Since Shaylee made her entrance to this world, storytelling has become a daily part of our lives. Granted, Shaylee loves books since she was six months old. Each time she cried, putting a book in her lap would immediately comfort her. However we noticed there was something missing during that time… There were not enough ASL friendly (and kid friendly) materials (books, dvds, etc) for Deaf children to learn with. At that time, I bought everything out there that was kid and Deaf-friendly such as The Signing Time and Missy Keast’s Bedtime stories with Scholastic. Each time Shaylee watched a movie or TV show with no signing, we signed the whole thing to her.

The older she got, more ASL materials were being released not by only big companies, but Deaf individuals who has what it takes to grab a Deaf child’s eye. One thing for sure, they are Deaf themselves. And they are passionate about what they do. Thanks to our technology, several books were born. The first one was by Adam Stone called “Pointy Three.” A cute story about a fork that has only has three prongs and takes a journey meeting other characters. An innovative idea as on each page, there was a person signing the story. My daughter is BIG on apps due to its visibility, but not iBooks as its kind of hidden. That was the only drawback, but perhaps the biggest one if you have young children who likes to explore an iPad on their own. Regardless, Adam pretty much started the wave of what is to come.