ABCMeSign - Sign Language Classes for hearing infants and young children

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ABC me Sign™offers the following participatory adult workshops for parents, caregivers, educators, and childcare providers who want to communicate effectively through the use of ASL:

ABC me Sign™ Intro Workshop is a two-hour fun and interactive workshop designed for parents and caregivers of infants and toddlers. Come and learn how to enrich your child's speech and language, boost vocabulary, increase self-confidence and stimulate intelligence through the use of American Sign Language (ASL).

Participants learn the optimal times and methods for signing with their child and how to incorporate signing into daily routines. Signs are taught that can help reduce stress and empower your child through this early mode of communication. Participants leave comfortable in their ability to sign and with a number of resources to help them continue to sign.

ABC me Sign™ Childcare Providers and Educators Workshop is a two-hour interactive course that introduces the concept of signing as an excellent way to augment existing curriculum. Come and learn the joys and benefits of American Sign Language through the use of age-appropriate songs and games! Educators learn about the compelling research in this area, resources to keep them signing in their classes and how to involve parents and are provided with vocabulary specific to classroom use.

In-home/On-site Training
ABC me Sign™ workshops can come to you! If you have a group and would like to meet at your location, then you can host an in-home or on-site workshop. This is a wonderful option for moms' clubs, playgroups, and childcare centers. To arrange an in-home or on-site workshop in Orange County please contact us.

ABC me Sign™offers the following parent-child classes:

ABC me Sign™ Growing Together classes are developed for parents and babies to grow together through music, movement, song, play and signing. Babies naturally start learning from the minute they are born and this class will provide parents valuable and fun ways to support and encourage brain development and emergent literacy skills. These classes offers babies 2 months - 12 months and their parents a special time to grow together. Join us to discover the impact you can have on your baby's cognitive and language development through signing, singing, movement and creative play. Each class is based on a weekly theme.

ABC me Sign™ Parent and Me Sign Language Classes offer a variety of fun, interactive, educational classes to assist families in signing. These classes are offered in 8 to 10-week sessions for 45 minutes each week. In a playful, language-rich environment, parents, caregivers and children will build their American Sign Language (ASL) vocabulary through songs, games and storytelling.

It is our belief that by offering an environment rich in auditory, kinesthetic and visual experiences we can stimulate intellectual development while having fun and building ASL vocabularies.

• Tinyfingers is a circle time for parents and their babies 7 to 15 months. Learn to communicate with your preverbal baby using simple ASL signs. We will discuss the benefits of using ASL with infants, teach recommended first signs, and demonstrate techniques for successfully and easily integrating signs into everyday life. Some of the ASL vocabulary covered for this age group includes: beginning words, snack and meal time signs, animals, and bed time signs.

• Babies and Toddlers I is a circle time for parents and their infant or toddler ages 10 to 36 months. The goals of this class are to facilitate early communication between you and your child, reduce frustration for both of you, and provide age-appropriate stimulating language activities. Some of the ASL vocabulary covered for this age group includes: beginning words and phrases, animals, action words, basic food, family and daily routines in your child's life.

• Babies and Toddlers II is for those who have completed Babies and Toddlers I.

• Babies and Toddlers III is for those who have completed Babies and Toddlers II.

• Advanced Babies and Toddlers combines material from Babies and Toddlers II and III for children ages 15 to 40 months.

• Toddler Time is a circle time for parents and their child 2 to 4 years old. This class continues to build receptive sign language skills for the children, provides increased ASL vocabulary for parents to model and focuses on developing expressive sign language skills for the children. This class role models how to rely on sign language for children who are still developing their speech. Signing vocabulary includes: animals, food, colors, feelings, vehicles, safety, weather and people.

• Preschoolers is a circle time for parents and their 3 and 5 year olds. This class builds sign language skills through songs, games, storytelling, and an occasional art project. Children put sentences together in sign language and learn the manual alphabet (finger spelling) and numbers. Children learn about the calendar, opposites, name signs, people in the community and holidays through age-appropriate sign language activities.

• Hands in Motion™ is for children ages 4 to 7 years of age with an adult. Music, American Sign Language (ASL), engaging stories, and art all rolled into one! Utilizing the multiple learning styles of young creative learners, children will learn to sign through songs, games, stories, and art.