I have a surprise for you.
It's probably no surprise since you read the title and clicked on the video to
play it. But let's pretend we're surprise act, surprised. Ready?
Let's practice our surprise face. If you're a signer,
you know what a surprise face looks like, huh?
Okay. Practice it. I'm sure you could do it better than that.
What I just did so surprise me. So here we go. You ready?
Um,
that's right. Do you, do you recognize this name? Do you do,
you
wrote this book.
It's a pretty exciting, very exciting.
And today is launch day.
So if you did not preorder this bad boy,
that's okay. You can get it today. And if you get it through Amazon prime, boom,
boom, boom, boom.
Like two days later it's on your porch and in your hands
and blessing your life, making your life amazing.
And if you did preorder it, it's on its way to you right now.
Any second now, it should be going and landing in your little mitts,
ready to use and sign. Use it and sign.
So today to celebrate this very special occasion. Hey,
and if you haven't gotten it, it's okay. No big deal. Uh,
there's a link in the description and you can just go click, click, click,
click and check it out.
But I'm going to give you a sneak peek that you won't get on in the look inside
and Amazon or Barnes and noble.
So if you want to know what's inside before you purchase,
here's your chance. First up,
this is American sign language for kids. So what does that mean?
It means it is for kids,
but more specifically it's for parents, grandparents and uncles,
caregivers of children that need sign language.
Now that could be a lot of things. Somebody that could be deaf,
kid can be deaf, it can be hard of hearing, um,
could have some kind of hearing loss. Um, just not verbal,
um, um, autistic.
A variety of situations that make it important for your child to learn and use
sign language. You can't just have your children learn sign language.
The parents and the caregivers actually have to learn it too or else is
pointless, right? Is for parents to teach and use with their children.
Now I have six children of my own,
ranging from ages three to 13 now three and five year old.
I have to teach, I have to learn why I know the signs already,
but so I have to teach them the signs to them and I can let them look at the P.
I let them look at the pictures and they really liked the pictures. Um,
but I have to help them do this. They can't sit in,
use this book by themselves. Now my, well she just turned eight,
but my eight year old on up to my 13 year old,
they can sit down and use this book on their own. And I would say my,
my daughter, she just turned eight on Sunday. Um,
but I would say even last year, she's in second grade right now.
So even last year, first grade she would have been, um,
and even a little bit of her last end of her kindergarten year,
she had been able to use most of this on her own. At least look at the signs.
Um,
but it is important for the caregivers to learn this and teach the children or
learn it alongside with their children,
especially if it's a vital communication asset in their home.
Now,
I used to go into homes and teach families of children with variety of reasons
for wanting to learn sign language.
Of course I taught deaf and hard of hearing families. Um,
but I also taught quite a bit of children with autism and down syndrome.
And the, um,
the incredible amount of impact did it have in each of their lives was um,
truly life changing for them.
So if you or someone you know has a child, um,
that is autistic, has down syndrome or any other,
any other thing that has going on in their lives that makes it so that they're
not verbal and language, please teach them sign language.
You can obviously share this book with them,
but above all introduced the concept of sign language to them first.
Okay. So that covers well who this book is for now, how do you use it?
Um, we do, hold on mate, my cheater copy here. Um,
I have it marked so I know what to show you so I don't have to like find it. Oh,
I'm making this video here.
So in the book I do go over a little bit more about who this book is for in,
in greater depth. And we talk about how to use the book. Um,
it is important for you to, um, learn alongside your child.
Now what I love about this book is the table of contents.
Now the focus broken down into different chapters with different categories of
signs you can learn,
but even better so you can look to the table of contents and you can see, okay,
this is the category it is and it's color coded. So you can see this is green,
chapter four is green.
And you can flip in here and you can see on the side of the book it's color
coded. So I can flip to this green one. And I've gone straight to that chapter.
So I, I love color coding. You should see my spreadsheets,
color coding everywhere. Um,
and what's even better is you can get a breakdown of the individual signs that
are taught. So you'd be like, I don't want to look through the whole chapter.
I'm looking for just one sign right now. You want to use every moment you can,
um, as a teachable moment, especially if you're learning silent, which I mean,
I'm not saying you have to like run around with the book all day long and wait
for that moment to happen. But what is perfect moment comes up.
