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Signing Time Volume 6: My Favorite Things DVD

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As the mother of twins, one hearing and one deaf, I have had the opportunity to check out many programs for teaching ASL to small children. This is by far the best series out there. Most other products are so boring that parents must struggle to stay awake during the production, and there is no way a toddler would tolerate a viewing. My 2-year-old twins request Signing Time all of the time. At home they want the DVDs playing almost constantly. In the car my hearing daughter starts asking for the Signing Time CD before I even have her strapped into her carseat. My 2-year-old deaf daughter is using 5-sign sentences, which is almost unheard of for the deaf child of hearing parents. My extended family owns a total of 6 sets of Signing Time. Whenever my daughters' cousins have a birthday they ask for the latest Signing Time DVDs. Children of all ages love this product.

Most likely my favourite of all the Signing Time! DVDs. Shows ASL signs related to colours, fruits and vegetables and activities. This DVD is presented well and is a lot of fun to watch. The vocabulary and language concepts presented make it great for all children, especially 2-3 year olds.

My daughter (now 20 months) just loves signing time. Because she is in a dual language household (her grandmother speaks only Japanese), her language skills have been slow to develop. Signing has helped immensely with helping to communicate with her. All of the shows are her favorites.

My adult son is an ASL interpreter and I was researching to find a good child's ASL video. This is it!!! Lots of fun and good teaching.

I took sign language in college and learned the value of it immediately. When I had my daughter I immediately started using a few signs and found that she picked up eat and more at about 5 months. Then I found the Signing Times DVD's. I was so excited so I bought them all and started watching them with my daughter. These DVD's are the best thing I have bought for my daughter! She is 2-1/2 now and knows about 60 signs! I have never really had a problem with temper tantrums and our communication is wonderful! Plus she speaks so clearly already. I am very proud of her! I would recommend these videos to anyone - with or without children. They make learning some sign language fun!

We have all 6 volumes of Signing Time and they are the best way to teach kids signing. Not a bad way for the rest of the household to learn either! We started signing with our youngest son, William, when he was a baby. When he started Early Intervention (he has Trisomy 21, aka Down syndrome), the speech therapist recommended signing not just for communication but also to boost his speech. After trying various baby sign videos, books, etc., a friend on an online board raved about Signing Time. Volume 1 had us hooked, and we quickly bought 2 & 3 and anxiously awaited news of more volumes. William absorbed the signs, and we watched his communication skills grow.
Our set of volumes 5-6-7 arrived shortly before Christmas and my husband immediately opened them to watch. William and his siter (7), have quickly picked up the new signs from them, and we all go through the house singing the different songs~ the favorite right now is "Do you know the colors of the Rainbow?"

Since the arrival of the new set, William's speech and communication have taken off at warp speed! His first day at school yesterday since the holiday break amazed his teacher and the aides. They wanted to know how he learned so much while on the school break. Of course I told them it was his new signing time DVDs! The first thing he did when we got to school in themorning was to go up to one of his friends and point to her shirt and say "Green shir... Nemo 'n Dori on" He's known his colors for a couple years now, but after watching the DVD he points out everything and signs & says the color. He didn't just tell them some of the new signs from the set, he was directing the other kids in complete sentences! Huge milestone for him! His aide said when they cleaned up to get ready to go outside, he said, "C'mon, les ge backpacks on 'n go outside!"
I even watch them when the kids are at school, in hopes that I can become more fluent in signing... momma's never too old to learn too!

This is one of the better Signing Time videos. Beware, the songs are very 'catchey' and you will find yourself singing them throughout the day!

My 5 year old has been very interested in sign langauge and although we have the entire series of baby sign, I was looking for something that was a little more advanced with more signs. I picked up this video the other day at the library and I'm blown away by how well done it is. I couldn't believe that my 22 month old twins were so glued to the show. They aren't to the other baby signs video by another company. My 5 year old remembered 20 of the signs a few hours later after only watching it once. I'm going to get all the videos for my kids and their version of signing for babies. It is really fabulous.

These anticipated products lived up to their expectations! My 4 year old and 20 month old love to sing, dance and sign with Alex, Leah, Rachel and their friends. We can, and often do, watch Signing Time all day. They have given us a means of communication that has helped with the "terrible twos" and word recognition. My husband and I find ourselves signing with friends and family and love it.

This was the second dvd I bought for my 15 month old daughter. I bought volume 1 originally. My daughter loves this dvd the most, I think the fruit and veggie song catches her attention. :) Rachel Coleman does such a great job singing and signing so genuinely and effortlessly. While I think the first volume is what I would suggest to anyone looking into buying their first Signing Time! dvd, this dvd is great as well. The signs that are taught are very helpful and my daughter has learned over 30 signs between this volume and the first one. I enjoy these dvd's immensely myself. The songs are totally engaging, the repetition of the signs is helpful but not boring. I like seeing how other children do their signs, so that I can get a working knowledge of the variation in the way children will sign. I have just recently bought four more of the dvd's because they've been so educational and positive in my little family. :)