Grayson makes Sign Language accessible, easy, and fun with this comprehensive primer to the techniques, words, and phrases of signing.
Throughout the book, informative insets focus on fascinating aspects of deaf history, deaf culture, and significant deaf personalities..
The remaining chapters provide over 1,700 words and phrases.
After examining the fascinating history and nature of both Sign Language and the deaf community, Talking with Your Hands explains signing basics, covering such topics as handshapes, fingerspelling, signing etiquette, and more.
Along with the images are step-by-step instructions for forming the sign, as well as a helpful Visualize tip that connects the Sign with its meaning for easier recall.
Each word or phrase is accompanied by a photo or series of photos that show hand and body motions and facial expressions.
Using almost 1,400 photographs, he has created a comprehensive primer to the techniques, words, and phrases of signing.
Gabriel Grayson has put together a book that makes signing accessible, easy, and fun.
It is American Sign Language (ASL), the Language of the deaf.
It has its own beauty, its own unmistakable form, and its own inherent culture.
Over 22 million people use it to communicate.
After English and Spanish, it is the third most common Language in North America. 800 illustrative photos.
Grayson makes Sign Language accessible, easy, and fun with this comprehensive primer to the techniques, words, and phrases of signing
