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English
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Demonstrates sign language phrases for various topics, including health, family, school, sports, travel, religion, time, money, and food.
Clearly illustrated with hundreds of line drawings, this book focuses on areas such as health, family, school, sports, travel, religion, time, money, food and drink, and small talk. This edition ncludes a two-hour DVD that presents right-and left-handed signers demonstrating every phrase in the book from chapter...
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English
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This guide explains the basics of American Sign Language. You'll be able to start communicating right away, with proper handshapes and body language, vocabulary, and grammar. The CD includes actual conversations and demonstrations by ASL signers, to reinforce lessons from the book.
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Publisher
Gospel Publishing House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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This is a guide for mastering the current basic signs used to communicate with deaf people in either the word order of the English language or in the American Sign Language pattern. It provides the basic vocabulary needed for persons entering interpreter training programs. Over 1500 signs have been illustrated and are grouped by chapter into their natural categories. Includes line drawings and step-by-step descriptions of positions and movements,...
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Publisher
Wellfleet Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
American Sign Language (ASL) is a vibrant, easy-to-learn language that is used by approximately half a million people each day. Current with the latest additions to ASL and filled with thousands of brand new photographs by Deaf actors, Learn American Sign Language is the most comprehensive guide of its kind.- Learn more than 800 signs, including signs for school, the workplace, around the house, out and about, food and drink, nature, emotions, small...
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Publisher
Dover
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Over the period of two years author has devoted the intervals between official duties to collecting and collating materials for the study of sign language. As the few publications on the general subject, possessing more than historic interest, are meager in details and vague in expression, original investigation has been necessary. The high development of communication by gesture among the tribes of North America, and its continued extensive use by...
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Sterling Children's Books
Language
English
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"A is for astronaut, B is for bird, and C is for crab. Bold and bright, hip and cool, this striking ABC board book is like none other: each page teaches children the American Sign Language alphabet through a combination of letters, hand spelling, and adorable illustrations"--
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English
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"True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is...
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Gallaudet University Press
Language
English
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"The unique feature of this dictionary is that it is organized by handshape rather than by alphabetical order. An American Sign Language learner can look up an unfamiliar sign by looking for the handshape rather than by looking up the word in an alphabetical English glossary. At the same time, an English speaker can look up a sign for a specific word by looking at the Index of English Glossaries located at the end of the dictionary. The introduction...
19) Signing for kids
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Language
English
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An introduction to the expressive language of the deaf, organized by subject areas, including Pets, People, Numbers, Sports, Travel, Science, Thoughts and Feelings, and Places.