Down Syndrome Awareness Month
Signing Turns Your Child’s Brain On
All of our children have normal hearing and don’t have any behavior or physical conditions. But we wanted to communicate early with our babies, and give them the tools to communicate with us. And it worked! When our first daughter was about 6 months old, we…
Lovers Gonna Love – Why People Choose Signing Time
Rachel shared the following on Facebook on August 15th: Feeling especially grateful for our Signing Time families and friends. We are able to do what we love, because there are so many people who love us! (That’s where I choose to focus.) Families who love…
American Sign Language – Celebrating 200 Years
According to The National Center for Health Statistics there are approximately 50 million Americans that have some degree of hearing loss. About 2 million are classified as deaf. Approximately 10% of those classified as deaf were born deaf, the other 90% lost their hearing later in life. American Sign Language is the…
Signing Time Academy Instructors are Teaching Girls Scouts How to Sign
After seeing the following video and post last week we reached out to theGirl Scouts of the USA to ask permission to share it with you. We wanted to share what some of the Signing Time Academy Instructors are doing to teach Girls Scouts how to…
Priceless Rewards: Beating the Odds with Signing Time
“What could have been a stumbling block became one more chance for Erin to Shine.” Baby Signing Time Kickstarter Backer Diane C. shares her story about the powerful life-long rewards of signing with her daughter, Erin. “I just have to share how Signing Time continues to…
Signing Time and Our Journey As a Special Needs Family
by Lisa T. American Sign Language has been an invaluable blessing to my family. Our three-year-old daughter, June, has complex medical needs including a tracheostomy which prevents her from vocalizing. American Sign Language allows June to communicate with us and to acquire a rich, complete…
Supporting Down Syndrome Awareness Month
The Signing Time Foundation is proud to be a long-standing supporter of children with Down syndrome and their families. Signing Time Co-founder Rachel Coleman can often be found at the National Down Syndrome Society Buddy Walks around the country. We’ve been working hard to build a great database of…
Combining an Interest in ASL with a Love for Children to Make a Difference for Families in Texas
We are pleased to have a network of Instructors around the world offering Signing Time classes, workshops, and story times. Cheryl-Annette Parker is a mom of two wonderful children – a daughter of 4 years and a son of 19 months, and she is a…
What if your whole school used sign language?
What would it look like if all the students in your school used signs to enhance learning? What would a typical day in class look like? What would the teachers think? How would parents react? How would it affect bilingual students? How would it affect…
