Head Start and Early Head Start

Early Childhood Sign Language

Early Childhood Sign Language -

Welcome Early Childhood Educators for Head Start / Early Head Start use our program to:

  • Improve CLASS TM Scores
  • Enhances and Promotes School Readiness
  • Use for teaching young children social emotional learning
  • Enhances and Promotes Learning in our Migrant Education Programs
  • Bilingual / Our program is in English/Spanish/ASL

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Time to Sign ASL for Early Childhood for Head Start and Early Head Start Programs provides sign language professional training for childcare providers, teachers and parents of young children, birth to five. We know that the first five years of a child’s life are the most significant when it comes to his/her ability to communicate effectively. That is why Time to Sign is dedicated to supporting effective and meaningful communication for all by teaching American Sign Language (ASL) in a fun and educational way.

Services Include - Live In-Person, Live Online Trainings, or Pre-Recorded Webinars:

  • Conference Speaker(s) 
  • In-service and Pre-service Trainings (Half Day, Full Day, Multiple Day)
  • Train the Trainer
  • On-site Trainings or Virtual Webinars
  • Parent / Family Programs
  • In-class Role Modeling, Coaching, and Mentoring
  • ASL for Early Childhood 
  • Social and Emotional Academic Learning
  • Understanding and Motivating Young Children: Brain Usage & Development and Communication Patterns

Topics Include:

  • Early Childhood Sign Language - Signing Fundamentals for Early Communication, Language and Literacy
  • Emotional Support
    • Positive Behavior Intervention and Support (PBIS)
    • Let’s Communicate – Sign Language to Promote a Positive and Healthy Social Environment
  • Time to Sign for the Early Childhood Classroom - Time to Sign Enhances Classroom Learning and Behavior 
    • Ready, Set, Sign! – Sign Language for Classroom/Behavioral Management and Smooth Transitions
    • Back to the Basics – Create an organized Inclusive Environment
    • Positive Behavior Intervention and Support (PBIS)
    • SOAR to Change Behavior (Solutions Outcome Based Actions and Resources)
  • ASL for the Classroom - Instructional Support
    • Sign to Read – Literacy, Phonics, and Story Telling the Fun Way!
    • Birth to Five – Sign Language for Teachers and Parents of Children Birth to Five
    • Parent Involvement
  • ASL for Early Childhood Resources - Time to Sign provides outstanding Early Childhood ASL Resources  - visit our website store at:  https://www.timetosign.com/products/category-17.html
  • ASL for Early Childhood Trainings - Time to Sign Provides Outstanding Early Childhood Educators Trainings:
  • ASL for Early Childhood Social Emotional Learning - Time to Sign Enhances Early Childhood Social Emotional Learning with training and resources - 
    • Teaching Social Emotional Learning to Young Children
    • Positive Preventive Skill Building Activities for Young Children
    • 100 Easy Ways to Promote Social Emotional Learning in Young Children
    • ASL to Enhance Social Emotional Learning of Young Children
  • ASL for Parents of Young Children - Time to Sign Provides ASL Resources and Training for the Home Environment
    • Knowledge of Family Wellness, Health, and Safety
    • Positive Nurturing Relationships Techniques that Support Child Learning, Behavior, and Social Emotional Development
    • How to Support Everyday Learning of Children in Their Homes, in the Program, and in Their Communities
    • Life Long Learning for Children and Their Parents
    • Enhancing Family, Peer, and Community Connections
    • How to Use a Picture Schedule for the Home Environment
    • Communication Languages for Your Child
    • Age Appropriate Developmental Milestones
    • Age Appropriate Signs and Activities
    • Understanding Our Four Brains and Their Development
    • The Importance of Learning through Play, via the Use of Songs, Games, and Stories
    • Picture Scheduling of Activities
    • Early Childhood Communication and Literacy Skills
    • And Much Much More! Click for the Families + Engagement + Workshop Flyer

Materials and Services can be Provided in Spanish / English / Sign.

Call (321) 726-9466 or Email Contact@TimeToSign.com for Details.

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Time to Sign Programs for Early Childhood Development & Learning

 How does Time to Sign’s improve CLASS scores:

Time to Sign’s extensive training promotes Emotional Support through its Social – Emotional Program (indeed this is Dr. Michael S. Hubler’s area of expertise in which he obtained his Education Doctorate) creating a climate in which children can express their emotions positively and learn to solve many of their own peer interaction issues.

Time to sign’s program enhances Cognitive (see benefits at end of document) and Language Development (pre-literacy and literacy skills, and concept understanding and communication).

Time to Sign’s Classroom and Behavior Management program provides teachers with strategies, techniques and resources to enhance Classroom Organization to improve children's behavior and time and attention in the classroom.

