NOW SPECIALIZING IN WORKSHOPS FOR CHILD CARE CENTERS! PROFESSIONAL GROWTH 3 HOUR WORKSHOP CAN CERTIFY YOUR STAFF TO TEACH AND USE BABY SIGNS® IN YOUR CENTER! Message me for more information! I will travel! Program Overview and Benefits:
-Parents and their babies will enjoy 6 weeks of fun-filled play classes with lots of singing, signing, and dancing activities that highlight important developmenta
l skills.
-Sign, Say & Play™ is designed especially for parents and their hearing babies aged 6 months – 3 years.
-The Baby Signs® Program helps hearing babies communicate through simple, easy to learn, signs until they can talk.
-With the Baby Signs® Program, parents teach babies to use simple signs to communicate important things – like being hungry or thirsty, hot or cold, afraid or sad – often a full year before babies could otherwise speak.
-Through two decades of research it has demonstrated that the Baby Signs® Program has dramatic benefits, including decreasing frustration for babies and parents, enriching the parent-child bond, boosting emotional development, helping babies talk sooner – even jumpstarting intellectual development. Content: This interactive parent participation play group will help parents to learn useful signs, songs, and games to begin signing right away. Class includes fun activities and parent education topics to stimulate growth in your baby's motor, cognitive, language, literacy, social and emotional development. Length of Play Class: Participants will meet for 45 minutes, once a week for 6 weeks. Class size: Maximum of 8 families (no siblings, please)
Instructor: Liz Shaw, Deaf Education Teacher, Masters in Early Childhood, Baby Signs® Independent Certified Instructor
Fees for Classes and Workshops
• Parent Workshop - $60.00 (includes Parent Kit)
• Sign, Say & Play® Classes - $150.00 ($50 for optional Sign, Say & Play Kit) - parents and babies attend six weekly classes (45 min.) and learn basic signs from themes like mealtime, bedtime, bath time, etc. Weekly handouts include helpful ideas for signing at home and what to expect as babies move from signs to speech. Best for babies at least eight months and sitting up on their own.
• More Sign, Say & Play® Class - $150.00 - same as first class but more advanced emotional development topics and six new themes of signs (feelings, safety, outside, etc.). Toddlers should know a few signs and be a little older for this class (14 - 20 mths)
On The Grow™ Classes
• Rumble Tumble Tummy Time - $50 - four-week series (45 min. each week) - For babies 2-6 months old to learn fun activities to help them spend the right amount of time on their tummies for appropriate development. See "On The Grow" tab for more classes for older toddlers and children up to five years old.
• Promotional Presentations and Story Time Presentations are FREE. Check the CALENDAR tab to see what's scheduled then contact Liz at (248) 444-4685 or [email protected] to register.
