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Social Media Superstar

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Master Signing Time Academy Instructor and  San Diego Examiner Baby Sign Language Expert Joann Woolley uses her blog, twitter and facebook to promote her business Sign4Baby and her Signing Time Academy classes. Joann presented “Success with Social Media” at the 2011 Signing Time Academy Conference and hopes to inspire other Instructors to use social media to promote their classes. Recently Joann had 4 Articles featured on the Dr. Greene website and she has given us permission to share them with you. Nourishment doesn’t only come in the form of food Water Play is the easy way! Feelings: Does my baby …

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Signing Time Works for Me!

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written by Bridget T., Okinawa, Japan My son, Kaemon, was introduced to baby sign language at 6 1/2 months old. I would teach him the few basic signs I knew here and there. When I realized he was signing “more” at a young age, I decided to continue signing with him. I took my first official baby sign language class in Chatan, Japan when he was 8 1/2 months old. I was pretty sure that a lot of the screaming my son was doing came from frustration with not being able to communicate his needs to me.  Since he didn’t …

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The Benefits of Signing with your Internationally Adopted Child

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Written by Susan Rizzo, Master Signing Time Academy Instructor Simon, or Duan Qi, as he was called then, was completely starved for communication. At least, I have to believe he was. Why else would he have been signing back to us within a day? That’s right, within a day of “Gotcha,” our new son was communicating with us through signs. I had studied first-year Mandarin before our adoption trip, preparing myself to ask important questions like Are you hungry? and What is your favorite color?, only to learn that Simon had no expressive Chinese. That’s right, at nearly three years …

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My Signing Time Story: 2 Daughters + Signing = Happy Family

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Guest blog post by Megan McWilliams, Norfolk, NE[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjBfRcCrWAU&hl=en&fs=1] As a full-time working mother of a 9 month old daughter, I desperately wished that Adalia could talk to me. Communicate anything, please. One day I read in a parenting magazine that babies could sign before they could talk. I decided that it couldn’t hurt to try, so I began teaching myself some American Sign Language vocabulary through online video dictionaries. I then taught my daughter and my husband. The frustration between Adalia and I immediately started to decrease as our ability to communicate increased. We all learned the signs for …

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Can’t Wait to Take the Next Class!

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Written by Darla D., PA   I don’t know what parents of toddlers did before signing with babies became the trend.  We signed a few basics with my first (now 4 years old), but with my second, we started taking classes with Melissa Mons in Ardmore, PA.  At first I thought, “Really, a class for a one-year old?  This will be a waste of time, for sure.”  But Melissa was great, and my little Lambchop loved everything about it.  We picked up the pack of CDs, DVDs and cards for home, and both of my little ones loved them.  We …

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Signing Time Academy Conference a success, award winners announced

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by Gwen Cox, Director of the Signing Time Academy The first annual Signing Time Academy Conference for Instructors was held in Las Vegas, Nevada over the weekend. It was an amazing event – the training sessions were fantastic and the live concert by Rachel was something we’ll never forget. We had so much fun getting to know each other that we left already feeling excited about the 2012 Conference. I hope all of us can be there! We announced the ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR at the Conference. This was probably the most difficult decision I have ever had to …

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School for the Deaf Teacher Spreads Sign Language at Breckenridge Highlands

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By Sara-Summer Oliphant (Published on ForestHills-RegentSquarePatch Master Signing Time Academy Instructor Erin McNeil-Mascaro is a teacher at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. Erin McNeil-Mascaro has known the importance of sign language as a teacher at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. But when she became a mother nearly three years ago, she learned firsthand what a useful tool sign language could be in communicating with her daughter and working to develop her daughter’s speech. “I started signing with her almost as soon as she was born,” said McNeil-Mascaro, a Baldwin Borough resident. “She started communicating with us through sign when she …

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Signing Time Academy Instructor named national Momprenuer!

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Joann Woolley, a Signing Time Academy Instructor from California, was recently named a top national Momprenuer!   “I am very excited to share that I’ve been named one of the national Momprenuer winners AGAIN! Last year as a first time entry I ranked 149 and I’d never entered any type of voting competition for my business. This year I even got a late start (1 week into voting – and with a shorter voting time line this year I was a little nervous it would be to my disadvantage) BUT we climbed over 100 spots from last year to be ranked #43 out …

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