All of Time to Sign’s programs (Social – Emotional learning, Signing Fundamentals, and Classroom and Behavior management) all work together provide teacher’s with a plethora of Instructional Support that enhances young children’s thinking, problem solving and conversational skills, and vocabulary.

The Time to Sign SCORE daily Lesson Planning Guides help teachers implement standard Head Start curriculum and provide activities with outcomes and indicators for each early childhood area of learning.

 

About Time to Sign’s Programs

Early Childhood Sign Language focusing on Birth – Five Years

This presentation will discuss using American Sign Language in the classroom with a focus on promoting a positive educational environment where children can communicate, socialize, and learn effectively. Participants will learn basic communication signs and classroom phrases from birth to five years. The purpose of this workshop is to teach participants how to use sign language daily to compliment learning and enhance young children’s behavior through the use of mnemonics, songs, games, activities, and stories. Attendees will also learn about the benefits of sign language for all children, how to incorporate sign language into their daily routine, as well as strategies and signs for augmenting learning through the visual support of words.

 

ASL for Early Childhood Social and Emotional Learning

This workshop will instruct educators on basic signs for pre-literacy concept understanding and social and emotional development. Participants will learn about children’s social-emotional development, communication languages, establishing routines, picture schedules, visual classroom rules, and how to use music, games that provide a powerful foundation to enhance children’s learning readiness, and pre-literacy concepts. This sign language workshop will teach teachers and specialist methods and practices to enhance their capacity to guide their children in a socially and emotionally journey through a positive, preventative, and effective instructional approach. During this workshop participants also learn to use sign language and other techniques to bring young children out of their emotional brain into their logical brain to enhance self-control, peer relations, and behavior. 

 

ASL for the Early Childhood Classroom - SOAR to Change: Sign Language for Classroom & Behavior Management

This segment of the training will instruct educators on basic signs for classroom and behavior management; as well as pre-literacy concept understanding and social and emotional development. Participants will learn common sign phrases for use in controlling the classroom quietly, teaching children self-regulation, and about children’s communication languages, establishing routines, picture schedules, visual classroom rules, and how to use music, games that provide a powerful foundation to enhance children’s learning readiness, and pre-literacy concepts. This sign language workshop will teach teachers and specialist methods and practices to enhance their capacity to enhance behavior and provide teachers with necessary classroom management techniques in sign. During this workshop participants also learn to use sign language and other techniques to bring young children out of their emotional brain into their logical brain to enhance self-control, peer relations, and behavior. 

Understanding & Motivating Young Children

This portion of the program will cover children’s ‘Four Brains’ and ‘Communication Languages’. After which this segment will teach participants how to utilize this information to motivate and take advantage of each child’s unique set of personal traits/gifts.

 

ASL for Families of Young Children - Parent Engagement Program

The purpose of this workshop is to teach parents how to use sign language as a daily compliment to learning and to improve young children’s communication skills through the use of songs, games, activities, stories. 

This presentation will discuss using American Sign Language in the classroom with a focus on enhancing language development, concept understanding, and pre-literacy and literacy skills.  Participants will learn basic communication signs for children ages birth to five years. Enhancing communication reduces parent and child frustration and strengthens the parent-child bond.

Parents will learn how they can add sign language to early childhood in-home learning to enhance concept learning and recall providing a significant boost to young children learning pre-literacy and literacy skills.

Parents will also learn about the benefits of sign language for all children, how to incorporate sign language into their daily routine, as well as strategies; and signs for augmenting learning through the visual support of words, colors and animals.

Participants will learn over 75 basic signs to use with stories such as Brown Bear, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Goodnight Moon to enhance their classroom storytelling

Participants will receive:  ABC to Animals Poster, Farm Animals Cards, Emotion Cards, and Handout with Activities to Enhance Language, Songs, and Signs to Use with Stories. 

 

 

Benefits of Signing with Children:   What the Research Says?

Sign language is a 2-sided brain activity that increases brain functioning. It utilizes the right brain for visual learning/recognition, the left side of the brain for cognitive second language usage/storage, it also creates additional connections or synapses in the brain, which in turn creates higher IQ levels in children. It enhances fine motor coordination. It is a visual activity, as 80% of signs are pictorial representations of the represented concept, therefore it is easier for children to learn than the spoken word. It also raises communication awareness and abilities as when signing you have to be looking directly at the person with whom you are speaking. Sign enhances children’s vocabulary, concept understanding, pre-literacy and reading skills. Babies can communicate their pre-verbal wants and needs and be understood, which reduces frustrations and enriches the bond between for caregivers, parents, and children.  Sign can also be used reinforce the instruction of the positive expression of emotions, self-regulation, and in the development of social skills. With hyperactive children (ADD, ADHD) sign has been shown to better enable children to self-control, which is the number one skill determining success or failure in life (your superpower).


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