singing hands ltd
So often we are asked “How did you start Singing Hands?” as people assume we
have come from a teaching or performance background and just one day came up
with the rather clever idea to add signing to music. Not quite. The saying
“necessity is the mother of all invention” describes our situation perfectly.
Singing Hands came about as a direct result of a life-changing experience back
in 1999 when our two children were born. As we all know, becoming a parent of
any child is life-changing, but you assume it will take you a new adventure
where you have some vague notion of what sort of life it might entail. However,
becoming a parent of a child with a disability instantly took us off on a
different trajectory, to a world with which neither of us was familiar, and
where we faced an uncertain future