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Free Workshop Teaches Parents How to Communicate With Babies, Long Before They Learn To Talk
Are you looking for a feature story with strong emotional appeal with particular interest to parents, pediatricians, and educators? Audrey Rae, a licensed WeeHands™ instructor, FREE workshops for families in the Windsor, Ontario area.
Windsor, Ontario (Issues Wire / PRWEB) May 27, 2006 -- Are you looking for a feature story with strong emotional appeal with particular interest to parents, pediatricians, and educators? We've got a terrific story topic for you: babies and sign language. Using American Sign Language to communicate with preverbal hearing babies is one of the most fascinating and fastest growing parenting trends in North America.
Beginning as early as eight months of age, hearing babies can use simple signs to clearly tell their parents and caregivers what they want or what they are thinking. Imagine the relief parents feel when their baby can sign "MILK, PLEASE", “I'M HUNGRY", "CHANGE MY DIAPER", or "MY EAR HURTS" . . . instead of crying! Not only does signing reduce frustration, it also enhances child-parent bonding, accelerates verbal language development, and strengthens babies' cognitive skills.
Since 2001, the Canadian company WeeHands™ has taught over 4000 families, child care staff, teachers and other caregivers how to sign with their infants and toddlers. WeeHands™ teach parents ASL signs, songs and motivating language strategies parents need to teach their wee one!
Audrey Rae, a licensed WeeHands™ instructor, is mom to a preschooler, Alyssa; a toddler, Alana, and her youngest, baby Alexis. Audrey is a graduate from the Sign Language Interpreter program from St. Clair College. She has been signing with all three of her girls since they have been born. Audrey will be offering the following FREE workshops for families in the Windsor area:
Tuesday June 13th
1:45 - 2:30 pm
(45 minutes)
Sign with your Baby Introduction
Central Library
850 Ouellette Avenue, Windsor
no cost
Call 519-948-6008 to register
Thursday June 22nd
1:45 - 2:30 pm
(45 minutes)
Sign with your Baby Introduction
West Windsor (Bridgeview) Library
1295 Campbell Ave, Windsor
no cost
Call 519-948-6008 to register
Wednesday June 28th
10:00 - 10:45 am
(45 minutes)
Sign with your Baby Introduction
Leamington Library
1 John Street, Leamington
no cost
Call 519-948-6008 to register
To make it easy for you to write or produce an exciting and well-researched feature on using sign language with babies, WeeHands™ has teamed with Sign2Me out of Seattle, Washington. We have a Press Kit that includes information about the benefits of signing with hearing babies, citation of current research in this field, and an overview of SIGN with your BABY Program - the only signing program available for hearing infants that is based on American Sign Language.
For print media, the Kit includes a CD-Rom containing high quality, press-ready images, including a wide variety of images of signing babies. For television producers, we offer a professionally shot, 60-minute Broadcast video B-Roll Package (Beta SP) with heart-warming footage of signing babies, interviews with experts / parents, sample voiceover, and other ready-for-broadcast segments. To request a Press Kit or Video B-Roll, directly from Northlight Communications/SIGN with your BABY™ please contact Vince Kitely at or 1-877-744-6263.
Local Contact: Audrey Rae
519-948-6008
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