Signs & Wonders

Starring:Stellan SkarsgÃ¥rd, Charlotte Rampling, Deborah Kara Unger, Dimitri Katalifos, Ashley Remy, Dave Simonds, Arto Apartian, Alexandros Mylonas, Dimitris Kaberidis, Themis Bazaka, Steven Goldstein, Peggy Gennatiempo, Steven Edward Zate, Michael Cook (IV)
Director: Jonathan Nossiter
Studio: Strand Releasing
Product Type: DVD

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Baby Einstein - My First Signs
wonderful!
Great for 18 mo. old boy
My First Signs, Just Terrific
My first signs

Baby Einstein - My First Signs
Starring: Marlee Matlin
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
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ASIN: B000LSAIZI
Release Date: 2007-03-13

Product Description

As babies grow, their eye-hand coordination begins to improve as their ability to interact with their surroundings blossoms. It is the perfect time for My First Signs, A playful introduction to 20 common words and phrases from baby's world - including mommy, daddy and I love you - both spoken and in sign language. Join special guest Marlee Matlin as she demonstrates this exciting way for babies to express themselves even before they have mastered verbal communication.Featuring delightful puppet shows, real world images and beautiful classical music, this captivating program presents fun ways for you and your baby to interact on a whole new level!Age: 6 months +

Customer Reviews:

Baby Einstein - My First Signs.......2007-06-28

It is impressive how my son, now 15 months, gets completely absorbed with all the Baby Einstein products my wife and I have previously purchased (My First Moves, Neighborhood Animals, Baby Beethoven, Baby Mozart). With this one, though (which by the way said was precisely for children in that age range), his attention was only captured for the first 5 minutes. Analyzing it from a non-target customer standpoint, I think it is not in the same category as the other ones I've seen, quality wise. Maybe my expectations were too high but I can honestly say I was a little disappointed with this product. Maybe someone can recommend other BE products that are as good as the others. Thanks.

wonderful!.......2007-06-22

My 6 month old loves to watch this video. He hasn't started using any signs yet, but i believe it is never too early to start learning. He sits in his high chair and will watch the whole video. The video is designed well to teach vocabulary and signing, and there is great, peaceful music throughout. I hope Baby Einstein comes out with a new signing video soon so we can use it to learn more signs.

Great for 18 mo. old boy.......2007-06-03

We had every single Baby Einstein video except for this one and Baby Wordsworth. I ordered both of them and they keep my son (18mo) occupied for the whole entire video. He needs "new" videos every 3 months or so. I hope they create more videos for 18-24mo.

My First Signs, Just Terrific.......2007-06-03

Baby Einstein is a wonderful new line of videos to help aid in your child's development. Get them off to a very good start with these videos, and this special one, My First Signs. Get them well on the way to a successful future now! Don't wait!

My first signs.......2007-05-31

I have 3grandkids 8months to 2 yrs. The oldest was taught this at daycare. They started her at 6 mos. old,when we saw her 3 mo later she was going like crazy! Just wish the would have told us old folks,we could't understand & she was not happy. We now have both the other kids,and grandma & granpa are learning it to. I wish they had this back when we raised our boys. It's the closest thing to instructions for kids you'll ever find. Will be getting them all to passaround.

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Are you the type who sees signs?
An excellent film from theSci-Fi genre
A wonderful surprise ending.
Huh?
birthing tales while the aliens circle

Signs (Vista Series)
Starring: Abigail Breslin , Rory Culkin , Clifford David , Lanny Flaherty , and Mel Gibson
Manufacturer: Touchstone Pictures
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ASIN: B00005JL3T
Release Date: 2003-01-07

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This B movie with noble aspirations is the work of a gifted filmmaker whose storytelling falls short of his considerable stylistic flair. While addressing crises of faith in the framework of an alien-invasion thriller, M. Night Shyamalan (in his follow-up to The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable) favors atmospheric tension over explanatory plotting. He injects subtle humor into expertly spooky scenes, but the story suffers from too many lapses in logic. The film's faults are greatly compensated by the performance of Mel Gibson as a widower whose own crisis of faith coincides with the appearance of mysterious crop circles in his Pennsylvania cornfield... and hundreds of UFOs around the globe. With his brother (Joaquin Phoenix) and two young children (Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin), the lapsed minister perceives this phenomenal occurrence as a series of signs and portents, while Shyamalan pursues a spookfest with War of the Worlds overtones. It's effective to a point, but vaguely hollow at its core. --Jeff Shannon

Description

From M. Night Shyamalan, the writer/director of THE SIXTH SENSE and UNBREAKABLE, comes the story of the Hess family in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, who wake up one morning to find a 500-foot crop circle in their backyard. Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) and his family are told extraterrestrials are responsible for the sign in their field. They watch, with growing dread, the news of crop circles being found all over the world. SIGNS is the emotional story of one family on one farm as they encounter the terrifying last moments of life as the world is being invaded. "It's easy for a filmmaker to blow up the world -- but what Shyamalan does is much riskier. He tries to blow our minds. I was engaged by every inch of SIGNS." - Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper.

