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“Combining American Sign Language (ASL) with Songs for Babies & Toddlers, Preschoolers & Elementary Children has many benefits!”
- American Sign Language (ASL) is
for ALL CHILDREN, including babies, toddlers, preschoolers and elementary children, their parents, teachers, caregivers and families.
- Signing Songs is a fun, playful way for parents, teachers, and caregivers to interact with all children.
- Signing and signing with songs provides a wonderful parent / child bonding activity.
- Early Communication & Language Skills - Signing provides parents, teachers and caregivers a proven way to give babies, infants and toddlers usable language skills that allow early communication to begin many months before they can speak.
- Signing Reduces Communication frustrations - Signing with babies and toddlers helps to reduce parent child communicaiton frustrations. It helps to reliece the crying and screaming guessing game. Gives babies and toddlers an ealy communications skill that enables them to express their wants and needs.
- Signing has bee proven to increase
IQ scores and stimulates
brain development.
- Increases vocabulary and language
skills, often providing
signing children with up to twice the usable vocabulary of non-signing
children when the enter school. This gives children a real “Jump Start
on Smart.”
- Signing is a great way for children to build
fine and gross motor skills. It improves hand-eye coordination.
- Signing enhances confidence and self-esteem.
- Signing encourages an enthusiasm for learning.
- Improves memory and enhances
recall.
- Signing is a fun and playful activity that children enjoy doing.
- It is
a wonderful means of scaffolding or a way to build skills that will raise
a child to the next level of learning. For infants it is a way to communicate
using words prior to verbal skills being established. For toddlers it is
a way to expand their usable vocabulary by getting more information and
expanded language skills. For preschoolers and early elementary children
it provides a way to manipulate letters and sounds, to spell before many
of them are able to write thus providing a head start in letter and sound
manipulation.
- We Sign uses American Sign Language
(ASL) 4 th most common
in the U.S.
- We Sign introduces children to wonderful new and traditional
folk songs.
- We Sign by combining spoken word, sign and music, provides
a way to for children to learn using a wide variety
of their multiple intelligences. Visual, physical, oral, verbal, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal.
- We Sign is a way for hearing children to build sign vocabulary and open
a door so that hearing and deaf children have something they can do together.
- We
Sign provides a way for preschoolers and elementary school age children
to learn the basic educational concepts of colors, numbers, ABC’s,
Rhymes and more.
- Signing with songs and in communication allows children
to learn lots of vocabulary to a second language.
- We sign is America's #1 interactive DVD and Video series featuring ASL for the hearing that covers ages from infancy through adult. Winner of over 50 national awards.
- We Sign is not teaching ASL as a language, We are teaching ASL
vocabulary as a way to support learning for hearing children.
- We are teaching
ASL vocabulary signed in a spoken English word order. We are teaching PSE – Pigeon
Signed English.
Did you know?
That we remember:
10% of what we read;
20% of what we hear;
30% of what we see;
50% of what we hear and see at the same time;
70% of what we hear, see and say; and
90% of what we hear, see, say and do.
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