Ages 6 months to 3 years
Ages 6 months to 3 years
AN INTRODUCTORY SIGN LANGUAGE CURRICULUM
FOR PARENTS WITH HEARING CHILDREN
A different approach from other sign language programs.
Through songs, toys, and loving playtime between you and your child, Kindermusik
Sign & Sing shows you more than 50 signs your child can use to communicate with
you. Using research-proven methods shown to speed language development in
hearing children, you'll see how sign language can ease frustration and enhance
long-term learning abilities for your child.
Songs and fingerplays. Already accustomed to fingerplays and rhyme-songs
such as "This Little Piggy” you'll easily substitute signs (ASL) in familiar
songs, improving your child's language skills, fine motor skills, and strengthen
fingers for zipping zippers and using scissors.
Learn when you play. You'll never have to memorize a list of signs. This
curriculum gives you the ASL signs that are most useful to you, and most
interesting to your child. So playtime and everyday items around the house ball,
bubbles, mom and dad become the objects of learning in the classroom, and sign
language becomes a natural, happy part of your child's day.
Hearing children who know signs, learn language almost twice as fast. As
early as 11-14 months old, hearing children exposed to sign language put little
sentences together faster than non-signing children, who do not begin to combine
words into short sentences, such as "Da-da car" until the average age of 20
months. Study conducted by Dr. Michelle Anthony and Dr. Reyna Lindert, Signing
Smart program founders.
Benefits for Your Child and You