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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 includes a two-hour DVD that presents right-and left-handed signers demonstrating every phrase in the book from chapter...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
This video is excellent for every American Sign Language (ASL) student as well as teachers, parents, and professionals learning ASL to communicate clearly and naturally. You will learn how to sign the alphabet, numbers, colors, holidays, calendar, grammar, sentence structures, ASL Idioms and hundreds of vocabulary along with bonus features. DVD Chapter List: Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: ASL Alphabet Chapter 3: ASL Numbers Chapter 4: ASL Colors...
Author
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Description
"Imagine a village where everyone "speaks" sign language. Just such a village - an isolated Bedouin community in Israel with an unusually high rate of deafness - is a the heart of Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind. There, an indigenous sign-language has sprung up, used by deaf and hearing villagers alike. It is a language no outsider has been able to decode, until now." "A New York Times reporter trained as a linguist, Margalit...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
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The Freeman family--Charles, Laurel, and their daughters, teenage Charlotte and nine-year-old Callie--have been invited to the Toneybee Institute in rural Massachusetts to participate in a research experiment. They will live in an apartment on campus with Charlie, a young chimp abandoned by his mother. The Freemans were selected for the experiment because they know sign language; they are supposed to teach it to Charlie and welcome him as a member...
13) Jack and Jill
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Presents an illustrated version of the traditional rhyme that incorporates American Sign language.
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
This groundbreaking volume introduces readers to the key concepts and debates in deaf studies, offering perspectives on the relevance and richness of deaf ways of being in the world. In Open Your Eyes, leading and emerging scholars, the majority of whom are deaf, consider physical and cultural boundaries of deaf places and probe the complex intersections of deaf identities with gender, sexuality, disability, family, and race. Together, they explore...