What is Signing Time!?
{{Complex}} '''''Signing Time!''''' is a [[Americans|American]] [[Children's television series|children's television]] show. Produced by [[Nickelodeon]], it was produced in association with Nelvana. It teaches [[American Sign Language]] to children between the ages of one through eight. Shown in the United States, it is hosted by [[Rachel de Azevedo Coleman]] and released by [[American Public Television]]. {{Infobox television | italic_title = Signing Time! | creator = [[Rachel Coleman]]<br>Emilie Brown | starring = Rachel Coleman<br>Alex<br>Leah<br>Hopkins | country = United States | language = English<br>ASL | num_seasons = 2 | num_episodes = 26 | location = [[Salt Lake City, Utah]] | runtime = 28-30 minutes }} [[Sign language]] can help children's learning ability to grow. With just a few simple American Sign Language signs, [[babies]] and [[Toddler|toddlers]] — some as young as nine months old — can show people their needs before they can speak, which may make them have fewer temper [[Tantrum|tantrums]], even if they have [[disabilities]]. [[School-age|School-aged]] children enjoy the benefits of learning a second language. Children with [[Disability|developmental delays]] or [[Disability|special needs]] can find their own “voice” by using their hands to talk using sign language. Signing Time helps children learn through three senses — seeing, [[hearing]], and [[Touch|touching]] — and reaches children with different learning styles and [[wikt:able|abilities]] by making children want to [[Communication|communicate]] with other people through signing, [[singing]], [[speaking]] and [[dancing]]. In the series, songwriter and musician Rachel Coleman, her daughter Leah (who is [[deaf]]), Alex (Leah’s cousin who can hear), and their pet [[frog]] named Hopkins, who is a cartoon, teach hundreds of useful American Sign Language signs. Children learn signs for words, questions, [[Phrase|phrases]], [[Movement|movement