Play Sign press release

“BOYS AND GIRLS COME OUT TO PLAY, COME AND LEARN TO SIGN TODAY!”
Children attending Carousel Playgroup on Foundry Road in Stamford, Lincolnshire, have been learning to communicate in a totally different way…

…by “switching off” their voices and using their hands!!!.

Over the last six weeks the children have been visited by local Sign Language Tutor, Garry Slack, who has taught them all about the language used by many Deaf people, together with the signs for different topics such as “Animals”, “Colours” and “Numbers” including songs and nursery rhymes.

Each session has been great fun with the children asking lots of questions about sign language. Many of the children have even taken their newly acquired skill home and started teaching Mum and Dad how to sign!

The Staff at the Playgroup have eagerly joined in with each session and are able to practise the signs that they have learnt in their day to day work with the children.

Both the Tutor and the Staff were amazed at how quickly the children were able to learn the signs for this rich and fascinating language.

After the success of the recent Sign Language workshops for babies and their parents, Garry Slack, the tutor, is taking bookings for more sessions of baby and parent communication called “Happy Hands”.

The fun, informal workshops are aimed at teaching parents with babies aged from 6 to 12 months how to communicate using sign language.

Parents, (and children!), will learn how to communicate using signs, songs and nursery rhymes.

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