A different approach from other sign language programs. Through songs, toys, and loving playtime between you and your child, Kindermusik Sign & Sing shows you more than 50 signs your child can use to communicate with you. Using research-proven methods shown to speed language development in hearing children, you'll see how sign language can ease frustration and enhance long-term learning abilities for your child.

Songs and fingerplays. Already accustomed to fingerplays and rhyme-songs -- such as "This Little Piggy" -- you'll easily substitute American Sign Language (ASL) signs in familiar songs, improving your child's language skills, fine motor skills, and strengthen fingers for zipping zippers and using scissors.

Learn when you play. You'll never have to memorize a list of signs. This curriculum gives you the ASL signs that are most useful to you, and most interesting to your child. So playtime and everyday items around the house -- ball, bubbles, mom and dad -- become the objects of learning in the classroom, and sign language becomes a natural, happy part of your child's day.

Hearing children who know signs, learn language almost twice as fast. As early as 11-14 months old, hearing children exposed to sign language put short sentences together faster than non-signing children, who do not begin to combine words into short sentences, such as "Da-da car" until the average age of 20 months.

Benefits for Your Child and You

• Communicate with your child even before she can form the words.


• Ease a child's frustration by helping her communicate what she needs, speed language development, and enhance long-term learning abilities.


• Know when your child is most ready to interact and learn.


• Learn sign language teaching methods, such as making the sign on a child's body, on the floor, or hand over hand.


• Recognize and respond to your child's version of signs.

At Home Materials

Enjoy the journey all week long with the At Home materials included with your class. Family involvement in your child's learning is a fundamental cornerstone of the Kindermusik philosophy because we believe the parent is the child's most important teacher and the home is the most important place for learning to take place. You'll use your At Home materials at home to cultivate the seeds of learning that are planted each week in class.

• Family Activity Guide


• DVD glossary showing 60 signs


• Clip-on flashcards that feature photos of both children and adults using family-friendly American Sign Language signs