Original Children's Software - Sign Language For Hearing Kids
KiddiesSigns.com is delighted to announce an original new children's software - that teaches sign language to hearing kids ! The first of its kind, this online software allows children and parents to be playing and learning sign language within minutes. A welcome, original product for families who are becoming hooked on the fun, educational activity of signing.
KiddiesSigns.com is delighted to announce an original new children's software - that teaches sign language to hearing kids !
It is available at http://www.KiddiesSigns.com - conveniently online so that families can start playing and learning within minutes.
Sign language for hearing babies and children is a recently new educational activity that more and more parents are engaging in. The KiddiesSigns.com software is one of the first softwares created for these families discovering sign language.
Priced at only $3 for a one week online rental, this software is significantly more affordable, accessible and convenient than other sign language products for parents who are hungry for new sign language materials to share with their young children.
The delightful KiddiesSigns.com software is fun for babies and small children to play, as they sit on the laps of their parents, grandparents or caregivers.
Animated cartoon stories, songs and mouse-clicking, keyboard-banging games introduce and reinforce sign language vocabulary that parents and small children can use in their daily communications with each other.
Although this sign language software contains songs, music and fun sound effects to engage hearing children, it also proudly has features to maximize the enjoyment of deaf and hard-of-hearing children. The sign language used in this software is American Sign Language - ASL - the language of the anglophone Deaf community of North America.
Why are hearing parents starting to use sign language with their hearing children? The biggest attraction is being able to have meaningful communication with pre-verbal babies and imprecisely-verbal toddlers.
Ever since the publication of research and how-to books showing the increased verbal skills, intelligence scores and happiness of hearing toddlers who use sign language, the educational activity of signing with hearing babies was initiated and is quickly gaining in popularity.
Further research using sign language to teach reading and writing to hearing children consistently showed this method achieving superior literacy skills in those children.
Parents and teachers of special needs children that have verbal communication challenges are also big fans of using sign language to communicate with children.
The enduring baby signing craze was started by how-to books explaining to parents the methods and benefits of baby signing. A step up from this were signing videos that started to appear, aimed at toddlers and children. Obviously, videos are more engaging and effective for showing a visual-spatial-temporal sign language than the printed word.
Now the KiddiesSigns.com software has arrived and is a step above the signing videos in various pedagogical ways. Software is, by its nature, more interactive and user-controllable than passively watching TV, eliciting interactive response from the children playing the software. The KiddiesSigns.com software is specially designed open-ended exploration and positively encouraging, with no negative responses. This software also highlights the hand positions of the sign language vocabulary, more so than continuous video footage. Linguistic studies have shown the hand position component to be one of the crucial components of sign language structure.
A KiddiesSigns.com Partner Program has also been developed for teachers and others who want to promote sign language, to do so easily and freely using the KiddiesSigns.com software. The Partner Program is available at http://www.KiddiesSigns.com/partnerprogram
Children who are starting to learn sign language can play this software without supervision. However, it is recommended that others in the family join in, so that family members can practise communicating with each other using the signs learned in this software.
KiddiesSigns.com invites parents, babies and children interested in having fun learning sign language to visit http://www.KiddiesSigns.com for a new, original, fun sign language software.
http://www.KiddiesSigns.com : Sign language software for hearing kids that you can download and play in minutes.
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...parenting tip of the moment
The second reality of Baby Time...BABIES SLOW DOWN TIME...Things that feel like they're taking an hour actually are not. I was once so proud of having successfully entertained my son for an entire afternoon. I designed and constructed an immense building-block fortress, played a vigorous round of "Where's-Daddy's-Nose?/Where-Are-Daddy's-Ears?" and rendered a poignant reading of Harry the Hippo, only to glance at my watch and discover that in fact seven minutes had elapsed.
quoted from "Babyhood" by Paul Reiser of television's "Mad About You", page 168
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