Features
- Great for the deaf and for ASL teachers and students
- Loaded with illustrations demonstrating ASL
- Supplemented by written descriptions and explanations
- Updated with latest technology-related words
- Paperback; 474 Pages; 7-13/16 x 10-7/8
Learning American Sign Language (ASL) becomes easy with help from this heavily illustrated book. This edition has been updated to include information on new technological developments and their related vocabulary. A useful guide for the deaf and for those who teach or otherwise work among deaf men and women, this book opens with a presentation of the 10 key grammatical rules of ASL. Also emphasized is the use of facial grammar as an important supplement to manual signing.
Most of this book's contents demonstrate and explain signing. More than 800 line drawings illustrate different words and then show how to combine them to express statements. Here is easy access to the use of American Sign Language for both the deaf and hearing individuals who communicate with the deaf.
Written by David A. Stewart, Ed. D., Elizabeth Stewart, B.Sc., and Jessalyn Little, M.Ed.
Paperback; 474 Pages; 7-13/16 x 10-7/8
Table of Contents (Chapter Titles):
The Basics
Getting Started
The Deaf Community
One Million New Signs
Everyday ASL
Directional Verbs and Communicating
The Deaf Way
It's All Relative
Body- and Gaze-Shifting—Personalizing the Message
Talking About Time
Classifiers and the World Games for the Deaf
Deaf Organizations
The Deaf and Hearing World
Poems and Humor
Traveling with ASL
Appendix
Index
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