Presents more than 4,500 alphabetized American Sign Language terms with full-torso illustrations and instructions, as well as tips for remembering them.

"Features more than 1,000 ASL sign drawings; all signs paired with ... color illustrations; introduction [explains] how to sign ASL and fingerspell; complete index of English terms for each sign, including synonyms; sample sentences using specific words to match every sign's meaning"--Page 4 of cover.

"This unique reference can help users locate a sign whose meaning they have forgotten or help them find the meaning of a new sign they have just seen for the first time. The American Sign Language handshape dictionary organizes more than 1900 ASL signs by 40 basic handshapes and includes detailed descriptions on how to form these signs to represent the different English words that they might mean. Users can begin to track down a sign by determining...

A portable but comprehensive dictionary of American Sign Language contains fifteen hundred commonly used words and phrases, each illustrated and cross-referenced.

Accompanying DVD-ROM "features a diverse group of native ASL signers demonstrating how to form each of the 3,000 signs. Fully searchable, users can view a sign and quickly go to its synonyms"--Page [4] of cover.

Abridged edition of American Sign Language. 3300 signs, more than 4000 illustrations, and the American Manual Alphabet.

A revised compact edition of the acclaimed reference, written by a former educator at the world's only liberal arts college for the deaf, illustrates that different meanings of the same word might require different signs and includes more than 4,500 signs and definitions.