Product Description

Alex, Leah, their frog Hopkins, and host Rachel Coleman teach ASL signs for playground activities, vehicles, places to go and people to see in your neighborhood.

Created for ages 1-8, yet fun for all. Available only on DVD. Close-Captioned. Approximate run time: 30 minutes, plus special features.

My Neighborhood includes the following original songs, written by Rachel Coleman: Signing Time Theme, Down at the Park, Watch Me Go, My Job, In My Neighborhood, Every Day

Special Features
Sign Review Alternate Ending Safety Signs People In The Neighborhood More Neighborhood Signs Mail Signs - FAQ: Rachel s Color-Coded Fingers - An Interview With Alex Baby Signing Time Preview: "Diaper Dance".

ASL Signs
ASL signs taught in this DVD:

Playground - Roller Skates - Picnic - Kite - Swing - Slide - Climb - Sand - Helicopter - Bus - Boat - Motorcycle - Slow - Fast - Store - Buy - Stamp - Mail - Library - Story - Office - Work - Restaurant - Firefighter - Police Officer - Doctor - Nurse.

And if you pay close attention, you ll also see and learn these additional signs:

Time - Teach - Come - Sign - Sing - Dance - Laugh - Play - Where - Friend - Meet - Find - Not - Different - Share - Love - Day - Now - Favorite - Spot - Go - Do - Much - See - City - School - Watch - Need - Mailbox - Can - Good/Behave - Read - Book - Hard - Visit - Eat - People - Same - Family - Careful - Safe - Help - Hurt - Every Day - Special - Diaper - Potty.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41143 in DVD
• Published on: 2006
• Released on: 2006-04-03
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Surround Sound
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00" h x 4.00" w x 4.00" l, .19 pounds
• Running time: 30 minutes

Features

• Signs for My Neighborhood includes Playground, Slide, Swing, Library, Store, Restaurant, Bus, Firefighter, Police Officer, Doctor, Nurse and many more

Customer Reviews

Entertaining and Educational
As the mother of twins, one hearing and one deaf, I have had the opportunity to check out many programs for teaching ASL to small children. This is by far the best series out there. Most other products are so boring that parents must struggle to stay awake during the production, and there is no way a toddler would tolerate a viewing. My 2-year-old twins request Signing Time all of the time. At home they want the DVDs playing almost constantly. In the car my hearing daughter starts asking for the Signing Time CD before I even have her strapped into her carseat. My 2-year-old deaf daughter is using 5-sign sentences, which is almost unheard of for the deaf child of hearing parents. My extended family owns a total of 6 sets of Signing Time. Whenever my daughters' cousins have a birthday they ask for the latest Signing Time DVDs. Children of all ages love this product.

We love Signing Time
Our school is currently using Signing Time in an after school program to introduce and teach American Sign Language to children ranging in grades K-6. Rachel does a good job of desribing and demonstating the signs. The music and songs create an enjoyable way to reinforce the new signs learned.

Waste of money
I must be crazy considering the other reviews, but I found this a total waste of money. We bought six of the DVD's and used three and only couple of times. Both my son and I find it boring. Yes, it is educational, but other than use of bright colors, I don't find it entertaining. I could not keep my son in front of the TV when I turned this on. To my opinion, even though this is separated into themes, you just get for the most part random words, makes you want to buy all of the DVD's. We ended up finding a free signing dictionary online and always looked up a word we needed and then tought our son. That worked great for us, his signing vocabulary was growing very fast. He could sign about 50 words after 2 months of learning. He was 15 months when we started. He is a two year old now and speaks very well, we don't sign as much anymore, but still find it handy. I just don't find these DVDs helpful very much, considering the price.