Talking with Your Hands, Listening with Your Eyes: A Complete Photographic Guide

Description: Talking with Your Hands, Listening with Your Eyes: A Complete Photographic Guide to American Sign Language by Gabriel Grayson, Gabriel Gryson Grayson makes sign language accessible, easy, and fun with this comprehensive primer to the techniques, words, and phrases of signing. 800 illustrative photos. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description After English and Spanish, it is the third most common language in North America. Over 22 million people use it daily to communicate. It has its own beauty, its own unmistakable form, and its own inherent culture. It is American Sign Language (ASL), the language of the deaf. NowGabriel Grayson, teacher extraordinaire, has put together a book that makes signing accessible, easy, and fun. Using almost 1,400 photographs, he has created a comprehensive primer to the techniques, words, and phrases of signing. Each word or phrase is accompanied by a photo or series of photos that show hand and body motions and facial expressions. 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 memorizatic and recall. Taking With Your Hands begins by examining the fascinating history and nature of both sign language and the deaf community. Next, the book explains the basics of signing, covering such important topics as handshapes fingerspelling, signing etiquette, and more. The remaining sixteen chapters provide over 1,700 words and phrases. Throughout the book, informative insets focus on fascinating aspects of deaf history, deaf culture, and significant deaf personalities. Whether you view sign language as an essential means of communication, or you are simply interested in the world of silent music and visual poetry that this unique language provides, you'll find this book a perfect guide to understanding, duplicating, and remembering the vocabulary of ASL. Open these pages, and surrender your senses to a visually rich language in which you "talk" with your hands and "listen" with your eyes. Author Biography Chairperson of the Department of Sign Language at New School University in New York City. Author of the best-selling Talking With Your Hands, Listening With Your Eyes. Table of Contents Acknowledgments The Models Preface How to Use This Book Introduction What Causes Deafness? The Telecommunications Relay Service 1. The Basics Readings About Deaf Culture 2. Conversing--Common & Polite Phrases Baby Talk The Missing Articles The Pause That Refreshes Assisted Listening 3. Pronouns, People, & Relationships Helen Keller Growing Up With Deaf Parents 4. Actions When Actions Speak Louder Than Words Alexander Graham Bell 5. Home & Clothing Feeling at Home in a World Without Sound How Do Deaf People Use the Telephone? How Do Deaf People Watch Television? 6. Mealtime & Food The Rise of Hearing Loss Among Young People 7. Numbers, Math Terms, Quantity & Money 8. Days of the Week & Time 9. Seasons, Animals, Nature & Weather Hearing Ear Dogs for the Deaf Internet Users Go Bananas for Koko Understanding Ushers Syndrome Alerting the Hard of Hearing About the Weather 10. School & Education Building Brain Power With Sign Language How Do Hearing Tests Work? Websites to Rely On 11. Careers, Jobs & the Workplace Marlee Matlin Ludwig van Beethoven Technology Opens Career Doors Becoming a Sign Language Interpreter Ear Cell Transplants The Warmth and Openness of the Deaf 12. Sports & Leisure William Hoy In the Huddle The USA Deaf Sports Federation The National Theater of the Deaf The World of the Deaf in the Movies 13. Location, Direction & Travel Is Sign Language Universal? Redefining "Disability"--Deafness on Marthas Vineyard Heather Whitestone 14. Cities, States, Countries, & Governments Gestuno: The "International" Sign Language, 278 Where Are You?, 279 Body Language: A Cultural Perspective, 282 How Many Languages Are Spoken in the World?, 287 The Americans With Disabilities Act, 290 15. The Body & Health The Ear and Hearing Cochlear Implants The Importance of Early Detection of Hearing Impairment What Is Tinnitus? 16. Religion & Holidays 17. Descriptions, Thoughts & Emotions Is There a Sign for Every English Word? Dream a Little Dream Index Review The format and content of Graysons guide totally demystify the process of learning sign language...Graysons vast experience as a sign language teacher shines forth in this outstanding book." Prizes Commended for Benjamin Franklin Award (Reference Boty) 2004 Review Quote "The format and content of Graysons guide totally demystify the process of learning sign language...Graysons vast experience as a sign language teacher...shines forth in this outstanding book...