Rachel Coleman, Emmy Nominated Star of Signing Time, to Perform Benefit Concert in Roseville, California on Saturday, August 25, 2012.
Thousands of families in the greater Sacramento area have been touched by Signing Time, the hit PBS show that introduced American Sign Language to children across the Nation. Now, for the second year in a row, these families will be able to come and see Rachel Coleman perform, live in Roseville, CA. During her stay in the Sacramento area, Coleman will also be providing a Signing Story Time and/or keynote speech for a sponsoring organization to be announced.
The Signing Time Foundation community concerts are some of the only fully-inclusive events for children with special needs available anywhere. These concerts are created in a way that children of every ability can participate fully and enjoy the experience. Children with Autism, Down syndrome, speech delays or verbal apraxia, deafness or hard of hearing, children with physical disabilities that require the use of walkers, crutches, braces, or wheelchairs, as well as typical children, will find a place “where friends can meet and find we’re not so different after all”. The event will be interpreted in American Sign Language for our Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing patrons.
Coleman, who co-created Signing Time as a means to teach children of all abilities how to communicate using American Sign Language (ASL), has seen firsthand the miracles that can come from using sign language. As the mother of a daughter who is deaf, and another daughter who has cerebral palsy and spina bifida, Coleman has spent the last 10 years making sign language fun and accessible for all children through the Signing Time series. Whether used by a pre-verbal infant, a non-verbal child with disabilities, or a family who simply wants to learn American Sign Language as a second language, Signing Time reaches children with diverse learning styles and encourages interaction through signing, singing, speaking and moving. While most people regard sign language as something only for the Deaf community, thousands of parents are seeing that all children can accelerate their language and reading development through the unique blend of sign language, written word, song and video modeling used in Signing Time.
Christie O’Neill of Signing For Everyone, Master Signing Time Academy Instructor, 2011 STA Instructor of the Year and RID Certified Sign Language Interpreter is proud to coordinate The Signing Time Foundation Community Event on Saturday, August 25, 2012. It will be held at 12:30 p.m. at Valley Springs Presbyterian Church at 2401 Olympus Drive in Roseville. This event can only be made possible through ticket sales, company sponsors and individual donations from the community, all of which will benefit the Signing Time Foundation (a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization) and are tax-deductible. For more information, to make a donation, or purchase tickets at www.signingforeveryone.com/concert.html. If you have any question, please feel free to contact Christie O’Neill at (530) 333-3731 or email coneill@signingtimeacademy.com.
About the Signing Time Foundation:
Signing Time was developed based on her personal experiences. Rachel has seen firsthand the benefits of signing with ALL children, not only for children who are deaf and hard of hearing, and is committed to making ASL easily accessible to all families through the Signing Time series. The Signing Time Foundation (a 501 (c)(3) non-profit) is dedicated to making sign language fun and accessible to all children, creating a world in which all children can express themselves and be understood. For more information, please visit http://www.signingtimefoundation.org/.
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