Customer Reviews:

Are you the type who sees signs?.......2007-06-18

Signs has much more to offer than Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds." In this reality, the world is populated with numerous signs seemingly hidden in plain sight.

Director M. Night Shyamalan divides people into two camps: The type who believes in miracles, sees signs; and those who think we just get lucky.

Shyamalan's carefully crafted universe has creatures that must resort to warring with other planets to survive... and there is us. Shyamalan's war pits technologically superior creatures against an unsuspecting world, and a shattered world occupied by a clergyman who questions his faith following the death of his wife. Shyamalan goes further than the Sixth Sense, the bone-chilling tale of a young boy ("I see dead people") haunted by ghosts who appear regularly in his life to enlist his help. In Signs, Shyamalan declares not only can we help the dead, the dead also help us.

Another way of putting it: There are no coincidences. From the son's asthma and the daughter's dreams to the brother's baseball prowess and the tragic instance in which a veterinarian's momentary lapse at the wheel claims a life. The plot is a masterpiece in misdirection. Signs opens to an aerial view of crop circles. More signs of the impending invasion appear as the story moves forward. But these are not the signs that we should be looking at. In the last reel, the dying wife who has but a moment to tell seems to be rambling. But it turns out, she was staring into the future, not her husband's eyes.

This movie says we are much more than we seem.

Mel Gibson's character, the grieving Rev. Graham Hess finds himself suddenly struggling to make sense of the many odd happenings at his farm. He already has isolated himself following his wife's death. Of course, his guard is up. But he finds himself awkwardly grasping to cling to his understanding of the new reality. He can dismiss the crop circles in his fields as mischief by pranksters. But, he soon can't deny the mounting evidence and nocturnal visits from unseen and unseeable intruders. Edgy, provocative and well-paced, Signs is a multilayered and intricately woven piece to try and digest in an afternoon at the theater.

I was first struck by Shyamalan's study of how his characters cope with the increasingly apparent threat. The no-nonsense son Morgan immediately seeks out a book and a curious and chilling element to this story, a baby monitor. The brother Merrill who has taken a room over the garage to help the family turns to the TV. The youngest, the girl who must be about kindergarten age, believes she is dreaming. It is the father, Graham, who is not coping well living in denial. But who can blame him?

"There is no one out there to help us. We're all alone," our resigned and frockless clergyman declares.

The final scenes are well-constructed to induce fear. Shyamalan masterfully pulls all the pieces together at the end. If you were impressed by Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, you will enjoy this offering... again and again.

An excellent film from theSci-Fi genre.......2007-06-13

This is one of those films that my wife dragged me kicking and screaming to see in the theater, but as has often been the case over our thirty-six year marriage, it turned out to be one that I would end up adding to my collection.

Normally, Science-Fiction films either bore me greatly, or scare me out of my wits, but this story is quite different. Not only is this a well-made, tense and exciting story of an attempted alien invasion of Earth, but it is also a very touching and actually inspirational story. Mel Gibson plays a former minister who totally lost his faith as the result of his wife's tragic death, but eventually finds it once again as a result of an exciting encounter with aliens. Beginning with the appearance of "crop circles" in his corn field, then in other locales around the world, followed soon by other strange "signs," Gibson finds himself trapped by the aliens in his home, with his two small children and his younger brother, played well by Joaquin Phoenix.

If you have not seen the film, do so. If you have not added it to your collection, do so. The climax alone is worth the purchase price, and it is surely a film you can watch with your children.

A wonderful surprise ending........2007-06-08

I just love this movie. I am a big M Night Shyamalan fan as well as a big Mel Gibson fan. This is one of my all time favorite films and the kind of film I can watch over and over again. As with all of the Shyamalan stories their is more going on than the main story and you don't find that out til the very end of the story and then everything make perfect sense to the veiwer. I will not spoil the ending here either. So get the movie and have a wonderful time.

Huh?.......2007-05-31

Not a film for everyone, aliens once again threaten the earth this time broadcasting their arrival through crop circles. I used to live in the area where this was filmed. It was nothing like this. The overpopulated Bucks County seems in this film to lie on the edge of nowhere with people terrified of crop circles of all things as if they had never seen or heard of one before. The setting and dialogue and general character reactions did not seem true even for a moment. This is not to denigrate a fine cast including an underrated Mel Gibson who is always a lot more talented and intelligent than people give him credit for. But the story did not make sense and those wimpy aliens... Grab a big stick and beat them with it and save the world. All the pieces are here. All that was needed was a coherent screenplay.

birthing tales while the aliens circle.......2007-04-19

The opening scenes of this mock-horror film, accompanied by the incessant cawing of crows, are terrifying, reminiscent of Mr Hitchcock's mastery.

Then comes the humor. Rarely has so much ironic, self-deprecating humor been laid down so consistently in the Scary Movie genre.

