Year: 2011

Sign of the Week – Tree

It’s Tuesday… here’s your sign of the week! This Week’s Featured Sign: Tree Watch the Video (Click the Image Below to Play) Free QuickTime Player required [powerpress url=”http://c1900242.r42.cf0.rackcdn.com/09-06-2011Tree640.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.) This week’s sign comes from: Baby Signing Time Volume 3 – A New Day 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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Two little girls make an instant connection – with signs!

This guest blog post is by Jennifer Richards Sanchez and is part of our Making a Difference series. After the birth of my daughter, Ava-now 20 months old, I was talking with a woman at my work (Becky Sawruck) whose son, Aidan, is hearing impaired. She said that the Signing Time series had made a huge impact on their life and enabled early communication with their son. I think Aiden knew close to two hundred signs by the time he was just two years old. Becky loaned me the Baby Signing Time DVDs to start with and we began watching them when Ava was …

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Sign of the Week – Wet

Here’s your sign of the week! This Week’s Featured Sign: Wet Watch the Video (Click the Image Below to Play) Free QuickTime Player required [powerpress url=”http://c1900242.r42.cf0.rackcdn.com/wet.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 3 – Everyday Signs Alex, Leah, and host Rachel Coleman teach ASL signs for the things you see, do and experience every day. Created for ages 1-8 but enjoyed by all! Available only on DVD. Close-Captioned. Approximate run time: 30 minutes, plus special features. Everyday Signs includes the …

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ASL leads to talking miracle for child with Down syndrome

Excerpt from “Television show leads to talking miracle” by Susan Jones of the St. Albert Gazette featuring Signing Time Academy Instructor Shelley Wywal. When Elora was born, her parents were told their new infant could have a severe language disability. The baby was kept in the hospital for a week because of the Down syndrome and Wywal remembers visiting with countless specialists, who bombarded her with information. “There were speech specialists and this specialist and that specialist, and they all said she would have a severe language delay,” Wywal said. The first day she brought seven-day-old Elora home, the exhausted …

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Sign of the Week – Full

Here’s your sign of the week! This Week’s Featured Sign: Full Watch the Video (Click the Image Below to Play) Free QuickTime Player required [powerpress url=”http://c1900242.r42.cf0.rackcdn.com/07_26_2011Full.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 3 – Everyday Signs Alex, Leah, and host Rachel Coleman teach ASL signs for the things you see, do and experience every day. Created for ages 1-8 but enjoyed by all! Available only on DVD. Close-Captioned. Approximate run time: 30 minutes, plus special features. Everyday …

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Rachel Live in Edmonton, Canada!

Master Signing Time Academy Instructor, has teamed up with the Signing Time Foundation to present Emmy Nominated Rachel Coleman live in Emonton! When: September 18, 2011 2:30 pm (Seating begins at 1:00 pm) Where: Royal Alberta Museum 12845 102 Avenue Northwest Edmonton, AB T5N 0M6, Canada Website: www.signingtimefoundation.org/edmonton Tickets: Children $10/VIP $20 Adult (13+) $15/VIP $30 BUY NOW Regular Tickets available in advance or at the door. VIP tickets must be purchased in advance. Additional Information: General Admission Seating ticket sales start at 2:00 pm. VIP tickets are limited and on a first come, first serve basis. VIP tickets provide …

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Sign of the Week – Bike

It’s Tuesday… here’s your sign of the week! This Week’s Featured Sign: Bike Watch the Video (Click the Image Below to Play) Free QuickTime Player required [powerpress url=”http://c1900242.r42.cf0.rackcdn.com/08-30-2011Bike640.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 2 – Here I Go 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 to use sign language to spark your baby’s love of books

By Lane Rebelo, LCSW, Certified Master Signing Time Instructor Reading with your baby every day is not only good for her budding language and communication skills, it can also be a wonderful time to play and learn too! Using American Sign Language can help take baby’s reading time to a whole new level as you stimulate her senses while engaging more areas of her growing brain. Picking Books to Read With Baby Babies love colorful board books with chunky pages that are sturdy and easy to turn. Touch-and-feel books offer stimulating textures for little fingers to explore, and lift-the-flap features …

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Homework Help: Use fingerspelling to improve your child’s spelling

According to Rae Pica of BAM Radio, “Children learn best through active involvement.” Some common strategies that actively involve children as they learn new spelling words include: tracing letters in the air tracing letters on sandpaper or in a sand tray tracing letters in shaving cream on a desk Another way to add meaningful movement to spelling is to use fingerspelling (manual alphabet). Here’s how: Learn the manual alphabet with your child at the beginning of the school year. Practice new spelling words by fingerspelling each letter as you say its name aloud. If there are patterns in the words …

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September Hand-y Craft: Shrinky Dink Jewelry!

Create these adorable Shrinky Dink necklaces and bracelets that feature Hopkins the Frog from your favorite Signing Time books and videos. 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. Download How-To Guides for signing with children of all ages and abilities.

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