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Wednesday, September 18, 2002
American Sign Language Made Easy
The Guide
for Beginners
Learning American Sign Language (ASL) just got easier! Based on the bestselling
American Sign Language
Handshape Dictionary,
The American Sign Language Handshape Starter is designed to be a first
book for learning ASL. Readers will find more than 800 signs
with which to build their signing vocabulary. The Handshape Starter is
arranged into twenty different topic areas, with the signs organized by handshape rather than in alphabetical order. This unique format allows users to
search for a sign they recognize but whose meaning they don’t know. This handy
reference will be especially helpful to new sign language students, parents, and
others who want to learn the nation's third most popular language.
The Handshape Starter also includes an index of all the English words
arranged in alphabetical order that correspond to the signs in the book. Take advantage of your
exclusive subscriber discount and
order The
American Sign Language Handshape Starter.
  The
Hands are the Head of the Mouth: The Mouth as Articulator in Sign
Languages and Tactile
Sign Language: Turn taking and Questions in Signed Conversations of Deaf-Blind
People are the latest books to be added to the
Signum Verlag
series. The Hands are the Head of the Mouth stems from a workshop held at
the University of Leiden, in The Netherlands, in December 1998 on the use of the
mouth in European sign languages. Presentations and discussion at the workshop covered a
wide range of issues at the heart of research on mouth patterns. Tactile Sign
Language describes how turn-taking and interrogative sentences are marked in
tactile sign language. Deaf-blind signers are in continuous contact by holding
one another’s hands in monologue or dialogue position. In tactile conversation,
nonmanual characteristics, the essential markers in visual sign languages, are
effectively replaced by various hand movements. Read the introduction to
The Hands are the Head of the Mouth and
Tactile Sign Language and order your copies of
The Hands are the Head of the
Mouth
and Tactile Sign Language.
 Disability
Studies Quarterly recently praised Robert Newby’s
version of King Midas, stating, “This
book offers a charming retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s original tale with
selected sentences shown in American Sign Language.”
The reviewer continues with, “For
families with a child who is deaf and those interested in learning American Sign
Language, this is a wonderful book....The illustrations in the book, by Dawn
Majewski and Sandra Cozzolino, are excellent. Facial expressions of signs are
clearly portrayed as is some very artistic signing such as the sun streaming
through a window.”
Read
the review in its entirety
here. You can
also view a clip
from the videotape and place your
order for King Midas here.
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