Sunny Spies Things Small – key word sign children’s book – small theme

Description

Sunny is out with his magnifying glass today, what can the spot hidden in the garden?

 

The book contains a small themed story on one side and an associated key word sign on the other.

 

he book also contains a QR code that takes you to a video tutorial of the book being read and signed with all the key word signs.

 

Children’s books are a great way to include key word sign into your day and encourages you to use sign while reading the text, to expose your child to more sign and aiding their comprehension of the word.

 

Recent research (published December 2022) found that:

 

“during shared book reading between parents and young children with Down syndrome, positively affects the communicative interaction that occurs between parents and their children. Children signed more and became more active participants and through repetition, parents increased the dosage of word/sign pairings. Each of these factors have been shown to facilitate growth in children’s language abilities”

 

Frizelle, Pauline, et al. “Embedding key word sign prompts in a shared book reading activity: The impact on communication between children with Down syndrome and their parents.” International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders(2022).

 

Key Word Sign is an alternative and augmentative communication tool that uses Auslan (Australian Sign Language) alongside speech to encourage pre-speaking or non-speaking children an alternative way to communicate while encouraging speech through the communication partners verbalising of the words while signing.

All our books are designed, printed and made within Australia.

 

You may be able to use NDIS funding to purchase this product.