The Everything Sign Language Book: American Sign Language Made Easy (Everything Series)

By Irene Duke

Book Overview

Discover the intricacies of American Sign Language with this comprehensive, essential guide to learning the basics of sign language.

The appeal of American Sign Language (ASL) has extended beyond the Deaf community into the mainstream--it's even popular as a class in high school and college. You are guided through the basics of ASL with clear instruction and more than 300 illustrations. With a minimum of time and effort, you will learn to sign: the ASL alphabet; questions and common expressions; numbers, money, and time. With info on signing etiquette, communicating with people in the Deaf community, and using ASL to aid child development, this book makes signing fun for the entire family.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598698834
• ISBN13: 9781598698831
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Everything
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.9" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

excellent product, textbook quality

I am taking a sign language class and my instructor uses this book as her text. It is a great book and I have even heard of people using it on their own to learn! Some of the signs are outdated but I think there is a new edition coming out this year. In addition to signs, sentences, fingerspelling and structure, this book teaches some deaf culture which is very useful when learning sign language. Excellent product!

The Everything Sign Language Book

An excellent source of material for those wishing to communicate effectively with the hearing impaired. Easy to follow and learn. Recommended.

A must have for any ASL Student

This book is very easy to use. All the photographs are large and easy to understand. I am actually taking ASL from Irene Duke at Massasoit Community College in Brockton, MA and she and her deaf son have told us about the problems she had to go through to communicate and how glad she is to have written this book. This book has taught me so much a must have!!!!