Family Coaching
Online and in-person support for using ASL to play!
Language play is a crucial part of development! Many families struggle to use ASL in playful and informal ways. We provide toys, activities, individual coaching, and group meetings with other families. Our play-based curriculum is designed to include your whole family- deaf children, hearing siblings, and adults.
Free for families with deaf children;
available to professionals on a sliding scale.
Play to Learn Family Coaching
Play to Learn/Learn to Play
Children learn best through play- and language play is a crucial part of development! Our games and activities are designed to promote language development in informal settings that are fun for everyone.
Many families struggle to use ASL in playful ways. We provide toys, activities, and meetings with experts to coach you through our play-based curriculum.
We’ll teach you some signs, but this is not an ASL curriculum. Plan to take in-person or online ASL classes from other providers while using our program. (Need help finding the right class? Let us know!)
Sign up
Fill out the online form to tell us a little about your family. We’ll get in touch with you to answer your questions and decide the right class for you, based on the ages of your children, your family’s experiences with ASL, and your schedules.
2. Get Ready
We’ll send you a box with some toys & books, and give you some homework to do before classes start- some background material to read, and some videos of signs to learn or review.
3. Online Coaching Sessions
We’ll alternate between group meeting with other families and individual meeting with just you. You’ll learn signs and strategies to get your whole family involved in playtime using ASL. We’ll go through the activities and signs in the group meeting, and then the next week you’ll meet with your deaf Family Coach to practice and adapt each game to your family’s needs.
4. Expert Panels
Our first and last group meetings will include a team of ASL specialists, audiologists, SLPs, and advocates. You’ll hear what pediatric experts in deaf children’s language development have to say, and also get a chance to ask some of your own questions
5. Consultations
After the 8-week course is finished, we’ll get you set up to meet individually with some of the experts you met during the panels. They’ll answer your questions and help you plan ahead for your child’s next IFSP/IEP evaluations and meetings.
Winter 2026 Schedule
Play to Learn A (Families of deaf children ages 1-5)
Thursdays 6:30-8 pm, Mountain Time
1/15/26 Registration deadline
2/5/26 Panel
2/12/26 Family & Food (group)
2/19/26 Individual meetings
2/26/26 Playtime (group)
3/5/26 Individual meetings
3/12/26 Read a Book! (group)
3/19/26 Individual meetings
3/26/26 Panel