[an] invaluable resource." Introduction or Preface According to a National Center for Health Statistics estimate, 28 million Americans--almost 10 percent of the population--have a hearing loss of some degree. Of these 28 million people, about 2 million are classified as deaf; that is, they cant hear speech or everyday sounds, even with the use of a hearing aid. And of these 2 million, about 10 percent were born without the ability to hear; the other 90 percent lost their hearing later in life. American Sign Language (ASL) is the natural language of approximately 500,000 deaf people in the United States and Canada. A "natural" language, in linguistic terms, is one thats learned as a first language in childhood. Not all deaf people learn ASL as their first language. Some use it as a second language, while others use very little ASL, if any. On the other hand, many hearing people are fluent signers, and more hearing people are registering every day to learn ASL in high school and college classes. In recent years, sign language has experienced such a tremendous increase in popularity that an estimated 13 million people can sign with some level of proficiency. This makes ASL the third most commonly used language in the United States! The most widespread misconception about American Sign Language is the belief that its a signed version of English. In fact, ASL is not English at all. Instead, its a distinct language with its own grammar and syntax. Yet its as capable as English or any other spoken language of communicating complex and abstract ideas. For deaf people who use ASL, their common language is more than a means of communication. Its also a source of great pride and cultural unity. THE HISTORY OF SIGN LANGUAGE To truly understand the deaf experience in todays America, we need to look to the past. Historically, as a minority group, deaf people have faced great adversity in attaining their basic civil rights. In ancient times, Aristotle and other philosophers claimed that people could learn only by hearing spoken words. As a result, the accepted belief among many cultures was that deaf people did not have the capacity to learn, and so were not entitled to any rights under the law. The deaf were forced into inferior social positions or labeled "non-persons" by law. Most of the time, deaf people were not permitted to marry or to own property. In some cultures, they were even assigned to the care of a guardian. Aristotles words went unchallenged until the 1500s. Then, as the Renaissance spread through Europe, new ideas emerged about the intellectual potential of the deaf. The revival of learning and experimentation characteristic of the times inspired a few pioneering scholars in different countries to make the first serious attempts to educate the deaf. Their separate successes changed beliefs about deafness that had endured for nearly 2,000 years, and helped pave the way for the development of a standard language of signs. But many years would pass before sign language was widely accepted as a means of communication and education for the deaf. The Development of Deaf Education An Italian physician named Geronimo Cardano was one of the first known scholars to recognize that hearing is not essential to the learning process. In the 1500s, he announced that deaf people could be educated through the written word. Believing that "the mute can hear by reading and speak by writing," Cardano tried using a code of symbols to teach his own deaf son. At about the same time in Spain, Pedro Ponce de Leon, a Benedictine monk, showed much success in educating the deaf sons of Spanish noble families. He taught the boys how to read, write, and even speak so that they would be permitted to inherit their familys property. The earlier successes of Cardano and Ponce de Leon inspired Juan Pablo de Bonet, also a Spanish monk, to use his own variation of proven methods in teaching the deaf. Bonet used not just reading, writing, and speechreading as tools for education, but also a manual alphabet, in which a series of handshapes represented the various speech sounds. In 1620, Bonet published the first book on instructional methods for teaching deaf people, which included his manual alphabet. Despite the successes of Bonet and his predecessors, organized education for the deaf was virtually nonexistent until the 1750s. At that time, Abb Details ISBN075700007X Author Gabriel Gryson Short Title TALKING W/YOUR HANDS L Pages 392 Publisher Square One Publishers Language English ISBN-10 075700007X ISBN-13 9780757000072 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 419 Illustrations Yes Year 2003 Publication Date 2003-02-28 Imprint Square One Publishers Place of Publication Garden City Park, NY Country of Publication United States Edition 1st Residence New York City Subtitle A Complete Photographic Guide to American Sign Language DOI 10.1604/9780757000072 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:8667638;

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