Emmett Marquez looks up to David McNeal while Stephanie Marquez, right, teaches sign language for Laura McNeil and Katrina Amorelli. On the first and third Thursday of the month, Hallie Hallberg and Marquez teach a baby signs and nursery rhymes class at 10 a.m. in the Mancos Public Library.

Katrina Amorelli helps Gavin McNeil learn sign language at the baby signs and nursery rhymes class.

Laura McNeil helps her son, David, as the two of them learn sign language.