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Wednesday, October 22, 2003
Look Who's Signing
Have Fun Signing When You Sing, Play, Read
and Explore the World With Your Baby
From a very young age, children can tell us a lot more than we can
believe. Can you imagine a baby telling you
“I like the color
blue”,
or “I
see the squirrel” without uttering a word? The team that created the
Baby’s First
Signs books have produced two new board books to help toddlers learn
American Sign Language (ASL) signs,
A Book of
Colors and
Out for a Walk. In A Book of Colors, charming characters and objects
help children learn the signs for favorite colors. Out for a Walk offers
parents and children a selection of common, everyday signs that might be used on
a walk through the neighborhood.
Learning basic ASL signs
encourages infants, toddlers, and preschoolers to explore their world by giving
them the means to name, inquire about, and describe what they find. Research
shows that all children, regardless of their hearing ability, benefit from
learning sign language. They experience reduced frustration, accelerated
language development, and greater interactive bonding when their parents use
sign language with them. Each of the new books clearly illustrates signs that are
easy to learn and fun to use. Printed on robust cardboard stock, these
delightful full-color books will engage toddlers in new topics as they discover
more basic signs, proven to accelerate their grasp of language. View a select
assortment of these brightly colored illustrations from
A
Book of Colors and
Out for a Walk, and take
advantage of your exclusive subscriber 20% discount by
ordering today.
 The Baby’s
First Signs series also includes Baby’s First
Signs
and More Baby’s First Signs
which grabbed the attention of School Library Journal
in a previous review: “In both titles, a brown-skinned toddler
signs elementary words such as ‘ball,’ ‘sleep,’ ‘hot,’ and ‘rain’ in American Sign Language (ASL). A
small box with a clear pencil illustration of the directions for signing the
word appears in the corner of each larger picture of the child interacting with
Dad and Mom. The bright, simple illustrations outlined in black will be
appealing to preschoolers. The note on the back of the books points out, ‘...a growing number of researchers
agree that not only deaf children but also hearing children can benefit from
early exposure to sign language, often learning basic signs as early as nine
months old, before they learn spoken words.’” View the illustrations from
Baby’s First Signs and
More Baby’s First Signs and
order both.
 David
A. Stewart and Bryan R. Clarke’s
Literacy and
Your Deaf Child garnered the following acclaim from Library
Bookwatch, an official newsletter of The Midwest Book Review: “Emphasizing
the developmental link between American Sign Language and English literacy for
children who learn and use it, Literacy and Your Deaf Child is an
excellent informational and guide volume and is very highly recommended for
anyone who works with hearing-disabled children.” In chapter one of Literacy
and Your Deaf Child, authors David A. Stewart and Bryan R. Clarke define
literacy, stating: “For many people, literacy means the ability to communicate,
to read and write, to calculate and, with the advent of cyberspace, use a
computer. The latter is made evident by the recently invented term
computer-literate.” This new guide equips parents with the information they
need to ensure that their deaf or hard of hearing child becomes a proficient
reader and writer and develops overall literacy skills that will enable him to
function in an increasingly print-oriented world.
Read the
review in its entirety along with chapter eight,
Writing, and
order
Literacy and Your Deaf Child.
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