Review Details

Signing Time Series One DVD Collection

Product Review (submitted on April 26, 2009):

Hi, thanks for making this wonderful series. It's benefitting kids the country over, I'm sure. I dont allow my kids to watch TV so I have to say we never saw this series being aired on TV. However I'm teaching my four kids (ages 1, 3, 5 and 7) from home how to speak Spanish and ASL.

I was using some random resources and supplementing with the occasional VHS/DVD from the library as far as I knew, there wasn't a series of videos that were worth buying.

I love that this series provides a more colorful, engaging approach to vocabulary and even in the later disks makes an effort at themes but the pace for each DVD is rather slow and my kids get bored, not with the language but with the SsssLOoowwww pace at which each sign is given they no longer like watching the disks. I tried putting the series away for a few weeks and then bringing out one DVD at a time according to their interests but that didn't work either. My 3 year old likes the series okay but he too gets bored that the words are so slow to come and he gets frustrated that mommy cant easily rewind to just his favorite signs during the show. So maybe a Signing Time video DVD dictionary in which you can select each sign like you do scenes for a regular movie DVD would be good for them.

I dont know why exactly but my 1 year old hates the videos. I thought he'd like them but Sully doesn't like them at all. MY 7 and 5 year are more interested in ASL as a language and so they put in a real effort but I'm sorry to say that they knew most of the vocab this first series had to offer already. I feel like I totally wasted 200+ bucks. I wont be bothering with series 2 or Baby Signing Time, which I feel will be an equal waste of time.