A Time To Sign, The Dusty Devil and Something To Sign About by Marie Kerwin

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Products by the Kerwins :

A Time To Sign

Something To Sign about

The Dusty Devil

About Marie Kerwin
Marie Kerwin is the mother of James and Tom Kerwin. James was born profoundly deaf and is now (as an adult) well respected within the hearing and deaf communities alike. He has exceptional English literacy skills, Auslan and ASL language skills, teaching experience and currently works for NABS helping families of newly diagnosed children and the deaf community at large.

Marie learned sign language because of her sons hearing loss. Recognising the importance of this language, and the lack of Auslan (Australian Sign Language) resources for children and parents in Australia, Marie has dedicated herself to helping rectify this situation.

Maries first sign language venture was 'Something To Sign About', which continues to be Australia's most popular Auslan DVD/Video for children. Marie has written 3 childrens picture books (of which 2 are in post production). Her first story, Dusty Devil, was Australias first ever Auslan Picture book and was nominated for childrens picture book of the year. A fabulous achievement. Marie currently helps out at her local school, within their Auslan program, and is continuing to write picture books and develop a video image bank for Bilby Publishing with her son James.

Together, James and Marie have just finished producing 'A Time To Sign', a fantastic DVD starter course in Auslan that is sure to be just as popular as her other projects.

A Time To Sign -
Winner of the Most Popular At Home Course Award 2 Years Running!!
The most popular At Home Auslan Course for children and beginners is, without doubt A Time To Sign; having now won the prestigious Hearing Awareness Week Product Awards in its category two years in a row.

Do you want to learn sign at a pace
and time that suits you?

James Kerwin will teach you Auslan through this easy to understand DVD. Each of the 123 signs is clearly presented with engaging video of the object being signed, equally appealing to adults and children.

Sections include : Animals & Other Creatures; People & Clothing; Home & School; Earth & Sky; Actions & Transport; Important Signs

PLUS the DVD includes an interactive test yourself section where the video of the object is displayed, and you use your video remote to choose the matching sign.

Approx run time 93 min

Now with a mini Dictionary included!
The DVD now comes with a mini dictionary style booklet (32 pages) that details every sign on the DVD in Black and White line art, plus a description of how to perform the sign. PLUS alternative and variation signs are detailed within the book, together with a detailed explanation of why alternative signs exist and how to know which one to use.

What other people thought:

We purchased this DVD to help our young daughter learn to sign so she could communicate with us better before she could talk. This has been a really useful dvd - I highly recommend it to any new parent.

syrillion - 1/11/2009

SOMETHING TO SIGN ABOUT
DVD of childrens songs

"Something To Sign About" has just been re-released at a lower price with a new cover (DVD contents remain the same). It is a marvelous collection of children's songs with AUSLAN translation created by Marie Kerwin in Qld.

There are 11 songs on the DVD that have each been written by Marie especially for signing children. Marie's son, James, is profoundly deaf, and is now an AUSLAN tutor. He was consulted for the translation of the songs and signs five of the songs on the DVD.

This DVD is perfect for Toddlers, Pre-schoolers and Primary children and Bilby Publishing can not recommend it highly enough. It has also been supported by FACES (Freinds of Australian Communication Exchange) and sponsored by Queensland Deaf Society.

This wonderful DVD is nowonly $25

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Songs included:

Sunshine
Silly Old Goat
Dreams
Runny Honey
I Talk With My Hands
Little Green Frog
Seasons
I Like To Dance
The Alphabet Song
I Live In Australia
That's Good

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The first ever children's picture book with Auslan images

The Dusty Devil
Australia's First Picture Book With Auslan Images

This delightful story, written by Marie Kerwin, about a mischievous whirlwind on Mr Browns farm. Each page contains the english text and Auslan signs.

Perfect for hearing and Deaf children and parents who are learning sign language!

The Auslan images within this book have been nationally certified by the ACARA panel of experts, who also helped prepare the introductory page, that includes state variation signs (3 images) and an explaination as to how signs were selected and the fact that the images appear above the English words to help novice signers learn signs. All attempts were made by the author to write the story in such a way that the images would appear in Auslan grammer order, however this is sometimes very difficult to achieve, while maintaining sense in English as well.

What other people thought:

Absolutely love the product. Excellent quality. Will be treasured forever.

Mac - 5/15/2007

thankyou for this fantastic book, i will use it in my classroom

Pam - 5/15/2007

A lovely Australian book.Great service, lots more to buy from this store.Thanks! I want to get another copy of this book in the future. I am using it with all the children in the 2-3year old room where there is a child who uses Auslan.

Liesel - 6/29/2007