The Illustrated Guide For Mastering Sign Language And The Manual Alphabet
Author: Lottie L. Riekehof
Large Hardcover
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'The Joy Of Signing' is one of the most comprehensive guides available for mastering the current (at time of writing) basic signs used to communicate with deaf people in either the word order of the English language or the American Sign Language pattern. It provides the basic vocabulary needed for persons entering interpreter training programs. Families as well as professionals communicating with deaf children and adults will appreciate this manual's conceptually based vocabulary.
Over 1,500 signs have been clearly illustrated in this guide and are grouped by children into their natural categories. An enjoyable and rewarding experience awaits you as you study the line drawings and step-by-step descriptions of hand positions and movements. Helpful and interesting information is proficed about the origins of signs as well as the correct usage of signs in context.
Included in this manual are sections on the history of sign language and fingerspelling, the art of signing, language patterns of signs, and an illustrated guide for fingerspelling.
The author's original publications 'The American sing Language' (1961) was later illustrated and became 'Talk To The Deaf' (1963), still a best-selling manual of signs. 'The Joy Of Signing is a completely revised and greatly expanded manual based on the author's original publications. In its First Edition it sold over 650,000. In this Second Edition, material has been updated, new entries added, and an Appendix included that gives the new signer helpful information on making sign communication more understandable to deaf people.
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