Singing and Signing: Level I

Catalog description

This elective will focus on children ages birth to five years. Students will learn about and engage in interventions designed to promote language development in pre-verbal, developing-verbal and non-verbal children. Highlights will include the history of music and sign language in Deaf Education, as well as the use of American Sign Language (ASL) taught through songs, stories and musical play. Students will learn musical repertoire and develop or refine their sign language vocabulary while learning some subtleties of the grammar and syntax of ASL. This course will be useful to students majoring in Music Therapy, Music Education, Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Early Childhood and Special Education. This course satisfies the Liberal Arts and Sciences requirement and can be taken as a vocal elective.