Signing Time

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Rachel de Azevedo Coleman is an American musician and actress. Before moving out of the Los Angeles area, she performed with the band We the Living and appeared in the made-for-TV movie Spring Fling. Together with her sister Emilie de Azevedo Brown, she helped to create the Signing Time! video series to teach children basic American Sign Language. Her father Lex de Azevedo is an American Mormon composer known primarily for his film scores. Lex's mother, and Rachel's grandmother is of Alyce King of The King Sisters. In 1996, Rachel and her husband Aaron discovered that their oldest daughter Leah was deaf. In 2001, Rachel teamed up with her sister Emilie to create Signing Time! - a children's video series that teaches basic American Sign Language (ASL) to children of all abilities. Signing Time was inspired by Leah. From the beginning, they have found that teaching her 'hearing' peers even a few basic signs builds bonds of friendship and community that every child needs. She and her father Lex de Azevedo won a Pearl Award in 2007 for songs they had done for children. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Coleman User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.