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Visual ability is required to see the illustrations on the game boards and the words being signed or finger spelled.
The illustrations on the game cards along with the included DVD assist children in learning the proper hand movements of each sign.
The pictures on the game cards are simple and easy to understand.
The game can accommodate a large age range of players.
Six game options keep a child’s interest and allow for optimal individualized play.
The game boards each have a thick frame outline. This can help bring and maintain a child’s attention to the board.
This game assists with learning the fundamentals of American Sign Language. It can help children who do not have hearing impairments learn to communicate with a friend who is hearing impaired or deaf.
Skills
This game provides an opportunity to practice appropriate game etiquette – turn taking, patience, following rules and conduct.
This game works on memory and recall – what the picture on the card indicates, how to finger spell and sign each word.
Children practice sequencing steps to play a game. The sequence of steps is consistent throughout play, helping children with remembering the steps and recalling what to do.
Play Ideas
Sign a word to the child and have him sign it back to you, fingerspell the word and/or verbally state the word.
Adaptation Ideas
Use the included DVD to learn how to properly sign each word.
The illustrations on the game cards along with the included DVD assist children in learning the proper hand movements of each sign.
The pictures on the game cards are simple and easy to understand.
The game is relatively short from start to finish. Children with attention difficulties are more likely to finish the game and gain a sense of accomplishment and confidence.
This game assists with learning the fundamentals of American Sign Language. It can help children who do not have hearing impairments learn to communicate with a friend who is hearing impaired or deaf.
The game can accommodate a large age range of players.
Six game options keep a child’s interest and allow for optimal individualized play.
The game boards each have a thick frame outline. This can help bring and maintain a child’s attention to the board.
Sign language may be an effective form of communication for a child who has autism because it is a visual way of communicating rather than through speech. It provides a way for a child to express themselves and may reduce tantrums that are reached out of frustration. Note: Not all children with autism are assisted by sign language.
Skills
This game provides an opportunity to practice appropriate game etiquette – turn taking, patience, following rules and conduct.
This game works on memory and recall – what the picture on the card indicates, how to finger spell and sign each word.
Children practice sequencing steps to play a game. The sequence of steps is consistent throughout play, helping children with remembering the steps and recalling what to do.
The advanced matching activity of the game (matching a word with the illustration of the ASL sign) assists in visual attention and cognitive thought processes.
Play Ideas
Use the learned words as a springboard for extending verbal or sign language conversations about related topics. For example using the learned sign, “Pig” ask questions such as, “where does a pig live?” or “What do you think a pig likes to eat?”
Sign a word to the child and have him sign it back to you, fingerspell the word and/or verbally state the word.
Adaptation Ideas
Use the included DVD to learn how to properly sign each word.
The illustrations on the game cards along with the included DVD assist children in learning the proper hand movements of each sign.
The pictures on the game cards are simple and easy to understand.
The game is relatively short from start to finish. Children with attention difficulties are more likely to finish the game and gain a sense of accomplishment and confidence.
The game can accommodate a large age range of players.
Six game options keep a child’s interest and allow for optimal individualized play.
Skills
This game provides an opportunity to practice appropriate game etiquette – turn taking, patience, following rules and conduct.
This game works on memory and recall – what the picture on the card indicates, how to finger spell and sign each word.
Children practice sequencing steps to play a game. The sequence of steps is consistent throughout play, helping children with remembering the steps and recalling what to do.
The advanced matching activity of the game (matching a word with the illustration of the ASL sign) assists in visual attention and cognitive thought processes.
Play Ideas
Take one game board and the corresponding cards (either three or six cards, depending on the side of the game board being used). Have the child place the cards on the matching word of the game board. Check answers with the decoder lens.
Once a child has mastered the signs, have him sort the cards by category: feelings, food, people, colors, animals and actions.
Sign a word to the child and have him sign it back to you, fingerspell the word and/or verbally state the word.
Make cards with the picture of the word, such as “mother”, “blue”, and “juice”. Have the child match the pictures you created with the game cards.
Adaptation Ideas
Use the included DVD to learn how to properly sign each word.
Limit the number of cards presented to a child. Gradually increase the number as a child’s ability and frustration levels permit.
This game requires refined dexterity to be able to flip the cards, sign or finger spell the word and use the decoder lens.
Hand and finger movement is practiced while signing.
Most signs (39) require one hand/arm; however, 21 require two hands to complete. Signs requiring one hand can be done with the left or right hand. Signs that require two hands can use either left or right as the dominant hand. (The problem that may arise is the illustration on the card and the DVD action may be a mirror image of the child’s action as is the case of one side paralysis or left-hand dominance.)
The illustrations on the game cards along with the included DVD assist children in learning the proper hand movements of each sign.
The pictures on the game cards are simple and easy to understand.
Six game options keep a child’s interest and allow for optimal individualized play.
The game can accommodate a large age range of players.
Skills
This game provides an opportunity to practice appropriate game etiquette – turn taking, patience, following rules and conduct.
This game works on memory and recall – what the picture on the card indicates, how to finger spell and sign each word.
Children practice sequencing steps to play a game. The sequence of steps is consistent throughout play, helping children with remembering the steps and recalling what to do.
Play Ideas
This is a tabletop game. Play it while in different positions, such as in a stander, sitting in a feeder chair or kneeling at a table.
Adaptation Ideas
Add a strip of Velcro on each row on the game board and a small piece of Velcro on each card. This will help maintain a desired position, thus increase the success rate for play for a child who has involuntary movements, such as cerebral palsy.
Place the game boards on a non-skid material, such as non-skid shelf liner or Dicem, to help hold it in place for a child who has involuntary movements.
Use a card holder to help maintain the position for a child.
Use the included DVD to learn how to properly sign each word.
