Everyone is talking about signing with young children. As a form of early communication for infants and toddlers, or as a transitioning tool for children just beginning to speak, the benefits of signing with hearing children are endless. Sign to Learn is the first complete introduction to sign language curriculum for hearing preschoolers. In this unique resource, you will learn how to integrate American Sign Language (ASL) into your classroom to enhance the academic, social, and emotional development of children, and how to respectfully introduce children to Deaf culture. This comprehensive, fully illustrated curriculum contains captivating activities and lesson plans grouped by themes, including feelings, food, seasons, animals, songs, and families. Sign to Learn also contains strategies for using sign language with children with special needs and in multilingual classrooms, and it describes how ASL can assist you in developing a literacy program and in managing your classroom. Information-rich appendices include a thorough ASL illustration index, sample letters to families, and resources for further reading.

Over half a million people communicate in American Sign Language (ASL) each day; this is your chance to learn the first 250 signs of this comprehensive language, with Learn American Sign Language. American Sign Language is a vibrant language that is surprisingly easy-to-learn. Current with the latest additions to ASL, and filled with hundreds of photographs, Learn American Sign Language is the most comprehensive beginner's guide of its kind. Learn American Sign Language is a kit which includes 50 flash cards, one large poster, and an 80-page instruction book. Using these tools, you will learn more than 250 signs which you'll be able to combine into phrases. Some of the signs you will learn include signs for: Things at school In the workplace Around the house Out and about Food and drink Nature Emotions Small talk and more Unlock the storytelling possibilities of ASL with classifiers, easy ways to modify signs, and find out how to make sentences with signs by using the proper facial expressions.

"I love you." "What can I get you?" "Let's take a walk." Wanting to say simple things like these but not being able to is frustrating and disheartening—but learning how to communicate can be easy and fun! This book is a basic guide to the alphabet, vocabulary, and techniques it takes to connect using American Sign Language. Whether signing out of necessity or learning for the sake of growing, you will enjoy this practical primer. After reading this book, you will be able to use American Sign Language in a social, educational, or professional setting. Whether the goal is to communicate with hearing-impaired grandparent, a child with special needs in school, or an infant, people learn sign language for many different reasons. Easy to read and reference—and complete with images and examples of common signs—this basic guide allows you to make a meaningful connection that's otherwise impossible.

Cozmic Contents If you’re an intuitive, yet practical, learner, you will enjoy this soulfully detailed astrology book by Joan Zodianz. This isn’t your regular cookie-cutter astrology book. You will learn the good, the bad, the beautiful, the ugly sides of each planet and each zodiac sign. Think of this book as a self-help book for your soul’s energy. See astrology from a much higher perspective - Macro and Micro Perspectives of Planets - Evolution of energy in planets, houses, elements, modalities, and zodiac signs - Evolved (light) and unevolved (shadow) versions of each zodiac sign - Moon and Planetary descriptions under each zodiac sign - Reading horoscopes and ephemeris’ correctly - Multiple charts and beautiful hand-drawn illustrations - Thorough, intuitive, and practical astrological patterns and phrases for you to easily remember Excerpts from book: “From the Sun (luminary), we are born into the physical realm; and as we reach Pluto, the last planet, we transition into the spiritual realm to die. As morbid as it sounds, it’s just how our energy works. The planets and luminaries are then split into two categories: inner/internal and outer/external, and every planet possesses their own type of energy and specialty. From the internal planets, the Sun shines on planets that impact our personalities. It’s how we function as an individual. From the external planets, the darkness of these worlds helps us utilize our personality and inner strengths to overcome events of the physical realm. It’s how we shine our light in dark spaces.” About the Author Joan Zodianz is a professional astrologer, angel medium, intuitive artist, and tarot reader. She has been developing her spiritual gifts since childhood. She has a love of spirituality, obsession with astrology, and strong connection with Archangels.

Simplified Signs presents a system of manual sign communication intended for special populations who have had limited success mastering spoken or full sign languages. It is the culmination of over twenty years of research and development by the authors. The Simplified Sign System has been developed and tested for ease of sign comprehension, memorization, and formation by limiting the complexity of the motor skills required to form each sign, and by ensuring that each sign visually resembles the meaning it conveys. Volume 1 outlines the research underpinning and informing the project, and places the Simplified Sign System in a wider context of sign usage, historically and by different populations. Volume 2 presents the lexicon of signs, totalling approximately 1000 signs, each with a clear illustration and a written description of how the sign is formed, as well as a memory aid that connects the sign visually to the meaning that it conveys. While the Simplified Sign System originally was developed to meet the needs of persons with intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, autism, or aphasia, it may also assist the communication needs of a wider audience – such as healthcare professionals, aid workers, military personnel , travellers or parents, and children who have not yet mastered spoken language. The system also has been shown to enhance learning for individuals studying a foreign language. Lucid and comprehensive, this work constitutes a valuable resource that will enhance the communicative interactions of many different people, and will be of great interest to researchers and educators alike.

One of the foremost authorities on the use of sign language with hearing children provides a guide for teachers and parents who want to introduce signing in hearing children's language development. Marilyn Daniels provides a complete explanation for its use, a short history of sign language and its primary role within the Deaf community, an identification of the steps to reading success delineated with suggestions for incorporating sign language, and finally the results of studies and reactions of children, teachers, and parents. She shows how sign language can be used to improve hearing children's English vocabulary, reading ability, spelling proficiency, self-esteem, and comfort with expressing emotions. Signing also facilitates communication, aids teachers with classroom management, and has been shown to promote a more comfortable learning environment while initiating an interest and enthusiasm for learning on the part of students. Sign language is shown to be an effective agent to accelerate literacy in hearing children from babyhood through sixth grade. A comprehensive exploration of the physiological rationale for the educational advantage sign carries is presented. Overlapping integrated brain activities are incited by movement, vision, meaning, memory, play and the hand itself when sign language is used. Recent findings clearly indicate this bilingual approach with hearing children activates brain growth and development.