Sadrah (Max)ine Black, aka, Ms. Max Black has thrilled the pubic with her Signed Stories.  Ms. Max has enjoyed signing stories at local libraries, schools and for 3 years has been the regular Signing Story Teller at Mitchies Gallery.  

Including an array of stories and songs, Ms. Max renders to children the fun of Sign Language.  It all started in 1980 when Max checked out a sign language book from her high school library and taught herself and her sisters how to sign.  She had met a peer in high school who was deaf.  Wanting to speak to her in her own language, she pursued Sign Language.  In 1985 she achieved the dream of working with the deaf work at Texas School for the Deaf.  She continues today, enjoying the students and 

Working with children having special needs, she enjoyed the challenges of creating activities and materials to assist in their learning process.  Max has served as director or several child care facilities and now serves as a consultant for childcare homes and start ups and working at Texas School for the Deaf.  Her experiences throughout the years has helped her and continues to help Ms. Max to tailor her stories and sign classes to her audiences. 

Designing a curriculum that is simple and keeping the signs functional so that the participants will not only remember what they have experienced, but will be able to use what they have learnt in their daily lives.

Max has been named, Regional Director and the exclusive Signing Storyteller for Author, Salvador Sebasco’s bestseller’s children book,

“The Boy, The King and The Chihuahua.” 

Read more at www.ijustread.com

The Company – My BoRee

Max created BoRee as a way to self-publish and to share her creative works. Stories, poetry, Sign Language, along with other ideas that you will see as you visit the BoRee website. Max wanted something original and unique. 

BoRee is it.  The word BoRee is an acronym derived from the Australian word “boree”. Max found it interesting that this word had two meanings. 

1) An Australian person who chooses to live separate from society.

2) Australian wood used to build fences. 

It in composed everything Max’s BoRee was all about.  While our experiences may cause us to separate from others, at the same time those events and experiences can bring us together like the Australian wood used for making fences.  So the acronym B.o.R.e.e. stands for Max’s ideas that are, “Based On Real Events and Experiences.”