Intermediate Handbook
The Signing Smart Intermediate Handbook is designed for families or caregivers who feel confident and comfortable signing with their children. It is for those families who seek to go to the "next level" to use signs as tools for conceptual development, for facilitating longer signed and/or spoken sentences, and to enhance learning. [Michelle Anthony, M.A., Ph.D. and Reyna Lindert, Ph.D.; (2002) 89 pages; soft cover; coil bound]
Some highlights from this handbook include: All new child-friendly signs (with sign descriptions and mnemonics, as well as adult and child photos of each sign). Information about language milestones (e.g., early sentences and early conversations in both signs and speech) and ways to use signs to support, encourage, and facilitate speaking. Ways to use signs to promote reading and to enhance storytelling. Suggestions for using signs to highlight and facilitate the understanding of various concepts. For example, signs are useful tools when teaching opposites (e.g., HOT vs. COLD with signs), when emphasizing conceptual groupings (e.g., signaling that an eagle is a kind of bird by signing BIRD while saying "eagle"), and when pointing out English synonyms (e.g., signing RABBIT when reading a book about a hare). Additional sign modification strategies to use with infants and toddlers accustomed to seeing signs. These strategies allow parents to create longer more sustained interactions, which further intimacy, communication, and learning.
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