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American Sign Language the Easy Way: Your Key to Learning by David A. Stewart. Barron's Educational Series, oversize paper. Contains all the essentials in one clear volume. Includes the use of "facial grammar" as a first step before one learns manual signing; the ten key grammatical rules of American Sign Language; material for practice sessions after every lesson; ASL and modern Deaf Culture; more than 800 line drawings to illustrate ASL signs; and 36 progressive lessons. 8.5" x 11". 474 pages.BTH-3182. $12.56-D

Wow!: Sign Language for Everyone. Garlic Press, 2005. This amazing little book with stiff paper cover wrapped around its spiral binding will wow those trying to learn sign language. By turning to a page and then tilting it forward according to the directions, the picture will move to show you how to make the sign. There are ten of these special pages with embedded lenticular lenses that show the animating motion of signing. The 20 contemporary signs in this book were chosen for their uniqueness. This book is great for teens and preteens who want to learn to sign such words as clueless, brilliant, gross, far out, cool, geek, and more. 20 pages. About 7 inches square. BTH-1442. $8.96-D

Signs for Me: A Basic Sign Vocabulary for Children, Parents, and Teachers by Ben Bahan and Joe Dannis. Teach American Sign Language to children with more than 300 essential signs, their English equivalents, and a picture “translation.” The index is trnslated into eight languages: ASL, Tagolog, English, Cambodian, Spanish, Lao, Hmong, and Vietnamese. 117 pages. $11.66-D

A Word in the Hand: A Basic Introduction to Sign Language in two volumes. Book One is a simple basic primer to Signed English It contains 15 lessons and over 500 illustrations. Each lesson provides vocabulary, illustrations, review, exercises, and assignments that beginning signers will enjoy. Vocabulary topics include colors, people, school, home, activities, toys, games, food, animals, transportation, nature, occupations, emotions, time, and clothing. 106 indexed pages, BTH-3954. $11.66-D

    A Word in the Hand: A Basic Introduction to Sign Book Two has the same format. It contains 84 pages, 10 lessons and over 300 illustrations. Vocabulary topics are holidays and special occasions, glue words and modifiers, medicine and health, numbers, adjectives, neighborhood, countryside, geography, food, and verbs.BTH-3955. $11.66-D. Books are 8 ½" by 11".

Finger Alphabet Lotto: This is a card matching game to teach the finger alphabet. Can be used by all ages. Must be shipped parcel post or priority. Weighs one pound with packaging. 6.95

Beginning Sign language Series. Even primary children can learn sign language from these bright, colorful books. Click on pictures to enlarge them.

Sign Language Literature Series -- 4.95 each

This series presents stories from different cultures in simple language, full illustration, and illustrated signs.

Basic Signing Flashcards

These are boxes flashcards which teach simple vocabulary and associated signs. 100 cards per box. 7.16-D each set. Please order these by phone, since they require a postage quote because they can't go at book rate and require either UPS or Priority Mail Shipping. See contact information at bottom of this page.

Each set includes words which have been chosen from basic sight and beginning vocabulary lists and combine with a beginning sign vocabulary.

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Braille for he Sighted: Beginning Braille by Jane Schneider and Kathy Kifer. This book explains the organization of Braille dots, how Braille was invented, and how people read and write in Braille. Although the book doesn't use raised dots in the text, since it's for sighted people, there is an alphabet for Braille on the back cover using the raised dots. The text of the book makes the raised dots bold so that the reader can actually learn to read the Braille language with his eyes and solve the various puzzles and games in the book. Might be interesting in studies of Louis Braille or Helen Keller as an enrichment activity. BTH-2551. $4.95*

 

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