This is classic Mel the Hilarious, before the establishment painted him Conflicted and Conflictive for daring to portray the violent demise of Jesus and for his gigantic miscalculation while talking to a trooper while quite drunk.

'It was very dark', he and his somewhat perturbed brother played by Joaquin Phoenix, perturbed that is until he achieves his redemption at the end of a baseball bat whose other end was the undoing of an alien. It's hard to describe an alien that makes its appearance by scampering on the roof when it's so inconveniently dark.

Yes, there are aliens in this movie. They are even green and humanoid.

We get to them after the Mel character's tragic loss of a good priest's wife, his near loss of his two children to the hatred that comes when a good father lets the unthinkable happen to Mommy, and the loss of things that Gibson's enormously capable face allows us only to guess at.

'It's not "Father" any more', he insists, in abbreviation of all that has been lost but feels like it's been renounced. It hasn't been renounced, only placed on pause while Gibson deals with the kids, his brother, the aliens, and then the recovery of his faith after angry honesty has run its course.

This is the perfect Sunday afternoon movie, best capped off by a nap and then a 'snacky plate', as Sunday evening hints at a bona fide meal are known in our family.

Who would have thought it? The aliens hate water.

Yes, there are aliens. For an afternoon. Then they go away.

They didn't like the water.

Signing Time! Vol. 1: My First Signs DVD

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Thrilled Grandma
My toddler can't get enough of signing time!
Signing Time Vol. 1 ,2 & 3
Fun for the Whole Family
Signing Time

Signing Time! Vol. 1: My First Signs DVD
Starring: Rachel de Azevedo Coleman; Alex Brown; Leah Coleman
Director: Jon Pierre Francia; Emilie de Azevedo Brown
Manufacturer: Two Little Hands Productions
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ASIN: B00007JQL8
Release Date: 2002-10-04

Description

The first in the Signing Time! series. Cousins Alex Brown (who can hear) and Leah Coleman (who is deaf) invites babies and children of all ages to "Come sign with us!" My first Signs presents 18 basic American Sign Language (ASL) signs to your family in a fun and memorable way. It's Signing Time: My First Signs - ASL signs you can use everyday!

The ASL signs taught are:
Eat, Milk, Water, Ball, More, Bird, Dog, Cat, Fish, Car, Airplane, Want, Shoes, Flower, Mom, Dad, Baby, Sleep

The DVD version includes an ASL sign review.

Customer Reviews:

Thrilled Grandma.......2007-07-04

I purchased this DVD for my grandson who is autistic. While not every autistic person responds to signing, my grandson does. so far, the results are fantastic! In three weeks his vocabulary has increased by nearly 50%, using both the signs and speaking the words. His parents are completely thrilled by the results. Another plus, his 2 year old sister's vocabulary has increased as well. I will eventually buy the whole set for them. Thanks so much Rachel and company!!

My toddler can't get enough of signing time!.......2007-06-23

We have had the Signing Time videos for a year and a half. We own 8 of the videos. My son loves to watch these videos, and he asks me through signing to watch them often. My husband and I use the signs during the day as well. My son started signing at 13 months. He is now almost 2. At a recent family gathering I got many positive comments on my son's use of sign language. Many people told me that they have heard of babies and toddlers using sign language, but my son was the first baby they had actually witnessed using it. I really credit Signing Time for that.

You are certainly not going to become fluent in sign language by watching these videos. You will learn signs that your child will actually use such as; milk, water, dog, cat, mom and dad. If you continue with the series you will learn many more food signs, family signs, colors, numbers, animals, and feelings. These are all common words in a toddler's vocabluary.

Also, some people have expressed concerns that children who sign may not speak. This has not been my experience. My son says the word as he signs it. I highly recommend the whole Signing Time series to anyone who wants to learn basic signs to improve communication with theri baby or toddler.

Signing Time Vol. 1 ,2 & 3.......2007-05-24

We love the Signing Time DVDs! It grabs your attention right from the beginning. The music is great and hearing the children's voices keeps my granddaughters attention. While at the grocery store, she signed apple which is not a word we taught her, she had learned it from the Signing Time DVD. I just ordered Volumes 4&5.

Fun for the Whole Family.......2007-05-18

My 10 month old daughter saw this program on PBS and picked up the signs immediately. She used the signs for animals she saw outside the next day. We were so impressed we had to check out the rest of the shows.
Pros - My husband, daughter, and I all like to sit and watch these. They move quickly enough to keep all of our attention. They have enough examples that it's easy to learn. The songs are cute and catchy (they get better in the later dvds.)
Cons - Not as high quality as the later dvds. The price is high for such a short kid's program. I'd like to buy the baby signs programs for my son, but I don't want to spend so much.

I will purchase this entire set. We are buying them two at a time as my daughter masters them.

Signing Time.......2007-05-13

The kids like to watch the video and frequently use the signs. My kids are 3 and 4. Definitely geared toward their ages.

