{"title":"Sign Language","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"everything-sign-language-book-everything-series","title":"Everything Sign Language Book (Everything Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplains basic communication using American Sign Language, including proper handshapes, body language, signing etiquette, and communicating with the hearing impaired., ISBN13: 9781580628822 ISBN10: 1580628826 Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46111766839459,"sku":"TN_STR_H00007FX","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/91gBfqYUijL.jpg?v=1754639574"},{"product_id":"signing-for-kids-perigee","title":"Signing for Kids (Perigee)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first signing manual written for kids, this invaluable learning guide is created especially foreight to fourteen-year-olds. Presented in an easy-to-fo llow, more detailed, larger format, Signing for Kids is arranged by general subject area. Included among the subjects are: a manual alphabet; pets\/animals; snacks\/food; sports\/school; family\/friends; money\/numbers, and much more. A helpful \"How to Use This Book\" section is also included., ISBN13: 9780399516726 ISBN10: 0399516727 Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46124939608227,"sku":"TN_STR_H00006MX","price":11.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/91B08yL5VrL.jpg?v=1754832885"},{"product_id":"learning-american-sign-language-beginning-and-intermediate-levels-1-2","title":"Learning American Sign Language: Beginning and Intermediate, Levels 1-2","description":"American Sign Language is a rich and complex language. Recently declared as an official language and recognized by 48 states as a foreign language, more and more high school teachers across the country are teaching American Sign Language as an elective.\n\nLearning American Sign Language: Levels I \u0026amp; II – Beginning \u0026amp;Intermediate is designed to prepare teachers to successfullyinteract with American Sign Language (ASL) users. Lessons are structured around language needed for common-life situations, and examples are presented in the form of dialogues coupled with grammar and vocabulary instruction. Information is also included about the culture of deaf people in the United States.\n\nLearners will discover that the book: Contains lessons designed around the conversational language needed for common life situations. Illustrates hundreds of sentences and vocabulary with over 2,000 high quality colorized drawings that aid in study and memory. Contains over 100 grammar and cultural notes, 72 exercises, and charts of the American Manual Alphabet (Finger spelling) and ASL number system. Teaches the rules of ASL in a natural order that is predictable and compatible with everyday language of native users of American Sign Language. Incorporates information about the cultural lives of Deaf people in the United States. Is supported by a video demonstrating all the conversations and important structures in the text.\nOrder the Video!\nVideo to Accompany American Sign Language, 2\/e\nOrder No. 0-205-27554-0\nAmerican Sign Language students will find themselves captivated and entertained by this state-of-the-art Video that presents all 72 dialogues and each key structure from the text in a clear and natural way. Four internationally known Deaf actors animate the dialogues bringing life to the illustrations in the text allowing students to preview and review instructional materials at home to enhance their classroom learning.\n\nAbout the authors:\n\nTom Humphries is Associate Director of the Teacher Education Program and also teaches in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. He is currently coordinating a program to train teachers of deaf children using a bilingual approach. Prior to this he taught at Gallaudet University in the Department of English for several years and later served as an Associate Dean for the San Diego Community College District where he coordinated the development of an ASL program and an interpreter-training program. He holds a Ph.D. in Cross Cultural Communication and Language Learning. Dr. Humphries is co-author with Carol Padden of Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture and several other books and articles related to ASL and the culture of Deaf people.\n\nCarol Padden is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego where she teachers courses on language, culture and media. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California, San Diego. Her recent research includes studies of reading development in young deaf children and she has written extensively about the cultural lives of Deaf people in the United States. She received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, in addition to numerous other awards and grants for her work. In addition to the books she has co-authored with Tom Humphries, she has published several other books and articles on American Sign Language structure. Humphries \u0026amp; Padden (Learning American Sign Language, 2e)., ISBN13: 9780205275533 ISBN10: 0205275532 Material Type: spiral_bound","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46126588395683,"sku":"U1.7.4-K_STR_H00007RX","price":78.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/81oKtO5pZ0L.jpg?v=1754894948"},{"product_id":"sign-language-made-simple-a-complete-introduction-to-american-sign-language","title":"Sign Language Made Simple: A Complete Introduction to American Sign Language","description":"\u003cp\u003eSign Language Made Simple will include five Parts:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePart One: an introduction, how to use this book, a brief history of signing and an explanation of how signing is different from other languages, including its use of non-manual markers (the use of brow, mouth, etc in signing.)\u003cbr\u003e\nPart Two: Fingerspelling: the signing alphabet illustrated, the relationship between signing alphabet and ASL signs\u003cbr\u003e\nPart Three: Dictionary of ASL signs: concrete nouns, abstractions, verbs, describers, other parts of speech-approx. 1,000 illustrations. Will also include instructions for non-manual markers, where appropriate.\u003cbr\u003e\nPart Four: Putting it all together: sentences and transitions, includes rudimentary sentences and lines from poems, bible verses, famous quotes-all illustrated. Also, grammatical aspects, word endings, tenses.\u003cbr\u003e\nPart Five: The Humor of Signing: puns, word plays and jokes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSign Language Made Simple will have over 1,200 illustrations, be easy to use, fun to read and more competitively priced than the competition. It's a knockout addition to the Made Simple list., ISBN13: 9780385488570 ISBN10: 0385488572 Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46132476641443,"sku":"15.24_KUTU 23 -mayis_19","price":9.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/61Yxpc9wGzL.jpg?v=1759379117"}],"url":"https:\/\/usedbookdepot.com\/collections\/sign-language.oembed","provider":"Used Book Depot","version":"1.0","type":"link"}