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Megan is excited when Cindy moves into her neighborhood -- maybe she'll finally have a best friend. Sure enough, the two girls quickly become inseparable. Cindy even starts to learn sign language so they can communicate more easily. But when they go away to summer camp together, problems arise. Cindy feels left out, because Megan is spending all of her time with Lizzie, another deaf girl; Megan resents that... (more)

A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family

A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family

by Lou Ann Walker

From the time she was a toddler, Lou Ann Walker was the ears and voice for her deaf parents. Their family life was warm and loving, but outside the home, they faced a world that misunderstood and often rejected them. "A fascinating personal testament."--Chicago Sun Times Book Review

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Conversational Sign Language Illustrated (The Complete Idiot's Guide)

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Conversational Sign Language Illustrated (The Complete Idiot's Guide)

by Carole Lazorisak

How to say it in sign. With over 600 photos and an instructional DVD. Focusing on the popular Contact Signing mode (formerly referred as Pidgin Sign Language), this is the perfect guide to the fundamentals of communicating through sign in a variety of everyday situations. Inside, readers will discover how to sign for small talk, emotions, directions, weather, family and friends, special occasions, recreation,... (more)

Hurt Go Happy

by Ginny Rorby

Thirteen-year-old Joey Willis is used to being left out of conversations. Though she’s been deaf since the age of six, Joey’s mother has never allowed her to learn sign language. She strains to read the lips of those around her, but often fails. Everything changes when Joey meets Dr. Charles Mansell and his baby chimpanzee, Sukari. Her new friends use sign language to communicate, and Joey secretly begins to... (more)

Sign Language Conversations for Beginning Signers (Sign Language Materials)

Sign Language Conversations for Beginning Signers (Sign Language Materials)

by Jane Schneider, Kathy Kifer

Of Sound Mind

by Jean Ferris

A poignant novel partially set in a world of silence Tired of interpreting for his deaf family and resentful of their reliance on him, high school senior Theo finds support and understanding from Ivy, a new student who also has a deaf parent.

American Sign Language Dictionary

by Martin L. A. Sternberg

An illustrated abridgment of the most authoritative reference book on sign language, with well-written and easily understood instructions for the use of each sign. More than 5,000 signs and 8,000 illustrations. And now includes more than 500 new signs and 1,500 new illustrations.

A Basic Course in Manual CommunicationCommunicative Skills Program

A Basic Course in Manual Communication

by Communicative Skills Program

The Gallaudet Dictionary of American Sign Language

The Gallaudet Dictionary of American Sign Language

More than 3,000 ASL Sign Illustrations Fully Searchable Full-Color DVD Featuring Every Sign Special ASL Classifier Section Complete Index of English Synonyms for Every Sign Created by an unparalleled board of experts led by renowned ASL linguist and poet Clayton Valli, The Gallaudet Dictionary of American Sign Language represents the culmination of more than five years of meticulous assessment and labor.... (more)

A Man Without Words

by Susan Schaller, Oliver Sacks

For more than a quarter of a century, Ildefonso, a Mexican Indian, lived in total isolation, set apart from the rest of the world. He wasn't a political prisoner or a social recluse, he was simply born deaf and had never been taught even the most basic language. Susan Schaller, then a twenty- four- year-old graduate student, encountered him in a class for the deaf where she had been sent as an... (more)

Talking With Your Hands, Listening With Your Eyes: A Complete Photographic Guide to American Sign Language

Talking With Your Hands, Listening With Your Eyes: A Complete Photographic Guide to American Sign Language

by Gabriel Grayson

TALKING WITH YOUR HANDS LISTENING

The American Sign Language Handshape Dictionary

The American Sign Language Handshape Dictionary

by Richard A. Tennant

This reference complements other American Sign Language (ASL) dictionaries by organizing signs by handshape rather than alphabetically by English word order. In so doing, it acts best as a recognition tool for the ASL learner, leading the user quickly to specific signs without having first to refer to an English-equivalent word. Multiple meanings of a single sign also allow deaf people to increase their English... (more)

The American Sign Language Phrase Book

by Louie J. Fant

The American Sign Language Phrase Book functions as both an instant reference tool and a long-term study guide for those interested in understanding and utilizing ASL.

American Sign Language Green Books, A Student's Text Units 1-9 (Green Book Series)Dennis Cokely, Charlotte Baker

American Sign Language Green Books, A Student's Text Units 1-9 (Green Book Series)

by Dennis Cokely, Charlotte Baker

Random House Webster's American Sign Language Computer Dictionary

Random House Webster's American Sign Language Computer Dictionary

by Elaine Costello

The second in a series of specialized language dictionaries, Random House Webster's American Sign Language Computer Dictionary extends Random House Webster's established, successful sign language reference line into the world of computers, the Internet, e-mail, and the World Wide Web. This unique compilation of ASL signs is the ideal, up-to-date reference tool -- providing access to cyberspace for members of... (more)

Random House Webster's American Sign Language Legal Dictionary

Random House Webster's American Sign Language Legal Dictionary

by Elaine Costello

The only dictionary of its kind, Random House Webster's American Sign Language Legal Dictionary is sure to become the definitive ASL reference for legal matters from criminal law to real estate. Whether it is used in the courtroom, classroom, office, or home, Elaine Costello's unrivaled dictionary bridges language gaps in legal matters between the deaf community and their families, colleagues, and community. The... (more)

American Sign Language Green Books, A Student's Text Units 10-18 (American Sign Language Series)

American Sign Language Green Books, A Student's Text Units 10-18 (American Sign Language Series)

by Charlotte Baker-Shenk

Fingerspelling in American Sign LanguageBrenda E. Cartwright, Suellen J. Bahleda

Fingerspelling in American Sign Language

by Brenda E. Cartwright, Suellen J. Bahleda

Seeing Voices (Vintage)

by Oliver Sacks

"This book will shake your preconceptions about the deaf, about language and about thought--. Sacks <is> one of the finest and most thoughtful writers of our time."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat , this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture. In Seeing Voices ,... (more)

Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World

by Leah Hager Cohen

This portrait of New York's Lafayette School for the Deaf is not just a work of journalism. It is also a memoir, since Leah Hager Cohen grew up on the school's campus and her father is its superintendent. As a hearing person raised among the deaf, Cohen appreciates both the intimate textures of that silent world and the gulf that separates it from our own.

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by Marlee Matlin

by Lou Ann Walker

by Carole Lazorisak

by Ginny Rorby

by Jane Schneider, Kathy Kifer

by Jean Ferris

by Martin L. A. Sternberg

by Communicative Skills Program

by Susan Schaller, Oliver Sacks

by Gabriel Grayson

by Richard A. Tennant

by Louie J. Fant

by Dennis Cokely, Charlotte Baker

by Elaine Costello

by Elaine Costello

by Charlotte Baker-Shenk

by Brenda E. Cartwright, Suellen J. Bahleda

by Oliver Sacks

by Leah Hager Cohen