Class Information
*45 minutes, once a week
*Parent or Caregiver attends with child
*10 week session
*At Home materials for Session A: Family Activity Guide, DVD glossary showing 60 signs, Clip-on flashcards that feature photos of both children and adults using family-friendly American Sign Language signs

*At Home materials for Session B:  Family Activity Guide, 30 new animal signs in the Animal Signs Flashcards, and a children’s DVD The Treasure Chest: Signs, Songs, and Rhymes. This music video DVD features children signing and singing animal-themed songs from class along with favorite toys from the toy room.

*Cost:$164 including materials $60 deposit is due at time of enrollment

   
 

Kindermusik Sign and Sing
 

 
 

Kindermusik Sign & Sing (Sessions A and B) Sign language curriculum for parents with hearing children

 

Through songs, toys, and loving playtime between you and your child, Kindermusik Sign & Sing (A) 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. 
 
To enhance and refine your sign language skills, we are also pleased to offer Sign and Sing (B).  This class introduces even more signs (including toys and animals) and gives parents a deeper understanding of the Four Keys to Signing Smart introduced during Session A.  At-Home materials include a Children's DVD called The Treasure Chest: Signs, Songs, and Rhymes.
 
  *Please note: Sign and Sing Session A is a prerequisite for Sign and Sing Session B. 

 

Songs and fingerplays. Already accustomed to fingerplays and rhyme-songs—such as "This Little Piggy"—you'll easily substitute American Sign Language (ASL) signs 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 theobjects 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.

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.