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English
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"I love you." "What can I get you?" "Let's take a walk."Wanting to say simple things like these but not being able to is frustrating and disheartening—but learning how to communicate can be easy and fun! This book is a basic guide to the alphabet, vocabulary, and techniques it takes to connect using American Sign Language. Whether signing out of necessity or learning for the sake of growing, you will enjoy this practical primer. After reading
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Series
Publisher
Knack
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
While learning a new language isn't a "knack" for everyone, Knack American Sign Language finally makes it easy. The clear layout, succinct information, and topic-specific sign language partnered with high-quality photos enable quick learning. By a "bilingual" author whose parents were both deaf, and photographed by a design professor at the leading deaf university, Gallaudet, it covers all the basic building blocks of communication. It does so with...
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Moses and his schoolmates, all deaf, attend a concert where the orchestra's percussionist is also deaf. Includes illustrations in sign language and a page showing the manual alphabet.
10) Hands & hearts
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Highlights the bond between a mother and her child while providing a gentle introduction to sign language during their day at the beach"--
11) Hoggee
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Always overshadowed by his competitive older brother, especially in their work as mule drivers on the Erie Canal, fourteen-year-old Howard finally finds the courage to pursue his dreams of becoming an educator after he learns about sign language and teaches it to his deaf friend in nineteenth-century New York State.
12) Set me free
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Three years after being kidnapping from her home in Martha's Vineyard, fourteen-year-old Mary Lambert receives a letter from Nora O'Neal, a servant in the house where she was held, who tells her of an eight-year-old girl where she is now employed whom Nora believes to be a deaf-mute, but who is being treated as insane, and asks Mary to come and teach the nameless child; a little scared, but intrigued, and bored with domestic life, Mary agrees--only...
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
For people who are deaf, learning language is different. Many learn sign language to let people know what they are thinking or feeling. They motion with their hands, faces, and bodies to communicate? Readers will learn the history of sign language, how it is used today, and how it is the first language for a special fourth-grade girl.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club volume 16
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Feeling isolated as the only African American in her sixth grade class, Jessi gains a sense of belonging by participating in the Baby-sitters Club, learning sign language in order to communicate with a deaf child, and dancing in a ballet.
15) Give me a sign
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lilah is stuck in the middle. At least, that's what having a hearing loss seems like sometimes--when you don't feel "deaf enough" to identify as Deaf or hearing enough to meet the world's expectations. But this summer, Lilah is ready for a change. When Lilah becomes a counselor at a summer camp for the deaf and blind, her plan is to brush up on her ASL. Romance was never on the agenda, and Lilah's not positive Isaac likes her that way. But all signs...
16) Show me a sign
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Mary Lambert has always felt safe and protected on her beloved island of Martha's Vineyard. Her great-great-grandfather was an early English settler and the first deaf islander. Now, in 1805, over a hundred years later, many people there -- including Mary -- are deaf, and nearly everyone can communicate in sign language. Mary has never felt isolated. She is proud of her lineage. But recent events have delivered winds of change. Mary's brother died,...
17) Signing for kids
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the expressive language of the deaf, organized by subject areas, including Pets, People, Numbers, Sports, Travel, Science, Thoughts and Feelings, and Places.
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