“Sign Language and Emotional Development: How Sign Language can Help Children Express Themselves and Understand Emotions”

Over time, human interactions have demonstrated that words aren’t always enough to convey how one feels, and how one feels has a significant role to play in helping one to interact properly with others. Where words fail, ASL can come in. ASL goes where words can’t go. It shapes the process of emotional development, a … Read more

“Using Sign Language to Improve Social Interaction in Children”

Social interaction is a continuous human process that encompasses communication between people in or out of groups, and also between people and their surroundings. Language is at the heart of our everyday social interactions because the ability of language, whether spoken language or sign language (ASL), to give meaning to man and everything around him … Read more

“Sign Language and Storytelling: How to Use Sign Language to Enhance Your Child’s Love of Reading”

Is it possible to use ASL for storytelling? Yes. Can ASL-based storytelling improve your child’s love of reading as well? Yes. Storytelling is, in general, already a part of the art of sign language communication because when you encounter someone using ASL, you find yourself completely engrossed in what they are trying to let you … Read more