What is Signing Time!?
Q: What is Signing Time!?
A: Signing Time! is a children's television show that teaches American Sign Language to children ages one through eight. It is hosted by Rachel de Azevedo Coleman and shown by American Public Television in many cities across the United States.
Q: How can sign language help children?
A: With just a few simple American Sign Language signs, babies and toddlers — some as young as nine months old — can show people their needs before they can speak, which may make them have fewer temper tantrums, even if they have disabilities. School-aged children enjoy the benefits of learning a second language. Children with developmental delays or special needs can find their own “voice” by using their hands to talk using sign language.
Q: How does Signing Time! teach children?
A: Signing Time helps children learn through three senses — visual (seeing), auditory (hearing), and kinesthetic (touch) — and reaches children with different learning styles and abilities by making children want to communicate with other people through signing, singing, speaking and dancing. In the series, songwriter and musician Rachel Coleman, her daughter Leah (who is deaf), Alex (Leah’s cousin who can hear), and their pet frog named Hopkins teach hundreds of useful American Sign Language signs.
Q: What kind of signs do kids learn from Signing Time!?
A: Children learn signs for words, questions, phrases, movements, colors, sports, days of the week, everyday objects, and activities that are done a lot.
Q: Is it easy for families to learn sign language together?
A: Yes! Signing Time! makes learning sign language easy for the whole family.
