INTRODUCING RAE

      I thought it was about time you started meeting us one by one.  So it seemed I should be the first, as the blogger and director of Praising Hands.

      I first began learning sign language as a child when my friend, who is deaf, communicated mainly through sign language and gestures.  Later, while working on a Special Education Credential, I was required to take a course in ASL, American Sign Language.  

      All of my life I have been interested in music. Besides learning to play more than one instrument, I was in orchestra all through high school.  I also had dance lessons as a child and was involved in various folk dancing groups throughout my younger life.  During my first two years of college, I was a music major.  There fore I was in orchestra and choir.  

       When, after joining our church, someone talked to me about the desire to form a Signing Choir,  these two parts of my life came together.  And the rest of the story you know form a previous post.

Thank you for visiting and may God bless.