LR center allows all kids to play, learn
Barbara McCreight tucked her thumb into her palm and raised all four fingers on her right hand, the American Sign Language letter B.
“Blue!” cried 6-year-old Cooper Green, pointing to the blue plastic circle McCreight had placed on the floor of Gigi’s Playhouse, an education and social learning skills center in west Little Rock for children with Down syndrome.
On Saturday, a handful of children and their parents attended Gigi’s “LMNOP” (Language, Music N Our Peeps) program, which aids in developing rudimentary sign language skills for children and their parents. McCreight, a retired special-education teacher