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Summary: Best ASL video for children and parents alike!
Review: I bought this video when my daughter was 11 months old. She is now 2 and 1/2 years old. She loves watching the video and hearing the songs. The videos reinforced what I was already teaching her. After a couple of weeks of watching the videos her signing exploded! She was eager to learn new signs that it was hard keeping up with her. The videos are so well constructed that my daughter learned to recognize the words on the screen, meaning she could say the word and do the sign for it even before they did. My goal was for my daughter to be able to communicate with me before she could verbalize her wants and needs. With the help of these videos we achieved that. We couldn't wait for new videos to come out as she had mastered all the signs on the first 3 videos within the first 6 months. Now we are moving on to expanding our ASL and will buy volumes 4-6. I can't say enough great things about vol. 1-3, except for BUY THEM and see for yourself "D
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Summary: Signing Time is a true sign of the times!
Review: I cannot say enough about the positive messages that are taught in the Signing Time series! Everyday Signs impresses me everytime I watch it! My son has learned to sign happy, sad, night and day along with many others! For a 23 month old I am very proud. He not only can sign them, but understands them and uses them correctly! I am still amazed everyday that I am able to communicate with my toddler and thrilled he can express his feeling! I have raised another child without signing (she is now 18 years old) and this has been a godsend!!!
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Summary: Signing Time -- WONDERFUL!
Review: I got Volumes 1-3 right after we had my 2 1/2 yr old tested for language delays. She barely missed the cutoff for services, but we were still concerned. She only had 30 word appoximations! Well, after watching the videos for 1 week, she had picked up 15 signs with the clear spoken word to match! by the end of 5 weeks, she could speak and sign all 100 or so signs from the set! (I also have a 4 1/2 yr old who has also improved with these videos. Plus, my 7 month old daughter is often enthralled with them. She recognizes the sign for "milk" and gets excited when we sign it!)
My husband is Deaf, so we do use sign at home, but she refused to pick up EITHER language. These videos provided a way for her to communicate! Now she is picking up the signs/words from Vol 4-6 just as quickly, and she is stringing words and signs together.
The songs are so fun! You will be singing them even if there are no kids around! I love these videos and what they have given to my daughter!! :)
Jennie
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Summary: Fantastic
Review: I have all 6 volumes of these videos, plus I have the two music CDs. These are great in learning sign language. I highly recommend them for anyone wanting to learn!
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Summary: I had to say something
Review: I wanted to say something in response to the reviewer who claimed that there isn't much ethnic diversity in the cast, and that boys don't play with dolls, etc. In my Signing Time videos (which I assume are the same as theirs :), there are quite a few children who appear to be from non-white or mixed ethnic origin (I counted seven of them in one ten-minute segment of one of the videos - not to mention the white children who appear to be from Scandanavian or Irish ancestry). As for the implication that the videos only depict "traditional" male/female roles - according to my memory, the videos show boys hugging teddy bears, girls playing soccer, dads and grandpas holding babies and children, a female police officer, a grandpa and grandma doing dishes together, a boy riding a pink bike, and so on. It's funny how in today's society people demand that both diversity and sameness be emphasized (i.e., it's imperative to recognize diversity in races/religions, but genders have to be neutral?). It seems pretty clear to me that the Signing Time people made an effort to be "politically correct". True, there are more white children than children of color, but that just reflects the population where the videos were filmed. I hope that most parents appreciate that kids' attitudes are influenced more by what their parents model to them than by what they see on TV.That said, let me say that the "Signing Time" videos are pure delight. Besides doing an excellent job of teaching signs, they depict happy children and happy families having fun together - something we all need to see more often.
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Summary: Every child should have these videos!
Review: If you are wondering about a great video for your toddler or child to watch, this is it!
Volume 3 introduces more basic signs, Everyday Signs. These include some food signs, a couple emotions, and more. The songs are very captivating and teach even more signs.
Signing Time is a great way to introduce children to a second language, ASL. It is also the perfect way for babies to communicate before they develop speech. I can't count the times we've prevented a temper tantrum! These videos have really given my daughter confidence because she knows she can use signs to tell us what she wants, even when she does not know the word or cannot yet speak it clearly. These videos have also given us a great way to communicate with my young cousin who is disabled, and any Deaf people we may meet.
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Summary: This was so good we had to replace after we wore it out
Review: My child watched this so much that she wore it out and we had to order a new copy before she was happy again. She actually goes to bed with signing time every single night and it's the first thing she puts on in the morning. She loves it!
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Summary: Amazing videos, my son was up to 40 signs in 2 mos!
Review: My son has a birth defect that causes speech delay. He had been going to speech therapy for months in which they were trying to teach him sign so he could communicate in some way until he could speak. Months and month he didnt sign one word until we bought the signing time videos, the next day he was signing and is now up to 40 signs in 2 months and still going strong! He is so happy to be communicating and he thinks it is fun! I highly recommend these videos to EVERY parent, my husband and I love to watch them to and the music is awesome!!!!
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Summary: WE LOVE SIGNING TIME!!!!!
Review: My son is 18 months old and we just discovered the Signing Time dvd series about 2 weeks ago. Before watching these DVDs my son knew only a handful or so of ASL signs and he wasn't using them regularly. Atfer watching Signing Time, his sign language vocab pretty much doubled in a weeks time. Volume 3 is our favorite for the Pizza song and I'm Proud to be me song! I can't wait to see all the other dvds that have recently been released. I'd have to say my family has become "addicted to Signing Time" dvds!!! We love them and just can't seem to get enough! Even my 9 year old loves to sit and watch them too!
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Summary: Excellent Series!
Review: My son LOVES this DVD! He would watch it 24/7 if I let him. He has learned all the signs and is still excited to watch it. I really don't know what it is about the DVD, but every kid I've let watch it is just captured by it. It's amazing! I'd recommend it to anyone.
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