Signing for Dummies - Brossura

Penilla, Adan R., II; Taylor, Angela Lee

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0764554360 ISBN 13: 9780764554360

Casa editrice: For Dummies, 2003

Riassunto

An illustrated resource covers ASL grammar and syntax, outlines deaf culture etiquette, and provides on the accompanying CD-ROM video demonstrations of common words and phrases. Original.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Adan R. Penilla, II is President of the Colorado Registry of Interpreters, Pikes Peak Affiliate. He has his NAD IV interpreting certification and his legal qualification. In 1995, he was an interpreter at the World Federation of the Deaf in Vienna and is currently teaching ASL at Trinidad State Junior College. He has written an ASL Quick Study Bar Chart and WW II for the Deaf. He lectures on Sign language throughout the United States and is currently working on his PhD.

Angela Lee Taylor is the Interpreter Coordinator at the Colorado Springs School for the Deaf and Blind. She was born deaf and is a native of Dixon, Illinois. Taylor graduated from Illinois School for the Deaf in 1985 and later received her bachelor's degree from Gallaudet University in 1997. During the past five years, Taylor has taught ASL for Pikes Peak Community College, Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind, and the community. Taylor has annually coordinated for the statewide Deaf and Hard of Hearing Symposium for four years running. She is a tutor for the shared Reading Project (SRP) and is also involved with ASLTAC. Taylor resides in Pueblo, Colorado.

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"As an ASL teacher . . . I love the complete and simple layout of this book."
?Don Cabbage, PhD, author, International Sign Language Series

Filled with hundreds of detailed illustrations

"This book really caught my attention. Everyone should read the chapter on Deaf Etiquette."
?Dr. Neal Weaver, President Louisiana Baptist University

Want to discover more about ASL? This friendly guide explains the basics you need to start communicating right away, from proper handshapes and body language to vocabulary and grammar. With the conversations in the book and on the CD-ROM, you?ll build your skills for use in the home, office, and out and about town.

All this on the bonus CD-ROM:

• Pick up Signing the easy way ?through actual conversations
• Features demonstrations by ASL Signers
• Allows you to see ASL in action
• Reinforces lessons from the book

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: For Dummies
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0764554360
• ISBN 13: 9780764554360
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 358
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile