Research has shown that very young children can learn sign language before they learn to speak. Teach Your Tot to Sign: The Parents’ Guide to American Sign Language provides parents and teachers the opportunity to teach more than 500 basic American Sign Language (ASL) signs to their infants, toddlers, and young children. Hearing children, deaf children, and children with special needs can benefit from learning the elementary signs chosen for this handy pocket-size book. Young children who can communicate using simple signs become less frustrated and also bond in a special way with their parents. In teaching ASL to parents of toddlers and preschool teachers, author Stacy A. Thompson recognized the need for a book that could be used at home and in the classroom. Her book features fundamental signs of great appeal to young children and concise instructions on how to sign, including the critical importance of facial expression.
Teach Your Tot to Sign anticipates all of the common desires and interests of young children — food, pets, planes, trains, cars, and boats, games, holidays, vegetables, family — in short, nearly everything. Reflecting children’s endless curiosity, the vocabulary chosen ranges from signs for “baby,” “broken,” “clown,” “dinosaur,” “firefighter,” “gentle,” “hot,” “hurt,” “ketchup,” “pacifier,” “rooster,” “sad,” “spaghetti,” “wagon,” “water,” “wet,” to “you’re welcome,” and even “McDonalds.” This lively assortment of signs will help every child convey earlier in their development their thoughts, feelings, and desires to their parents and teachers.
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Stacy A. Thompson, a graduate of the Deaf Studies program at California State University Northridge, owns Signing Tots, in Simi Valley, CA, where she teaches parents and educators how to sign with hearing and deaf children.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
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Fabulous Book!!!,
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This review is from: Teach Your Tot to Sign: The Parents' Guide to American Sign Language (Paperback)
I have been signing since the age of 6, studied Deaf Education in College and was an interpreter for 3 years (until I became a Mom!). I now teach Sign with your Baby classes and this book is part of the curriculum in my class. I was so impressed with the amount of signs, the ease at understanding them, and the great illustrations, that I had to buy them for all the parents in my classes! This is a definate must have book for any parent that is wanting to learn American Sign Language, or just to brush up on skills.
Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous book!!!
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1. The signs are listed in alphabetical order; 2. Many vocabulary for toddlers (e.g., diaper, all gone, blanket, cereal); 3. provides concise information of American Sign Language (ASL), rationale for using sign language, FAQ, disphering the signs, and learning to sign; 4. Each sign is accompanied with an illustration; 5. This book could be used for babies as well, and probably could be used beyond toddler years (i.e., preschool and kindergarten). Needs for improvements: A. Illustrations: All llustrations are done with fine lines. Each shows a woman with a pony tail with a big bow signing the word or phrase, with arrows representing hand(s)/finger(s) movements. The illustrations looks great if there are artwork, but for illustration for sign language, I would recommend changes as follows: 1. Get rid of the big bow of the woman because the fine lines of the bow sometimes make readers miss the movement arrows of the signs; 2. Use thicker and darker lines for the arrows that make the movements clear; B. The organization of the book: It's great that the signs are in alphabetical order and has an index. However, since the signs are already in alphabetical order, the index is redundant -- It is as if a dictionary with an index. It would be better if the index is organized by topics, e.g., actions, animals, body, clothings, colors, food, people and pronouns, time, transportation,...
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Resource Guide for Parents,
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This review is from: Teach Your Tot to Sign: The Parents' Guide to American Sign Language (Paperback)
I think this little book is great for parents to use with their pre-verbal infant/toddler. It is small and compact enough to be carried around in their diaper bag plus it has signs that are meant for the vocabulary needs of young children.
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