KM With Debbie - Sign & Sing Class

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Madison, WI

For Parent/Caregiver with their Newborn to 3 year-old child

Sign language class 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 80 signs your child can use to communicate with you. Using research-proven methods shown to speed language development, you'll see how sign language can ease frustration and enhance long-term learning abilities for your child.

Benefits for Your Child and You

Communicate with your child even before she can form the words.
Ease a child's frustration by helping her communicate what she needs, speed language development, and enhance long-term learning abilities.
Know when your child is most ready to interact and learn.
Learn sign language teaching methods, such as making the sign on a child's body, on the floor, or hand over hand.
Recognize and respond to your child's version of signs.

Songs and fingerplays.

Using fingerplays and rhyme-songs-such as "This Little Piggy", you'll easily substitute American Sign Language (ASL) signs which will improve 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.

Class Information:

45 minutes once a week (for caregiver and child)

12 week semesters

Home Materials includes:
   - 2 "Week by week" family activity guides
   - Glossary DVD showing 60 signs
   - "Treasure Chest" DVD, a colorful and engaging DVD featuring children
singing and signing familiar songs and nursery rhymes
   - 2 sets of clip-on flashcards with photos of both children and adults using
family-friendly American Sign Language (ASL) signs. One set: "most useful
signs". Second set: Animal Signs.

Fall 2008 Sign&Sing Registration Form

For more info about KM With Debbie call 274-6635 or e-mail