Sponsored by Brookes Publishing.
Teaching hearing children to sign is an extension of the types of nonverbal communication they already use to get your attention, including facial expression, gesturing, making noise, crawling, toddling toward an object of desire, and more. Focusing on communication has never been more important given lost opportunities during the pandemic to learn and practice language skills.
Join music therapist, early childhood consultant and author, Dr. Anne Meeker Watson for this engaging webinar. You can expect a rousing session that will be equal parts sign language instruction, music, play, and JOY.
In this interactive and informative presentation to learn:
- Simple steps to get started signing with young children
- Key benefits of signing with young children, including support of oral language, regulation, routines and transitions, pre-literacy, and child-directed experience
- The benefits of combining sign and song for child development
- Easy ways to incorporate signing across the environments and routines of your day with young children
Get ready for an interactive and enjoyable hour with great information and ideas you can utilize immediately in your work – and play – with youngsters.
Learning Objectives:
1. Define joint attention and its importance for early language.
2. Explain the difference between ASL signs, invented signs, and sign approximations.
3. List the three steps children typically master to sign in order to communicate.
4. Describe the benefits of incorporating music and sign for child development.
5. List three ways to incorporate key signed vocabulary across the environments and routines of your day with young children.
All sessions are 1.5 hours long and include a brief announcement from our sponsor.
2:oo PM – 3:30 PM Eastern Time.
To ensure you receive confirmation and reminder emails, add [email protected] to your contacts list. If you do not receive your email confirmation, check your Spam or Junk mail folders in your email system.
Can’t participate in our webinars at the appointed time? Never fear! All of the webinars are recorded. To view the recording, simply register now and you will receive an email with a link to the recording when it is ready to be viewed. You can still download the certificate by watching the recording to the end when the certificate link is announced and displayed on the screen.
Only 3,000 people at one time can attend our webinars, but registration often tops 4,000. Only the first 3,000 people to click the link to attend the webinar will be able to get in. We start the webinars 30 minutes in advance of the start time. Arrive early to make sure you get in.
Please be advised that you will only be eligible for the great door prizes if you participate in the live session.
You can earn .2 CEUs for each webinar. The cost is $15 paid to University of Oklahoma online when you apply. Learn more here: Continuing Education Units (CEUs) from University of Oklahoma
