Hello and welcome!
We are Suzanne and Tracy, co-founders of Singing Hands and we introduce you to the amazing world of signs through songs, rhymes, stories and games.
Babies have a natural tendency to use gesture (eg. clapping and waving bye-bye) and introducing some baby signs will build on these normal patterns of communication development.
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In our baby signing classes we show parents/carers a range of signs to help communicate with a young baby. We show you signs for MORE, ALL GONE and MILK to help your little one communicate his/her needs before their speech has developed.
To experience our unique and enthusiastic approach to learning language and having fun with music, find out more about our baby signing classes, toddler signing classes and school/nursery sessions.
Our new DVD is nearly ready!
We are delighted to announce that our Nursery Rhymes DVD It’s Signing Time will be available from our online shop very soon.
The DVD features a collection of songs taken from our classes and our CD/Books. You’ll see us down at the farm singing Baa Baa Black Sheep and Old MacDonald and showing you lots of animal and play signs.
Read the full article - Our new DVD is nearly ready!
Article by Dominic Lawson in the Review, Mail on Sunday
Every Tuesday we have the great pleasure to work at Great Ormond Street Hospital School running singing and signing sessions with the children, their families and staff. Each afternoon, we run an hour-long slot in the school itself for those children who are able to come down to the school. For any children who are unable to leave their room or ward, we grab our bags and visit them on the wards – often causing some hilarity amongst the nurses and doctors as we sing the Mmm mmm frog song wherever we can!
Read the full article - Article by Dominic Lawson in the Review, Mail on Sunday
Nursery World Magazine
We were delighted to be invited by Nursery World , a leading weekly publication for early years and childcare practitioners, to write an article about the signing and singing sessions that we run for our Local Education Authority. The article covers how we aim to promote inclusion of children with additional needs by signing with all children, plus news of our visit to the Education Centre for Children with Down Syndrome in Darlington.
Read the full article - Nursery World Magazine
Singing Hands and Something Special
In early 2005, we filmed a little segment for the ‘arched window’ on BBC Cbeebies Tikkabilla. In this slot, which was first shown in December 2005, we did a signed sing-a-long session (including our fave song ‘Mmm mmm frog’) with a group of children. It was a really inclusive session with our own kids plus other children from local schools and nurseries that we visit, some toddlers who had attended our baby signing classes and some friends from the Toy Library for Children with Special Needs.
We were therefore delighted to then be invited by the Producer of Something Special to contribute to this new series. You will see from the list below that five of the new episodes are focused specifically on showing you how to sign nursery rhymes and songs. These episodes feature a magical nursery rhyme world with a castle and a blue road for Justin to explore…....
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