Diane Ryan
Founder, KinderSigns.com

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 centers 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 centers.

Diane has recently returned to the United States after a year in Europe where she conducted workshops throughout Ireland and England. While there she was a frequent guest on the BBC as well as Irish national radio and television.

Vish Jayaram joined the KinderSigns Canada Team, in May 2006.  Vish has worked for several large and medium sized companies, in various industries in several countries.  He has extensive experience, software development, implementation, and support in automotive specific software and has traveled US, Canada and the Middle Eastern Countries.  Vish is a qualified Chartered Accountant from India, and is a Level 4 CGA Student, in Ontario.  Vish may be contacted at vish@kindersignscanada.com

KinderSigns in the News:

KinderSigns and its founder, Diane Ryan have been featured in worldwide media outlets including the New York Post, the Orlando Sentinel, Arizona Republic, The London Observer, The Sunday Times of London, The Manchester (UK) Evening News, The Scotsman (Edinburgh) , The Irish Examiner and the Irish Star. She has also appeared on Ireland AM and BBC radio and television as well as having been a guest on radio talk shows throughout the United States, Ireland and the UK.