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Baby Signing Myth #5: You have to learn a whole new language (BUSTED!)

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MYTH: Signing means learning a whole new language. Excerpt from SuperBaby: 12 Ways to Give Your Child a Head Start in the First 3 Years You don’t have to learn a complete language in order to begin signing with your child. You only have to know the signs that are valuable to you and your baby. Ideally you should be at least one step ahead of your child, although many adults learn the signs along with their children. You will be amazed how quickly you increase your own signing vocabulary just by looking up each of the signs as you become curious …

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The Signing Time Academy Goes Global!

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The Signing Time Academy has become a truly global organization with Instructors around the world. In the past month alone, we have added 70 new Instructors. We currently have Instructors registered in every US state as well as Abu Dhabi, Africa, Australia, Bahrain, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Russia, South Korea, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, and Vietnam! Signing Time Academy Instructors are: independent business owners who come from all walks of life committed to teaching children through American Sign Language signs free to choose their level of certification and the classes …

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Baby Signing Myth #4: ASL signs are too hard for babies (BUSTED!)

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MYTH: ASL is too complicated for babies. Excerpt from SuperBaby: 12 Ways to Give Your Child a Head Start in the First 3 Years Whenever I speak to my toddlers, Mendez and Quincy, I use real words so I can provide an accurate model, even though I know they are not yet able to reproduce the sounds I’m making. As children get more speaking experience, they refine their speech and become more capable of accurately pronouncing words. It is a bad idea to invent words to take the place of complex words your child can’t pronounce yet. If he can’t say the …

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Baby Signing Myth #2: Signing takes a lot of time and money (BUSTED!)

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Myth: Signing is expensive and time-consuming Excerpt from SuperBaby: 12 Ways to Give Your Child a Head Start in the First 3 Years  Signing does not take a lot of time or cost a bundle. The amount of time you devote to signing and the degree to which you integrate it into your family’s life is completely up to you. Granted, the more you do, the more likely you are to see results. I have seen families who use only three signs benefit from the experience. As far as the financial commitment goes, it can be as little as the cost of one paperback book. …

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Baby Signing Myth #1: Signing delays speech (BUSTED!)

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Myth: Sign language will delay spoken language Excerpt from SuperBaby: 12 Ways to Give Your Child a Head Start in the First 3 Years  Because sign encourages early communication, increases vocabulary, reduces frustration, and expands expressive language, most speech experts are in favor of introducing sign to babies. According to Dr. Marilyn Agin, Lisa Geng, and Malcolm Nicholl, authors of The Late Talker, “Research indicates that signing is a stepping stone–and a very important one–on the way to speech. As the child’s ability to vocalize increases, signing falls by the way side. The signs are not an alternative to speech, but a …

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Rachel Coleman and Signing Time featured in Investors.com article

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Sign-Language Whiz Rachel Coleman Inspires Children By LISA SCHMEISER, FOR INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 02/08/2012 01:23 PM ET Go to full article   Rachel Coleman’s Two Little Hands produces “Signing Time” TV shows on PBS and Nick Jr., plus makes DVDs, board books and flashcards. When Rachel Coleman’s daughter Leah was a baby, the singer-songwriter was writing music, performing with her band We the Living, and shrugging at the good luck of having a baby who could sleep through band rehearsals. It wasn’t the best fortune after all. By early 1998, when Leah was 14 months old, Coleman learned that …

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Frisco Public Library using Signing Time to promote early literacy

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Interview with Bonnie Barber, Youth Services Librarian, Frisco Public Library, Frisco, Texas How did Frisco Public Library start using Signing Time? Several years ago, as part of our ongoing efforts to promote early literacy and provide parents and caregivers with as many tools as possible, we began buying copies of Signing Time DVDs for check out. They were so popular that we added Signing Time music to our collection, too.   How else has Signing Time played a part in what your library offers? Signing in general has always been a vital part of our story times for babies (Babies …

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Bringing Deaf and hearing together – one piece of pizza at a time!

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For nearly a decade now, Rachel Coleman has been bridging the worlds of the Deaf and hearing with the Silly Pizza Song. Now a Deaf couple in San Francisco are using actual pizza to do the same thing! Read more about Melody and Russell Stein and their Mission District restaurant, Mozzeria in this recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle. Deaf couple launch pizza place in the Mission   Paolo Lucchesi, Chronicle Staff Writer Thursday, January 5, 2012 As at most new and noteworthy restaurants in San Francisco’s Mission District, there’s a full house during the dinner rush at Mozzeria, a month-old …

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SuperBaby! Give Your Child a Head Start in the First 3 Years

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Dr. Jenn Berman, award-winning columnist, professional therapist, and mother of twins, shares simple tips, tools and techniques for encouraging your child’s optimal development in her new book, SuperBaby: 12 Ways to Give Your Child a Head Start in the First 3 Years. We really like this book (and we like that Rachel is quoted in it, too) – so we are sharing a review of it here. Save on SuperBaby when you purchase the Baby Sign Language Starter Kit!  

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