The joy of signing : the illustrated guide for mastering sign language and the manual alphabet

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The work The joy of signing : the illustrated guide for mastering sign language and the manual alphabet represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The joy of signing : the illustrated guide for mastering sign language and the manual alphabet

Title remainder

the illustrated guide for mastering sign language and the manual alphabet

Statement of responsibility

Lottie L. Riekehof

Creator

• Riekehof, Lottie L

Subject

• American Sign Language
• Deaf -- Means of communication
• Deaf -- Means of communication
• Deaf Collection.
• Langage par signes
• American Sign Language
• Sign language
• Sign language
• Sourds -- Moyens de communication
• Sign Language

Genre

• Deaf Collection.

Language

• eng
• sgn
• eng

Summary

This is a guide for mastering the current basic signs used to communicate with deaf people in either the word order of the English language or in the American Sign Language pattern. It provides the basic vocabulary needed for persons entering interpreter training programs. Over 1500 signs have been illustrated and are grouped by chapter into their natural categories. Includes line drawings and step-by-step descriptions of positions and movements, information about the origins of signs, as well as the correct usage of signs in context

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

419

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HV2474

LC item number

.R53 1987

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

HV 2474

NLM item number

R555j 1987