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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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English
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With this book, you will find it simple to use this language, which the author learned in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, principally from Sioux Indians in Wyoming. Drawings and short descriptions make clear the proper positions and motions of the hands to convey the meaning of over 870 alphabetically arranged common words.
6) Home Casa
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Series
Language
English
Description
Provides illustrations of American Sign Language signs and Spanish and English text for various objects around the house.
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Language
English
Description
Want to discover more about ASL? This friendly guide explains the basics you need to start communicating right away, from proper handshapes and body language to vocabulary and grammar. With the conversations in the book and on the video CD, you'll build your skills for use in the home, office, and around town.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
"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...
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Series
Language
English
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What if your baby could "talk" to you before he or she could actually speak? Sign Babies creator Nancy Cadjan brings years of expertise to Baby Signing 1-2-3, teaching you her unique and easy way of learning baby signing through rich illustrations. Baby Signing 1-2-3 provides specific signs and techniques for different age ranges, so you know how to work best with baby at each stage of development. Packed full of pictures that show and explain each...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"This book introduces young readers to American Sign Language words for the alphabet. Each page features two to four alphabet signs within an everyday situation a child might be a part of. The opposite page has a bright, fun image as well as illustrations of the sign created by an in-house designer and simple, step-by-step directions" --
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Series
Lexile measure
290L
Language
English
Description
"Introduces young readers to American Sign Language words for family members. Each page features one family sign within an everyday situation a child might be a part of. The opposite page has a bright, fun image as well as an illustration of the sign created by an in-house designer and simple, step-by-step directions" --
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Series
Language
English
Description
While learning a new language isn't a "knack" for everyone, Knack American Sign Language finally makes it easy. The clear layout, succinct information, and topic-specific sign language partnered with high-quality photos enable quick learning. By a "bilingual" author whose parents were both deaf, and photographed by a design professor at the leading deaf university, Gallaudet, it covers all the basic building blocks of communication. It does so with...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Feeling isolated as the only African American in her sixth grade class, Jessi gains a sense of belonging by participating in the Baby-sitters Club, learning sign language in order to communicate with a deaf child, and dancing in a ballet.
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Series
Language
English
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"This book introduces young readers to American Sign Language words for colors. Each page features one color sign within an everyday situation a child might be a part of. The opposite page has a bright, fun image as well as an illustration of the sign created by an in-house designer and simple, step-by-step directions" --
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