??

[Jamie]

As long as I can remember they've signed on the show. My son watched an episode a few months ago and there was a segment with a deaf girl and Bob and some hearing kids and the games that they could all play together. They actually went over several signs. One of the first signing books I got was a Sesame Street ABC one.

[signsofearlylife]

I've seen many episodes with signing as well. Also, my 'Parenting Magazine' comes with a free subscription to 'Sesame Street Magazine' and they have at least the letter of the month signed in there every month and sometimes more.

[heather_212]

Does anyone know if this is something new they have started??

I don't know if it's something new they started, but there was an episode that had lots of signing in it. Bob's niece was on the show and she's deaf (not sure if she's really his niece, but that's the role she played on t.v.) It was a nice segment that showed how deaf kids can play with hearing kids. We saved the episode but I've seen it repeated a time or two since. There have been other episodes where they show a little signing, like a sign of the day clip, but this one had a lot of signing in it. We even picked up some signs we didn't know from ST!

[AK Deb]

I have to agree that Sesame Street has always been "signing friendly". Back in the good ole days when I watched Sesame as a kid (yes, I did see the very first show on it's first showing), we knew Linda, a Deaf woman on the Street (played by Linda Bove, a deaf actress who was a founding member of the National Theater of the Deaf and co-founder of DeafWest, a deaf/HOH theater company in LA) . She was involved in lots of aspects of life on SS. Bob did quite a bit of signing with her in my foggy memory. I do know that she was at Maria and Luis' wedding in the late 80's (with Bob interpretting for her), so she's been around for a while.

Now that I have the excuse to watch Sesame with our girls, I've noticed a few "sign of the day" type segments. I think I've seen two or three...repeated over and over...in the last year and a half or so. I sure hope they are adding new segments. I did see a segment with beautiful black and white photograhy and a young boy signing to a poem (or was it a song). It was gorgeous! And I'd love to know the program number of the show with lots of signing in it.

Let's hear it for Sesame Street! They've been paving the way in many areas for decades!

Debbie

[strykersmommy]

LOL! I have a TiVo wishlist for sign language-so that means that it auto records anythign that has sign language is the description-and I think all I've even gotten is that Sesame street. "Bob's deaf neice". It's become somewhat of a joke here. You can only watch something so many times. :) (well, except ST. :D )

[kilikicurran]

Well guys, I guess I haven't watched enough of the show with DS. That's the first segment I've seen. Oh, I did see the show with Bob's niece (I too have a TiVo wishlist!!). I vaguely remember Linda. I wasn't really interested in sign back then. (yes, I saw the originals too!) :D She was on a little while back. That was nice to see.

I hope they keep up the segments!!!

[Jenn]

Back in the good ole days when I watched Sesame as a kid (yes, I did see the very first show on it's first showing), we knew Linda, a Deaf woman on the Street (played by Linda Bove, a deaf actress who was a founding member of the National Theater of the Deaf and co-founder of DeafWest, a deaf/HOH theater company in LA) . She was involved in lots of aspects of life on SS. Bob did quite a bit of signing with her in my foggy memory. I do know that she was at Maria and Luis' wedding in the late 80's (with Bob interpretting for her), so she's been around for a while.


Does it make me old if I remember this as well? :o

[jenml]

I don't know if it's something new they started, but there was an episode that had lots of signing in it. Bob's niece was on the show and she's deaf (not sure if she's really his niece, but that's the role she played on t.v.) It was a nice segment that showed how deaf kids can play with hearing kids.

Sesame Street was auditioning for that role last spring. I get Deaf culture info from an agency in NYC and there was a casting call for Deaf girls ages 3-8. SS is filmed in Astoria (Queens)... closeby to us.

I have actually met Linda (twice) and Bob a couple of times, too. Linda has gone to Deaf theatre shows in the city (productions by NTID, NTD, Hands On), so I bumped into her there a couple times. She's very nice!

I was thrilled to meet Bob through a college roommate who grew up with him living next door to her in Teaneck NJ. My friend always said she knew him well, and I was dying to meet him (die hard SS fan since I was little.. and I love Bob). She got me a signing picture (which I have framed). So at her wedding (five years ago), I'm sitting in the church with my husband, and who comes walking down the aisle!?? I totally forgot that he might have been invoted to this friend's wedding... i just didn't make the connection until I saw him in the church. So, of course I had to talk with him at the reception... he was VERY nice (and very old looking in person, which sort of surprised me, and that was five years ago). He even signed with my husband (not fluently, but pretty much as you see him sign on tv... stiff, but good). His reception skills were good, too. I talked SS curriculum with him (I'm a sped teacher, so that was fun). :) Very nice guy. His wife is nice, too, by the way.

[Jamie]

How exciting! I've always held a special fondness for Sesame Street. Such great memories.

[kilikicurran]

How exciting! I've always held a special fondness for Sesame Street. Such great memories.


Me too. I grew up watching SS & Mr. Rogers everyday. Now all I want my son to watch is SS & ST!!!