Teach Play Classes & Parent Workshops - Baby Signs Program

Would you like to teach parent workshops, play classes, early childhood educator training and more to parents, teachers, and medical professionals?

We offer several programs for people that love working with parents and babies.

• Independent Certified Instructor (ICI) program for individuals



• Agency Certified Instructor (ACI) program for individuals who work for children's health, educational or family service agencies/organizations.

Both programs certify instructors to teach:

• Parent Workshops

This 90-minute class provides parents with an overview of the Baby Signs Program including the many benefits of signing, basic "How Tos" for teaching babies to sign, and many of the most useful signs through games, songs, and entertaining activities.


• Infant/Toddler Play Classes

A series of six theme-based classes generally offered over a 6-week period, with 45-minute sessions designed for parents and babies to attend together


• Early Childhood Educator Training (offer Continuing Education Units)

The goal of this program is to help child care programs of any size-big or small-begin enjoying the benefits that come from incorporating signing into daily interactions between children and teachers. Instructors can now offer Continuing Education Units!


• Other enrichment classes for parents and children from birth to age 5
  New classes that cover topics and ages well beyond the focus of our traditional signing format. The new program, called On the Grow, offers fun and exciting classes for parents and children (birth to age 5) to enjoy together.
  

Our Teachers
Baby Signs® instructors have a wide range of backgrounds. They represent teachers, speech-language pathologists, parents, social workers, therapists, interpreters, child development professionals and many other professions. Many instructors are teaching at community hospitals, state programs, parenting programs, child development centers, community centers and other children’s health and education organizations, including CDCs on US military bases around the world.

We provide training - in both infant sign language, early childhood development and a certification to teach the Baby Signs® Program. Instructors also receive on-going support to start and grow a thriving program in their community.
Both programs are self-paced, distance learning training programs, consisting of both written and video materials. They include ready-to-teach curricula, business administration documents, marketing tools and resources, training DVDs and CDs and much more.

For an information packet and application please contact Michelle by replying to this ad or call 1-800-995-0226 ext 102.

Instructors needed throughout the state

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Company Information
The Baby Signs® Program is a simple and fun program using sign language to communicate with hearing babies and toddlers before they can talk. Through two decades of academic research, including a long-term study funded by the National Institutes of Health, we know with certainty that the Baby Signs® Program yields the following exciting benefits for babies and their families:

• Jumpstarts verbal language development
• Promotes early literacy
• Boosts intellectual achievement as measured by IQ at age 8--a full 12 points
• Decreases frustration and aggression at home and in the classroom
• Increases adults' respect for babies' abilities
• Strengthens the adult-infant relationship
• Fosters positive emotional development IQ.

Baby Signs®, the ORIGINAL sign language program for hearing babies, has been bringing powerful, research-proven benefits to babies and their families around the world for over 25 years. The Baby Signs® Program is the world's leading sign language program for babies because it's the only program:

• created by child development experts specifically for babies.
• whose benefits have been proven through scientific research funded by the National Institutes of Health
• based on American Sign Language but flexible to fit the needs of all families.
• with a full range of classes and products for parents, babies, and child development centers.

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