If you’ve taken a class with us, or your kids have worked with one of our instructors: we really hope you’ve liked it! With any luck, you’ve seen the benefit of taking classes in another language and have loved learning ASL just as much as we all love teaching it. […]
Baby Signing Seattle
Baby Signing Tip – Signing is Quiet
Use signs to communicate from across the room, in quiet settings (places of worship), or when your child is being disciplined but you don’t want to embarrass them.
Deaf Culture Tip – The Greatest Irony
The Greatest Irony: While hearing families of hearing children are encouraged to sign with their babies and young children, not all Deaf children are encouraged to sign. Please click on the image to watch this very important video about giving Deaf children the opportunity to communicate through Sign Language.
How signing helps with manners
In “Who’s Baby Signing in Hollywood?”, we featured fashionista Kimora Lee Simmons as one of many celebrity parents who teach their babies to sign. While her son Kenzo was barely a toddler, she used baby signing as a means to develop his manners early: “It helps with communication so you […]
Sign of the Week – SNAKE
To execute the sign for SNAKE, start with your index finger and your middle finger bent in front of your mouth, then bring your hand out while “slithering” side to side as if representing the fangs of a snake as shown in the illustration.
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