You want to be ready. So I love this because you can turn straight to that page,
take straight to the table cottons for like, Oh my gosh, they're just dying.
They love these crackers. Let me find out how to assign Cracker.
And so we can just do this now rather than, no, no,
we're gonna wait until it's time to introduce it. Let's do it now.
And then you don't have to search through every page of the book or look through
each category. You can just go straight to the page. I love it.
Super convenient. Um, like I did say already,
the color coding is quite lovely. Okay.
Now the next little bit, and we've talked about who it's for,
take that one off. Um,
I talk a lot about why it's so important to learn sign language and why it's so
important for you to learn sign language together as a family and that it can be
fun and if you have concerns or you're worried or you're not sure what to do,
we go over that. I will not, we,
I go over that in this book because it's super important. Okay.
We even talk about, um,
deaf community etiquette and how to interact in the deaf community because once
you know, sign language,
you're gonna want to have your child and your full family around other people
that signed. Um,
and what better way than to do that in the deaf community where they're so
loving and accepting and welcoming and um, they'll find you,
you guys will all be able to make new friends that you can sign with and learn
and grow even more within the deaf community.
So definitely check that out so you can get in there and feel comfortable and
um, make sure that you're, um, treating, um, in,
in countering those situations correctly the best way you can for the maximum
success. Okay, so another thing that is in this book,
so each of these signs, so is that just like a dictionary where you're like, Oh,
I'm going to learn the sign and then move on.
It's that you learned the sign and then there's some tips that go along with it.
And I love the tips. Okay. Um, so first off,
so you can see here we've got the home and yes,
and this is in the chapter of the first 10 signs for you to learn. Um,
I believe that's what the chapter is. Yeah, it is. Okay.
I remember.
And so each sign has the picture showing you how to do it.
And then for added clarity and instruction underneath each sign,
it talks about how to do the signed correctly.
I'm including any facial expressions that you need to do or anything that you
need to be aware of. Now,
each sign has a memory tip to help you be to remember the sign,
connect it with something. So for instance, the sign, yes,
the memory tip is it's as if you're nodding your head up and down because the
sign, this is the sign. Yes.
So it's as if your head was your hand and it's nodding up and down cause you nod
your head. Yes. Right. Okay. And so then there is,
so there are a variety of tips that you're going to find throughout the book.
They're not all going to be the same type of tips or similar signs.
There's grammar tips, there's a signing tip and there are tips, um,
ASD tips. Um,
the next thing is in each chapter at the end of each chapter,
let me take off this little sticky. Um, there is sign, practice activities.
So there's different things you can do and in, throughout the tips are also,
Hey, here's a fun activity that you can use to introduce this sign.
Um, as well as how to practice, um, the S, uh, group of the signs.
You've just learned how to put it into action in real life.
So you can use it because you can't just see once and be done.
You have to repeat it. And if you put an activity with it,
it's going to make it more concrete and usable for your child.
But your child is gonna learn the science so fast.
It's gonna blow your mind. Um, especially if,
um, they're deaf and hard of hearing. Um,
and I do encourage you also if you have hearing children and you have,
so if you have a child that is nonverbal for whatever reason,
and you have other hearing children in your family, please,
please teach everybody in your family, mom,
dad, brothers and sisters. So,
and the last one I wanted to point out is at the end we have resources.
So if you want to learn more about sign language, more about the deaf community,
I have linked, um, resources,
books and websites that you can use to give you further education to help you
connect with those in the deaf community around you and other local deaf
educators. Um, there's other apps, um,
books and DVDs and websites. And then at the end I have, um,
the resources for all the books that I have mentioned in all the different
practice activities. So you can just find them there quickly at the end.
So that's a wrap for the American sign language for kids walk through.
Um,
I hope you enjoyed it and you can get your own copy down by clicking the link
down in the description box below.
Thank you so much for watching and I hope you love this book if you love it,
and if you liked it and it's helped and you found it useful and effective for
you, I love, love, love.
If you would leave a review on Amazon for me is,
that is awesome and I love to see your feedback. Thanks.
Have a great day and get signing.
Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you in the next video
because that's at the end of the day, that's why we're here.
So make sure you're signing every day. No, that's not really ridiculous. Okay.