Signing Time! Volume 2: Playtime Signs DVD

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Excellent
its ok
Great for the entire family
Baby's Voice
Good for grandparents too

Signing Time! Volume 2: Playtime Signs DVD
Starring: Rachel de Azevedo Coleman; Alex Brown; Leah Coleman
Director: Emilie de Azevedo-Brown; Jon Pierre Francia
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ASIN: B000090W7G
Release Date: 2002-11-04

Description

Everyone loves playtime! Alex, Leah and friends share playtime ASL signs with your child. "Playtime Signs" is the perfect building block for your growing ASL sign vocabulary. More of everything you love about Signing Time! More music and more ASL signs!

Signs in this volume include:

* Friend
* Play
* Train
* Doll
* Bike
* Bear
* Please
* Share
* Your turn
* My turn
* Book
* Read
* Socks
* Yes
* No
* Drink
* Thirsty
* Dirty
* Clean
* Potty
* Bath
* Hurt
* Sorry
* Stop
* Go
* Wait
* Wash hands
* Thank you
* Grandma
* Grandpa

DVD version includes ASL sign review and ASL tips.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent.......2007-06-02

Since he was three months old our son has really enjoyed this DVD. While he's not old enough to start signing, it's easy to tell that he is picking up on activities displayed on the screen. He loves to watch Hopkins the frog. No doubt that once he is old enough he will pick up the signing quickly. Highly recommend.

its ok.......2007-05-19

The dvd is very easy to learn but its is one of the oldest dvds so it is a lot different than the ones my daughter is use to. It is a lot slower, not as many songs, and it doesn't catch my daughters attention as easily as the others. It does have some good signs in the dvd that really come in handy but I'm hoping signing time comes out with a new dvd that has these signs in it.

Great for the entire family.......2007-05-18

My [..] asks to watch "Alex and Leah" almost every day. She has learned all of the signs on this dvd in no time. They keep her (and me) entertained. We watch and learn together - they are just the right speed. Fast enough that I don't get bored, but they review each sign enough that you really learn them! The songs are cute and catchy too. My infant son watches sometimes. I think he likes to see all of the children. Love these dvds!

Baby's Voice.......2007-05-17

Great DVD and learning tool. My 18 month old daughter would love to have this running on a continuous basis. It is fun for everyone and gives us a great time learning together. My 4 year old is really enjoying the DVD. What a great head start in communicating with our children.

Good for grandparents too.......2007-05-12

Our pre-school grandchildren love these videos and since one of them has developmental delays , we bought two for ourselves to help us learn to communicate with her. They are easy to follow with good repetition and illustrations to make it easier to learn. We highly recommend them.

Average customer rating:

amazing series
This is helping my daughter learn her signs
Guilt-free entertainment
fun
Baby signing/speech

My Baby Can Talk - First Signs

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For infants 10-36 months
Run Time: 45 minutes including parent tutorial
Creates a bond between parent and child
Bright toys and live images captivate attention of child
Uses sign language to help develop baby's preverbal communication

ASIN: B0002KJJHI
Release Date: 2004-07-15

Description

Inspiring early language development - from simple gestures to first spoken words.

My Baby Can Talk - First Signs is designed to be baby's first introduction to preverbal communication and teaches American Sign Language in a format that delights the senses while tapping into a baby's innate language capabilities. Created to encourage interaction and set to classical music, My Baby Can Talk - First Signs takes babies and their parents on an inspiring discovery of the first words and signs that are most loved by babies - including eat, drink, milk, more, book, go and favorite animals to delight babies and inspire them to begin to sign!

Honored with fourteen prestigious parenting awards and reviewed and endorsed by child psychologists, professionals in the media as well as early childhood educators; the My Baby Can Talk series inspires preverbal communication as well as first spoken words and is the first program featuring preverbal babies signing. Research has shown that babies who use sign language tend to speak sooner with larger vocabularies, show an increase in IQ scores and engage in more sophisticated play.

The My Baby Can Talk series is specifically developed to respect the developmental stage, attention span and intellect of hearing babies from 10 to 36 months. This program includes a Parent Tutorial and a printed Quick Reference Signing Card.

MyBabyCanTalk.com is the premier resource center on the Internet for babies and signing featuring detailed tutorials, background research, and a video dictionary with more than 200 ASL signs that are most important to and appropriate for babies and toddlers.

Customer Reviews:

amazing series.......2007-06-14

WONDERFUL < WONDERFUL WONDERFUL, all parents should get this for their babies/toddlers. Our daughter has just thrived on these 2 dvd's by mybabycantalk.com What a wonderful set. Get them BOTH. We only wish they would make MORE dvd's with more ASL-signing words for them to learn like this.She picked up the signs so quickly.

This is helping my daughter learn her signs.......2007-06-13

We're pleased with this DVD - it holds my daughter's attention and has helped her with learning signs. I'm surprised words like mom and dad are not included, and dinosaur is. But overall, my duaghter enjoys it, she is learning, and we're very happy with this purchase.

