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''Signing Time!'' is a television program targeted towards children aged one through eight that teaches American Sign Language. It is filmed in the United States and was created by Emilie Brown and Rachel de Azevedo Coleman, who hosts the series. Between the years 2006 and 2008, it was aired by American Public Television in many cities across the US. ''Signing Time!'' is produced and distributed by Two Little Hands Productions, which is located in Salt Lake City, Utah. ''Signing Time’s'' multi-sensory approach encourages learning through three senses — visual, auditory and kinesthetic — and reaches children with diverse learning styles and abilities by encouraging interaction through signing, singing, speaking and dancing. Throughout the series, Coleman, her daughter Leah, Leah's cousin Alex, and Hopkins, an animated frog, teach ASL vocabulary-building signs. The series teaches signs for common words, questions, phrases, movements, colors, sports, days of the week, everyday objects, and common activities.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Signing Time! Season Two )〕 Currently, ''Signing Time!'' interstitial music videos can be seen on Nick Jr. As of October 4, 2010, public television stations were allowed to show the series for the next two years. ==History and Conception== In 1996, Rachel Coleman had a daughter, whom she named Leah. When Leah was 14 months old, Coleman and her husband, Aaron, discovered that Leah had been deaf since she was born. Afterward, the couple began to teach Leah sign language, first with Signing Exact English (SEE),〔de Azevedo Coleman, Rachel. "Word Order." ''Signing Time! Volume 4: Family, Feelings, and Fun.'' 2004. DVD. Two Little Hands Productions, 2004.〕 then with American Sign Language (ASL), so that they could learn to communicate. Rachel noticed that within six months, Leah's sign language vocabulary far surpassed the vocabulary of hearing children her same age.〔de Azevedo Coleman, Rachel. ''A Sign of the Times.'' 2005. ''Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur's Soul: Advice & Inspiration for Fulfilling Dreams.'' By Jack Canfield, et al. Deerfield Beach, Florida: Health Communications, Inc., 2006. 167-169.〕 Rachel's sister Emilie Brown and her husband Derek had been teaching Leah's newborn cousin, Alex, how to sign, and he learned it quickly as well. A few years later, Rachel had a second daughter. Lucy was born 8 weeks premature, with spina bifida and cerebral palsy. Doctors worried that, due to her cerebral palsy, Lucy would never be able to speak or use sign language to communicate with her deaf sister, but after production of the first volume, Lucy began to sign, and later, to speak. Rachel then realized that signing could be beneficial to all children.〔Campbell, Carolyn. "Signs of Love." Ladies' Home Journal Aug. 2003: 58-60. Signing Time! Two Little Hands Productions, LLC. 22 Mar. 2008 Rachel and Emilie decided to create a visual video for hearing children so that ASL could be made accessible to all children, and together created Two Little Hands Productions, their production company. The project has turned into a massive success, spawning a successful television run and much merchandise. A foundation, Signing Time! Foundation, also exists. It is a foundation for children with and without disabilities whose mission is to make sign language available to all children and to "create programs and opportunities designed to dissolve the barriers that exist for children with disabilities." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Signing Time!」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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