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Signing Smart
Sing, Sign & Play offers Signing Smart® classes for ages Newborn to 4 years.
Discover the wonderful world of Signing Smart® for your child!
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Beginner Sign & Play Class
Ages 6 to 18 months
The Signing Smart Beginner Play Class Series provides a playful environment where parents or caregivers and their hearing children learn ASL signs and research-proven Signing Smart Strategies while playing and interacting. Activities include gross motor play, large and small group interactions, reading, singing, and much more! The classes are great for families new to signing with their babies as well as for those who have already started. Come enjoy fun and engaging developmentally-based activities that foster intimacy and communication between babies and toddlers and their parents. More than simply teaching "routine" signs, the classes are full of both useful signs as well as ones that are most motivating to your child.
Activities are structured to facilitate both linguistic and cognitive development, building up children's conceptual understanding, memory, and vocabulary. You will learn the Signing Smart Start as well as how many and which signs to use throughout your signing journey. You will also learn Signing Smart Interaction Strategies, how to bring signs into your child's world, and how to recognize and respond to your child's early signs, making signing simple, fun, and successful. To top it off, you will learn relevant developmental information related to sign, word, cognitive, and emotional development-all while playing and interacting!
The $40 material fee includes: Treasure Chest: Toys & Signs DVD, ASL Video Glossary DVD and the Beginner Handbook.
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Intermediate Sign & Play Class
Ages 12 mos to 3 years
The Signing Smart Intermediate Play Class Series is for families who have completed at least one session of the Beginner Series and are looking to expand and extend the benefits of Signing Smart. Building off the familiar structure of the Beginner Series, we integrate signs and Signing Smart strategies into gross motor play, large and small group activities, reading, storytelling, singing, and much more; however, the activities, interactions, and signs in the Intermediate Series are more advanced and are designed to take children to the "next level" with both signing and speaking.
The Intermediate Series provides a unique opportunity for families teaching their babies sign language to engage in vocabulary-rich activities that have been developed specifically to facilitate linguistic, emotional, and cognitive development in hearing toddlers. The Play Classes extend parents' signed vocabulary, and at the same time teach parents how to use ASL signs not only as a means of early communication, but also as a powerful vehicle to facilitate long-term learning. Through engaging and developmentally-stimulating activities, you will learn how to use ASL signs and Signing Smart Strategies to: facilitate your child's comprehension of abstract ideas; stimulate your child's memory skills, foster emotional understanding and regulation, encourage symbolic play, enhance overall vocabulary and sentence use (signed and spoken), and advance your child's pre-literacy abilities through strategic sign use while reading, rhyming, and storytelling.
The $40 material fee includes: Treasure Chest 2: Signs, Songs and Rhymes 2 Disc Set DVD and the Intermediate Handbook.
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Beginner Workshop for Parents
The Beginner Signing Smart Workshop is for parents new to signing with their baby as well as for those who have already gotten started and are looking for support during the early phases. More than just motivating parents to sign, this workshop helps parents develop a plan for successfully signing with research-proven Signing Smart strategies and techniques. You will learn the Signing Smart Start - how many and which signs to use in the early stages - as well as how to build up your signs as time goes on. In addition, you will learn to create interactions in which your infant or toddler most easily learns signs, how to bring signs into your child's world, and how to recognize your child's first signs.
Through instructor presentation, interactive activities and discussion, and video examples, you will learn over 35 ASL signs, as well as tools, strategies, and resources that will enable you to experience the success of Signing Smart from the very first day. The workshop is perfect for expectant parents as well as those with children from birth through 2 years of age.
The $40 material fee includes: Treasure Chest: Toys & Signs DVD, ASL Video Glossary DVD and the Beginner Handbook.
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Advanced Workshop for Parents
The Advanced Signing Smart Workshop is relevant for families of children ages 18 months through 3 years. Whether you are already using Signing Smart techniques with your toddler or preschooler - if you are completely new to Signing Smart - come and learn how to use signs and Signing Smart strategies to enhance your child's spoken language skills and to facilitate cognitive and emotional development.
Through instructor presentation, interactive activities and discussion, and video examples, you will learn how to be Signing Smart in support of your child's concept formation, reasoning / problem solving skills, and inference-making abilities. Working from wherever your sign vocabulary is currently, we will teach you how to take advantage of Signing Smart to help your child understand nuances of spoken English, to promote early literacy, to aid in discipline, and much more!
The $40 material fee includes: Treasure Chest 2: Signs, Songs and Rhymes 2 Disc Set DVD and the Intermediate Handbook.
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About Signing Smart®
Looking to make signing with your hearing baby or toddler simple, fun, and successful from the very first day? Signing Smart makes it easy! With our research-proven strategies and techniques, there's no need to sign with your infant or toddler every time you say a word! Our materials and programs use American Sign Language (ASL) signs and teach you when and how to sign most effectively, and which signs to use within routines and play. When you teach your baby signs using Signing Smart strategies, you open the door to early communication, facilitated speech, increased intimacy, and long-term learning!
Visit the Signing Smart website for more information on Signing Smart's valuable Programs and Resources:
www.signingsmart.com
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