Guilt-free entertainment.......2007-06-09

My little guy LOVES the My Baby Can Talk series -- he'll stand quietly for 20 minutes at a time, just staring at the screen....sometimes doing the signs along with the people on the video. He's just about to turn one and already knows a handful of the signs -- what a treat to be able to communicate with him!

fun.......2007-05-30

My child likes the "My Baby Can Talk" dvds (I've found 2 so far) better than the Einstein First Signs DVD that I bought. I am not sure why. What I have noticed is that they teach more words and try to give you a way to remember the sign. They also don't spend the first 3 minutes of a 25 minute disc advertising for their other products which is very annoying (of Einstein discs). I would definitely buy other discs in the series if there were some.

Baby signing/speech.......2007-05-28

This is a great tool to use for young children who are having speech delays like my grandson who is 22 months old. He really likes this video...and it works well with his early intervention one on one. I highly recommend it. He picked up the signing so quickly...and also tries to say the words for each item.

Signing Time! Volume 3: Everyday Signs DVD

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I learned a lot and It was SO EASY!
Rachel is our family's new American Idol
Great learning tool for small children
Totally recommend
My First Signs.... THE BEST

Signing Time! Volume 3: Everyday Signs DVD
Starring: Rachel de Azevedo Coleman; Alex Brown; Leah Coleman
Director: Emilie de Azevedo Brown; Jon Pierre Francia
Manufacturer: Two Little Hands Productions
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ASIN: B000090W7H
Release Date: 2002-11-04

Description

Signing Time! Volume 3: Everyday Signs

Watch, enjoy and learn as Alex, Leah and all their friends share everyday ASL signs. This award winning video will teach babies and children the ASL signs that they'll use every day. ASL Sign language made fun for the whole family. You won't be able to resist trying your hands at the Silly Pizza Song!

ASL Signs you will learn:

* Hungry * Apple * Cookie * Cereal * Banana * Bread * Cheese * Cracker * Ice cream * Candy * Help * Full * Hot * Cold * Wet * Dry * Like * Don't Like * Day * Sun * Night * Moon * Stars * Happy * Laugh * Sad * Cry * Boy * Girl

DVD version includes ASL sign review and ASL tips.

Customer Reviews:

I learned a lot and It was SO EASY!.......2007-06-24

If you have a desire to learn sign language with your kids, this is an amazing treat! I liked that every word that was being taught was somehow related so it wasn't an attack on the brain. I also liked that there were songs after every few words. This is great fun and a nice way to learn a few words to a new language.

Rachel is our family's new American Idol.......2007-06-18

The music is fun, the production keeps getting better, and the little ones are spellbound by it.

Great learning tool for small children.......2007-05-17

Loved Volume 3 of Signing Time. My children ages 18 months to 6 years loved the Pizza song. Can't wait to get Volume 4. My 18 month old is always asking with sign language to see 'Baby Signing Time'. She now can tell us what she wants and doesn't get frustrated in the process. I recommend this highly to give your little ones a voice.

Totally recommend.......2007-04-04

Love it, love it, love it! The 'Signing Time' series is wonderful. Fun music, songs and sceens. Our son is 19 months old and has been signing basic signs since about 12 months. We first bought Baby See 'n Sign (don't waste the money) and he wouldn't even pay attention to them. I couldn't even stand watching them, extremely boring and a lot of the signs are not correct ASL. Then we went to 'Baby Signs'...excellent, great for beginners, easy for babys to relate to Bebo the bear and the characters, however not enough signs on each video otherwise I would have kept buying them. I decided to try the 'Signing Time' series and he really enjoys watching them. He even does the sign and says the word with Leah & Alex. He will watch a whole video. I really like the review section for my husband and I because we don't always get to watch the entire video (cooking dinner etc). I plan on buying the rest of the videos.

My First Signs.... THE BEST.......2007-04-03

This is the BEST first signs DVD ever!! It's very EASY to learn and keeps the attention of my 3yr old, which is hard to do!! After only the first 3hrs of watching(yes,we watch it ALL day)the DVD my son is trying to sign and he's actually doing some of them correctlly. This is a MUST, I've bought others and sad to say they were not worth it, my son has a fit when I put the other kind in, it HAS to be "Signing Time" and NOTHING els. I'ts amazing that he knows the difference.

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Here's how to teach sign along with the videos.

My Baby Can Talk - Sharing Signs
Starring: Baby Hands Productions
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For ages 10 months and up
Run time of 40 minutes including tutorial
Helps parents communicate with young children
Sign language helps baby increase vocabulary at later age
Shows increases in IQ scores

ASIN: B000C3L27A
Release Date: 2005-11-28

Description

Inspiring early language development - from simple gestures to first spoken words.

Designed to encourage interaction, My Baby Can Talk - Sharing Signs teaches babies to communicate before they can speak using sign language in a format that delights the senses while tapping into a baby's innate language capabilities. Set to classical music, My Baby Can Talk - Sharing Signs takes babies and their parents on an inspiring discovery of 28 words and signs that are most loved by babies - including all done, apple, bath, ball, daddy, diaper, elephant, flower, help, mommy, please, share, and thank you!

