KinderSigns founder Diane Ryan received her undergraduate degree in Speech and Language Pathology from Nazareth College of Rochester and worked with children with communication disorders in New York State schools for six years. In addition to post-graduate study in language development, she received parallel accreditation in marketing and public relations from the State University of New York, skills she finds useful in spreading the extraordinary benefits of teaching sign language to pre-verbal infants and toddlers.
In the summer of 2001 Diane founded KinderSigns, a Florida-based practice devoted solely to teaching parents how to communicate with their babies before they can speak. Since that time she has been a frequent lecturer at area colleges, hospitals, libraries, community centres and child development conferences. In addition, she has conducted training workshops for parents, grandparents, teachers and community organizations as well as providing in-service training for hospital educators and childcare centres.