Sign Language Blog

April 24, 2007 on 5:00 am | In Sign Language |

Initiative pushes for Success by 6 in youngsters
Norman Transcript - Healthy Steps has a hot-line and many classes available to parents including baby sign language, infant massage classes and happiest baby on the block. There is no charge for this program. For more information call Chris Jarko at 579-2238 or e-mail

Environmentalist who gave up talking for 17 years gets heard
Wearford Democrat - At the University of Montana, where he was a teaching assistant, he used his personal sign language to lead classroom discussions a surprisingly effective teaching method, he says, because students were forced to work together to figure out what

Baby fair offers a host of options for parents
Herald News - Terri Hubbard was on hand with her big, fuzzy teddy bear demonstrating baby sign language and promoting her business FasTracKids.The Naperville-based educational center offers signing classes for hard-of-hearing children between the ages of 6 months

ANDERSON’S DRAFT PARTY
USA Today - Such simple steps are second nature to the Andersons, who all use American Sign Language. “Being deaf is not isolating when one is in the company of others who know sign language,” says Anderson’s father, Glenn. “In addition, it is not isolating when

OC Slices:Chores wrapped up on road
Orange County Register - The paranoid few shared their limited sign language with me. Through my decidedly unscientific observations here’s what I saw. Talk, talk, talk . Many of you were chatting your way through traffic on cell phones. As traffic slowed, phones came up

She knew what she wanted to be
Free Lance-Star - By the time she was 9, Brittany Allen knew what she wanted to be when she grew up. The Stafford County native was in the third grade when she joined a sign-language club at Grafton Village Elementary School. She was so fond of Megan Clare, a deaf