Customer Reviews:

BUY IT!.......2007-05-19

I can't say enough about these DVD's - my son started with them a six months and knows almost all the signs on boths DVD's at 12 months. He even puts signs together like "more food" and "shirt bath" (when he wants to take off his shirt and get in the tub)
i'm not an advocate of letting kids watch tv - but make these DVDs an exception to your no tv rule. START YOUNG - don't wait until your kid is frustrated to start sign language!

great dvd.......2007-05-16

I love this dvd, more importantly, my son loves this dvd. He'll watch it the entire way through and is learning signs already, he is 15 months old and I've had the video a month. Sometimes I watch it with him, other times I put it in and he becomes so engrossed in it that I can actually get a few things done! He isn't much of a tv watcher, but this dvd holds his attention from the time I push play. The dvd shows an item (monkey, for instance)with a voice saying monkey, shows a woman signing monkey with a voice saying monkey, and shows numerous toy and real monkeys, a baby signing monkey, again shows a woman signing monkey with a voice saying monkey, and shows one more monkey before going on to the next word. This dvd has the signs for monkey, diaper, cracker, cereal, baby, sleep, mommy, daddy, please, thank you, tree, bath, socks, and several more. I'm just writing this down from memory, so my list may not be completely accurate. I'm mostly interested in my son learning words so that I can understand when he is hungry or thirsty, between this dvd and the "My Baby Can Talk - First Signs" dvd, my son is learning most of what I consider the most useful signs.

Excellent Product from a Company that stands behind their products!.......2007-03-27

Both of the DVD's that are currently available in the "My Baby Can Talk" line are an absolute MUST for any parent/ caregiver that is wanting to introduce and use signing as a means to communicate with their child! Not only does my son throughly enjoy the DVD's and REQUEST them by the first sign on each DVD... but I'm also impressed by the company's commitment to providing excellent, personal, service!

By far, the best there is out there! I know two little hands in my house that would give big thumbs up to agree!!!

Engaging.......2007-03-22

My daughter get drawn in with both the music and the video. I love that the video shows the word in many different settings. For example, for 'monkey', the woman gives the sign for monkey, then you see monkey stuffed animals dancing around on the screen, then it shows clips of real monkeys, and a child signing 'monkey', toy monkeys, and finally the woman repeats the sign one last time. I think it give great, realistic associations for the child. I wish the woman doing the signs was a little more enthusiastic, but as a whole, I like this better than 'Signing Times'.

Here's how to teach sign along with the videos........2007-03-14

I am a speech therapist, and I thnk this is a terrific, well-filmed, quality video. It is great for receptive vocabulary whether or not you much care about learning to sign! :) It has lots of repetition with REAL videos and pictures of the objects (not cartoons) and great music. It has just the right pacing to keep children excited and a nice, slow modeling of the signs with LOTS of verbal repetition of the vocabulary. My daughter loves these.

Now, my 2-year-old daughter is on the autism spectrum and did not understand how to imitate. For parents trying to help their children learn to sign, a big "tool" that I feel is "left out" of lots of videos is "HOW" to teach your child to sign if they don't seem to be learning from just watching. For young children, or children who cannot easily imitate, try "hand over hand" learning. Pick an object your child can "receive" once he learns a sign. A small cracker works great for the "eat" sign. During a snacktime when he is NOT starving, take your child's hands and make the sign for "eat" to his mouth. Then, immediately give him a piece of the cracker. Do this over and over again with repetition and SMALL bits of cracker (so he doesn't get too full). Watch that you don't wait too long on giving him the cracker or he will not learn that the sign is a part of things and he will get frustrated! :)
Now, after 10 or so repetitions, try to just hold his arm and guide his hand to his mouth to help him make the sign. After a number of more reps, try and just barely TOUCH his arm. You are gradually fading the amount of help you need to help him learn the sign. Eventually, he will go to make the sign himself. You may have to jump in and help again in a new session until he can remember the sign. This may take several days or week sessions depending on how old your child is. Be patient and try this at snack time everyday. You may be surprised how fast it happens!
You can also do this same thing with other signs once he gets the hang of things. Just be sure to FIRST choose signs that your child can receive reinforcment for. So, pick a sign like "book" where you can read to him right after he signs..or "go" where you give him a push in the grocery cart as soon as he signs. Use your child's interests as guides. Pick a sign that is relative to what HE is interested in...favorite toys or foods work great. Signs like "cat" aren't too helpful in the beginning, because what do you "get" if you sign cat? What can you give your child as reinforcement for that? Pick signs that he can use to request his needs. These work best for helping him understand that language can "get him something" and therefore "means something".
Finally, a young child (4 or younger) won't be easily able to imitate very detailed signs. You may have to modify the sign to teach it. And that is just fine! The point is not that the child can make the sign 100% correctly as it relates to American Sign Language. The REAL point is that the sign means something and that it consistently stands for that language concept. For example, for my daughter, she couldn't sign "go" which is circling your hands within each other. So, for "go" she simply raises her arm. We use it in the shopping cart at the grocery store, in the car at red lights, in the swing at the park, etc. It was her "first sign" and it helped her communicate purposefully and have a "role" in her independence. As she got the hang of it and got a bit older, I was able to teach the sign for "swing" instead of just "go". But in the beginning, a sign that can lead to a wanted action is very powerful for a child. Good luck and feel free to write if you'd like some helpful ideas!
:)Meredith [...]

