Rachel Coleman
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Rachel de Azevedo Coleman is an American
musician and actress. With her sister Emilie de Azevedo Brown, she helped to create the Signing Time!
video series to teach children basic American Sign Language
(ASL). Coleman also produces and directs the series. She is founder and CEO of Two Little Hands Productions.
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
. She and her father Lex de Azevedo won a Pearl Award in 2007 for songs they had done for children.
As Rachel De Azevedo she has been credited in several episodes of Touched by an Angel. 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".
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 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.
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musician and actress. With her sister Emilie de Azevedo Brown, she helped to create the Signing Time!
Signing Time!
Signing Time! is a television program targeted towards children one through eight that teaches American Sign Language. It is filmed in the United States and was created by Rachel de Azevedo Coleman and Emilie Brown. Coleman also hosts the series. Between the years 2006 and 2008, it was aired by...
video series to teach children basic American Sign Language
American Sign Language
American Sign Language, or ASL, for a time also called Ameslan, is the dominant sign language of Deaf Americans, including deaf communities in the United States, in the English-speaking parts of Canada, and in some regions of Mexico...
(ASL). Coleman also produces and directs the series. She is founder and CEO of Two Little Hands Productions.
Biography
Her father Lex de AzevedoLex de Azevedo
Alexis "Lex" de Azevedo is an American Mormon composer, song writer, pianist and singer known primarily for his film scores and his work on the LDS musical Saturday's Warrior.-Biography:...
is an American Mormon
Mormon
The term Mormon most commonly denotes an adherent, practitioner, follower, or constituent of Mormonism, which is the largest branch of the Latter Day Saint movement in restorationist Christianity...
composer known primarily for his film scores. Lex's mother, and Rachel's grandmother is of Alyce King of The King Sisters
The King Sisters
The King Sisters were an American big band-era vocal quartet.-History:Born and raised in Pleasant Grove, Utah, about 35 miles south of Salt Lake City, the King Sisters originally were part of the "Driggs Family of Entertainers"."In the early 1930s sisters Luise, Maxine and Alyce formed a vocal trio...
. She and her father Lex de Azevedo won a Pearl Award in 2007 for songs they had done for children.
As Rachel De Azevedo she has been credited in several episodes of Touched by an Angel. 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".
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 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.
Awards
Emmy Award Nomination - Rachel Coleman, host of Signing Time, was nominated for the "Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series," for the 35th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmys.Filmography
- Signing Time! Series 1 - Rachel (13 volumes)
- Signing Time! Series 2 - Rachel (13 volumes)
- Baby Signing Time! - Rachel (4 Volumes)
- Practice Time! - Rachel (2 Volumes)
External links
- http://www.signingtime.com
- Rachel's Blog
- Rachel's Twitter