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Sing & Sign for Young Children: A Guide for Early Childhood Professionals
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Watson, Anne Meeker – Brookes Publishing Company, 2022
Research shows that teaching sign language to all young children has a wide range of benefits, from enhancing social-emotional and preliteracy skills to supporting positive parent-child relationships. With "Sing & Sign for Young Children," early childhood professionals will have a fun, easy, and highly effective way to teach and…
Descriptors: Teaching Guides, Preschool Teachers, Singing, Sign Language
Signing in School: It's Elementary.
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Luetke-Stahlman, Barbara; Beaver, Darcy – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1994
This article encourages hearing individuals in the elementary school community to learn sign language. Suggestions include having students teach students, having family sign classes, incorporating sign instruction throughout the day, giving everyone a name sign, and having schoolwide events in which signing is featured. (DB)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Education, Family Involvement, Hearing Impairments
Let Your Fingers Do the Talking: Hands-on Language Learning through Signing.
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Good, Linda A.; And Others – Childhood Education, 1994
Learning sign language is a multisensory, high-interest, developmentally appropriate activity for young children. Learning to sign improves children's attention, self-esteem, motivation, sensitivity to others, language development, reading and math readiness, behavior management, vocabularies, and retention; and allows for inclusion of special…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition
Project: "Teach 'n' Reach" Communicatively Handicapped: Hearing Impaired, Language Impaired. (Book 2 out of 4.)
Kagan, Arleen – 1981
The third of five volumes (and the second of the four curriculum guides) of Project Teach 'n' Reach, a program to help regular classroom teachers teach nondisabled students about disabilities, deals with communication handicaps. The curriculum addresses the following issues under the topic of hearing impairments: anatomical structures of the ear,…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Communication Disorders, Communication Skills
John Tracy Clinic Correspondence Learning Program for Parents of Preschool Deaf-Blind Children.
Thielman, Virginia B.; And Others – 1973
Intended for parents of deaf blind preschoolers, the document contains a correspondence learning program which offers guidelines on stimulating the child's development. An introductory section gives preliminary instructions, an introduction to sign language, and a list of resources for deaf blind children. Twelve lessons follow with information…
Descriptors: Child Development, Communication Skills, Correspondence Study, Daily Living Skills
John Tracy Clinic: Programa de Ensenanza por Correspondencia para Los Padres de Ninos Sordo-Ciegos de Edad Preescolar (John Tracy Clinic Correspondence Learning Program for Parents of Preschool Deaf-Blind Children).
Thielman, Virginia B.; And Others – 1973
Written in Spanish, the document contains a correspondence learning program for parents of deaf blind preschoolers. An introductory section gives preliminary instructions, an introduction to sign language, and a list of resources for deaf blind children. Twelve lessons follow with information on: the parent's role in teaching the child, visual…
Descriptors: Child Development, Communication Skills, Correspondence Study, Daily Living Skills