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Rugrat Round Up- Hearing Hands
(313) 407-8184
Clermont, Florida 34714
send e-mail to rugratroundup at yahoo dot com
Signing Classes , Workshops, Playgroups
Course Description
Are you frustrated knowing that your child is trying to tell you something and you dont know what? Children have control over their hands before they can vocalize what they need. Let me help you take that frustration away from you and your child with teaching you how to sign with your child. This is an amazing program. Research has show deaf as well as hearing children as young as 8 months benefiting from learning sign langauge. It not only helps when they cant speak, it will also increase their vocabulary when they can!
Presenter Profile
I began taking signing classes formally in 1997. I have completed my ASL II class at Oakland Community College in Michigan, as well as participating in seminars on Deaf Culture. I am working towards my sign language interpreter certification. I owned and ran my own licensed daycare for 6 years and am now a nanny. During that time, I had a Deaf child in my daycare. She taught me just how important it was for my children to learn to sign as well. They wanted to "talk" with Gracie but they would just say, "Mommy what does she want" I then started teaching them signs that she used. Before you knew it all the children would be in the sandbox chatting away! It is amazing to see.
Isnt it up to us as parents to give our children all the tools they need to excel in life? In my opinion this is one tool we shouldnt leave them without!
I am now combining my two passions of signing and children. I have used signs with my hearing children since they were infants. Now at 10 and 6 years old they still love to sign,especially when im on the phone! I think if they dont speak, its not interupting! Were working on that!
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LEARN TO READ WITH SIGN LANGUAGE
Age 5 and Up
The program consists of 100 lessons divided into three units. The objectives of Unit I are phonemic awareness, letter names, sight words and the reading of simple sentences and stories. The iconic nature of signing - the fact that the signs illustrate the words they represent - plays a key role in helping students learn the sight words they need to "get them reading". The objective of Unit II is the sounds of the letters. What makes the letter sounds more meaningful to the students is that they can relate them to the words they have learned to read in Unit I. Again signing helps - this time with the use of the finger alphabet. And finally the objective of Unit III is the blending of letter sounds in the reading and writing of word families. Finger spelling again plays a key role because it helps the students sound out the words as they finger spell the words.
SIGNING WORKSHOP IN YOUR HOME OR OFFICE
Great for child care centers, birthday parties, hospitals, church groups, just plain fun with friends.
You set the time, place and the length you want.
IN-DEPTH MULTI-WEEK SIGNING CLASSES
Classes will be taught once a week over 4-12week period. This in depth program can be taught individually or in groups.
PLAYGROUPS
Time and place to be discussed between parents
Each parent will take a turn at their home or place they arrange.
Cost and Future Planned Events
LEARN2READ WITH SIGN LANGUAGE
Starting first Sat in Sept.
*Ages 5-10 (even if your child can read, this is a really fun way to learn signs and refresh reading skillls.)
*Class will meet each Sat at my Clermont home from 10:00am-10:45.
* Cost is $50 first child- each additonal child in the same family in $25.
*All materials included.
Pre-registration required for all classes and workshops
Last updated on May 7th, 2008
Lakeland Moms on the Move
Lakeland, Bartow, Winter Haven..., Florida 33803
send e-mail to jmpote at earthlink dot net
visit us at groups.yahoo.com/group/Lakeland_Moms_On_The_Move/
We are a very active Mom's group based in Polk County, with club events in Bartow, Lakeland, Winter Haven & more. In addition, we have monthly trips to Orlando and/or Tampa.
We currently have over 80 members, some of which are stay-at-home moms and some that work from home and/or outside the home. We are a non-nonsense, laid back group that understands everyone's parenting style is different and we respect those differences....No drama here!!
We host weekly walking meets where we meet at local parks and walk for 1-3 miles with our little ones. We also have monthly mom's night out, monthly weekend playdates and a monthly birthday playdate where we honor our members that are celebrating a birthday that month.
In addition we meet for weekly playdates at parks and the downtown childrens museum. Also, members of our group attend Mommy and Me, Kindermusik, Library Story time, Club Noggin and more together. We also have group lunches from time-to-time where the little ones are certainly welcomed!
Our online community includes our activity calendar, playdate alerts, group polls so you can vote on what we will do next, a message board, other mom's contact info, online resources and more!
Last updated on March 30th, 2008
Disney Addicts Playgroup
Davenport, Florida 33897
send e-mail to brycene at gmail dot com
visit us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/disneymomsplaygroup
I am looking to form a playgroup for parents in the Four Corners area near Disney who love the theme parks and attend them regularly.
Weather it is going to the Downtown Disney area just to walk around or the chance to go have lunch with another mom somewhere around the parks. It is much more fun to have friends to go hang out with.
Last updated on February 23rd, 2008
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