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Signing Time! Volume 5: ABC Signs DVD
Starring: Rachel de Azevedo Coleman; Alex Brown; Leah Coleman
Director: Doug Chamberlain
Manufacturer: Two Little Hands Productions
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ASIN: B00074OLR2
Release Date: 2004-12-14

Description

Join Alex, Leah, their frog Hopkins, and Signing Time's Rachel Coleman for more "Signing Time" fun!

ABC Signs teaches the alphabet in American Sign Language, and introduces more than 50 signs for words corresponding to different letters.

Sign and sing along with the fun and fabulous new songs:
A is For Alex and Alligator
LMNO
Lonely Letter X

DVD version includes special features, ASL tips and a sign by sign walk through of "A is for Alex and Alligator"

Customer Reviews:

good dvd.......2007-03-25

Not bad, but not as effective as the first 3 in the series. My son, after a while, was able to learn the alphabet in sign, he just was not as interested in watching the dvd as he was volumes 1-3.

Signing Time is PERFECT for learning ASL for Autistic Kids.......2007-02-01

When my child was diagnosed with Autism at the age of 19 months, we decided that ASL would be a great 'visual support' for her and gave it a try. We own several DVD's in this series and LOVE them.

I have spent these recent trying (and succeeding) at understanding and communicating with my own child and ASL and visual supports have been the cornerstone of our therapies. When I could not find materials to help educate her, I made them myself. My name is Laura Behrendt and I have a website [...] where I have made available items that have successfully helped my child and other children with Autism.

Very good.......2007-02-01

Although my daughter is still too young (under 2) to perform any of the letters of the alphabet, she still enjoys watching any signing time video. She just loves Rachel.

Fantastic DVD.......2007-01-22

I can't say enough wonderful things about this series. They are fabulous. This one in particular I loved as it helped to teach my children the alphabet. I would recommend the entire series for anyone with little kids, they make it fun for kids and parents to learn sign language together.

Great Video.......2006-11-05

My 2.5 year old loves this video and it's helped him learn his ABC's and he loves trying to sign!

Global Warming: The Signs and the Science

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Just like "An Inconvenient Lie"
Convincing images and scientific comments
Stuoendous!
Global Warming:The Signs and the Science

Global Warming: The Signs and the Science

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ASIN: B000CPHAAG
Release Date: 2006-01-17

Customer Reviews:

Just like "An Inconvenient Lie".......2007-04-18

There's no proof that global warming is caused by human activity or greenhouse gases. Every follower of the global warming religion (it's a religion because it requires an immense leap of faith) chooses to ignore the evidence that does not suit his/her ideology. The fact of the matter is that global warming existed long before humans even inhabited this planet, much less were polluting it. What does it tell you about how seriously Al Gore is taking the problem if he is still consuming energy at about 20 times the national average? Saying that humans are responsible for global warming is a cash cow for Gore and his cronies but if they were really scared, they wouldn't just preach conservation, they would practice it as well.

Sir Nicolas Stern is one of the high priests of this godless religion. In support of his gloomy thesis, Stern, like all global warming enthusiasts, ignores the evidence that does not suit his ideology. He glosses over the fact that, according to a host of historical accounts, Europe was far warmer in the Middle Ages than it is today, or that the 17th century was much colder, prompting what was known as 'The Little Ice Age', when the Thames was often frozen over for months at a time.

Stern also refers to 'significant melting of and an acceleration of ice floes' near the coast of Greenland because of global warming.

Yet several reputable scientific studies have shown that the mass of the Greenland ice sheet is actually expanding, while Stern also fails to note that the temperature of Greenland is now lower than it was in 1940 and little changed from the first measurements in the 1780s.

Environmentalists are fond of jerking heartstrings with pictures of polar bears struggling on supposedly melting icebergs, but it is estimated that there are now 22,000 polar bears compared with 5,000 in 1940.

Nor can we be sure that any long-term changes in our climate are due to mankind. There are any number of other possibilities and the programme tonight examines the possibility that the sun's radiation is primarily responsible for climate change.

Indeed, the climate can fluctuate without any external cause at all -- something again ignored by Stern, who wants only to indulge in the fashionable notion that western capitalism is entirely to blame for every drought and disaster.

Further, Stern takes no account of the capacity of mankind to adapt to, and improve his, environment.

