ABCMeSign - Sign Language Classes for hearing infants and young children

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parent-child classes

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 are designed for expectant parents and parents/caregivers of newborns through 15 months of age. 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.

• Baby Signers This is the class where all the fun begins. Join us each week for 45 minutes of learning fun and practical signs, interactive games, songs, storytelling, and parenting skills. This class promotes early communication between you and your child, reduces frustration for both of you, and provide age-appropriate stimulating language activities Join us to discover the impact you can have on your child’s cognitive and language development through signing, singing, music, movement, and creative play.
  Instructor Jill Fales, M.Ed.

• Little SignersMusic, American Sign Language (ASL), story time and creative play all rolled into one! Utilizing the multiple learning styles of young creative learners, children will have fun while building language and literacy skills.
  Instructor Jill Fales, M.Ed.

• Signs for School Success Ready. Set. Learn. Good reading skills are the foundation for all future learning and research shows that signing builds literacy and spelling skills, number recognition and writing skills. Join us as we give your child a jump start to school success all while having fun!
  Instructor Jill Fales M.Ed.

• Sign , Sing and Play Family Time Babies as young as one year, children in pre-school, and toddlers anywhere in between will benefit from this unique combination of American Sign Language and music, games, stories, and creative play. ABC me Sign™ circle time classes are research-based and designed to promote family communication while enhancing motivation to speak, increasing IQ, improving vocabulary and literacy skills, decreasing frustration, and refining motor coordination. Join us to discover the impact you can have on your child’s cognitive and language development through signing, singing, music, movement, and creative play.
  Instructor Jennifer Buckman, M.Ed.

• Growing Together is a class 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 are designed for expectant parents and parents of newborns through 15 months of age. 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.
  Instructor Jennifer Buckman M.Ed.

• Brownies/Girl Scouts Triads ABC me Sign provides a fun ASL meeting that can help your Brownie or Girl Scout meet thier sign language Triad.