Product Description: In Sign Language Interpreting (SLI) there is a great need for a volume devoted to classic and seminal articles and essays dedicated to this specific domain of language interpreting. Students, educators, and practitioners will benefit from having access to a collection of historical and influential articles that contributed to the progress of the global SLI profession...read more

Product Description: The noun is an apparent cross-linguistic universal; nouns are central targets of language acquisition; they are frequently prototypical exemplars of Saussurian arbitrariness. This volume considers nouns in sign languages and in the evanescent performances of homesigners (and gesturers), which exhibit considerable iconic motivation...read more

Product Description: This collection brings together innovative research and approaches for blended learning using digital technology in interpreter education for signed and spoken languages. Volume editors Suzanne Ehrlich and Jemina Napier call upon the expertise of 21 experts, including themselves, to report on the current technology used to provide digital enhancements to interpreter education in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Belgium, the United Kingdom, and the United States...read more

This comprehensive guide to American Sign Language features more than 3,500 separate signs, a step-by-step approach to signing, and exercises and drills to increase speed and understanding

Product Description: The Third Volume in the Interpreter Education SeriesThe latest addition to the Interpreter Education series expands the tools available to instructors with six new, vital chapters on new curricula and creative teaching methods. Series editor Cynthia B...read more

Product Description: Beginnings is a book that will teach children to associate workds with signing symbols. This is an excellent book for new students with no prior experience in signing. The format was carefully constructed so children would not find it frustrating, ergo resulting in greater success for the child...read more

Product Description: Beginnings is a book that will teach children to associate workds with signing symbols. This is an excellent book for new students with no prior experience in signing. The format was carefully constructed so children would not find it frustrating, ergo resulting in greater success for the child...read more

This comprehensive guide to American Sign Language features more than 3,500 separate signs, a step-by-step approach to signing, and exercises and drills to increase speed and understanding

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Product Description: SIGNS OF SHARING is a unique set of materials that provides educators whose responsibilities include the integration of hearing-impaired children, with a multifaceted tool to teach sign language and deaf awareness. Included is an initial section on mainstreaming deaf children in regular classrooms which is followed by a section on deaf awareness that provides complete information, goals, necessary materials, and step-by-step activities for a class to learn by the hands-on approach...read more

Product Description: The author uses strong theoretical and practical arguments to show that deaf children can and should acquire language just as hearing children do, provided they experience the same conditions all children need in order to learn to speak...read more

This book provides a study of the communication and culture of deaf people, particularly among a community of the deaf in Britain. The authors' goal is to inform educators, psychologists, linguists, and professionals working with deaf people about the rich language the deaf have developed for themselves--a language of movement and space, of the hands and the eyes, of abstract communication as well as iconic story-telling. Early chapters discuss the history of sign language use, its social aspects and the issues surrounding the language acquisition of deaf children. The book's core examines the linguistic and psychological study of British Sign Language and compares and contrasts it with other signed languages. The book concludes with an examination of the applications of sign language research, particularly to education. (view table of contents)