There can be little dispute that, more than a century after the peak of the 19th-century industrial revolution, Britain is a cleaner, healthier, less polluted country than it was in the late Victorian age, when smog, disease and slums were rife.

Genuine science is about gathering evidence and testing the veracity of theories, not cheerleading for a particular ideology.

That is what is so disturbing about the current debate on global warming. Healthy scepticism, which should be at the heart of all scientific inquiry, is treated with contempt.

Far from being the powerful masterpiece that Blair claimed, Stern's report is manifestly incompetent.

It is another dodgy dossier, where assertions are presented as facts and data is twisted to suit a political purpose.

I agree with the economist critic who noted: 'If a student of mine were to hand in this report as a masters thesis, perhaps if I were in a good mood, I would give him D for diligence, but more likely I would give him an F for fail.' We are shifting away from science and into the realm of religious fanaticism, where the followers of the creed, brimming with self-righteous fury, believe that they are in possession of a higher truth.

Like a religion, environmentalism is suffused with hatred for the material world and again, like religion, it requires devotion rather than intellectual rigour from its adherents.

It is intolerant of dissent; those who question the message of doom are regarded as heretics, or 'climate change deniers', to use green parlance.

And, just as in many religions, the route to personal salvation lies in the performance of superstitious rituals, such as changing a lightbulb or arranging for a tree to be planted after every plane journey.

What is so tragic is the way that this dubious ideology has achieved such dominance in our public life.

Politicians love the green agenda, of course, because it means more control, more regulation, more taxes, more summits, and more opportunities for displays of self-important zeal.

The tragedy is that the likes of Sir Nicholas Stern are using bogus science to push forward this agenda.

Convincing images and scientific comments.......2007-03-09

I am a K-12 school librarian and am launching an awareness project about the environment, with global warming as a key topic. I needed a documentary about global warming for secondary level students.
I had proposed that all teachers watch "An inconvenient Truth" for their own information, and was confronted with one typical negative reaction: "Al Gore has an agenda, this is politics in school and I will not admit that. I want scientific, objective information". Although I do not agree with this reaction at all, I thought that I might as well look for something else, since I think that "An Inconvenient Truth" is not the ideal first step to raise awareness among the younger students. And there I ordered the PBS "Global Warming" documentary. Alanis Morissette is a very articulate speaker, clear and convincing. The construction and contents of the film, with very interesting interviews with diverse scientists give an excellent overview of the issue.
This DVD and "An inconvenient Truth are important eye-openers for us all!

Stuoendous!.......2007-01-09

Stunning, factual, direct. If you want yet another documenrtary to support ecological acti.on needed, watch this and An Inconvenient Truth

Global Warming:The Signs and the Science.......2006-11-10

Complete overview of the challenges facing our planet! Wonderful complement to our ecology class. Karen Orrell

Lily Tomlin: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

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Truly A Classic
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch....
Lily Tomlin
Less than Lily
A Work Of Genius

Lily Tomlin: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
Starring: Lily Tomlin , and Clay Walker
Director: John Bailey
Manufacturer: Laugh.Com
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ASIN: B000BNI9CC
Release Date: 2005-11-08

Customer Reviews:

Truly A Classic.......2007-05-13

I attended a live performance of this masterpiece starring Lily Tomlin many years ago at a theatre in Hollywood. Had no idea it was available as a DVD, but when I found it I ordered it immediately. Excellent addition to my collection, and it does capture the live part.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch...........2007-03-20

It's amazing how Lily can hop between characters with complete ease. Trudy the bag lady dispenses amazing insights while wearing her wig inside-out. Two hookers (Brandy and Tina, both played by Lily) have a touching conversation with each other, end up meeting up with Trudy, and pass by Agnes Angst - a teen punk rocker at odds with the world. The video vignettes give meaning and life to Lily's amazingly developed characters and their activities. She must be in good shape because she never gets out of breath as Chrissy - a participant in an aerobics class who gives a non-stop monologue as she exercises.

It does get a bit long - but it's worth it. Very funny. Impressive. No wonder this was such an incredibly successful stage production.

Lily Tomlin.......2006-11-05

Lily is such a Talent, but I think this program lost a lot by being on video instead of in person.

Less than Lily.......2006-08-30

This is a stage production, apparently written for Lily. It is not funny, it is not well acted. I threw it away after one viewing.

R. Dean

A Work Of Genius.......2006-02-24

Jane Wagner and Lily Tomlin are geniuses . my partner and I got the movie version of their place, "The Search For Signs Of Intelligent Life In The Universe" , and we were simply struck by it. We had read the play before, but Lily Tomlin's masterful performance truly brings everything together. The play is beautiful and intelligent, and it should definitely be considered one of the most significative plays of the last half of the 20th century. When Trudy delivers her final monologue, it is a hard man who does not feel anything at those last words.

If you buy a movie in the next few months, make this one your movie.

If you walk away with anything from this play, it should be the knowledge to distinguish between Soup and Art.

And what do I mean by that? Well, you'll just have to see the play now, won't you?

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