The American Sign Language Handshape Puzzle Book


Book Description

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Index of Puzzles -- Introduction -- Easy Puzzles -- Medium Puzzles -- Difficult Puzzles -- Answers




108 Word Search Puzzles with the American Sign Language Alphabet


Book Description

This is the ultimate challenge for the truly fearless word search addicted who are looking for a new experience, or for fingerspelling aficionados eager to hone their craft. No matter what your fingerspelling ability level is - even if you have never tried it before: This puzzle collection is sure to provide you with many hours of fun!




The American Sign Language Puzzle Book


Book Description

An essential accompaniment to the bestselling The American Sign Language Phrase Book, The American Sign Language Puzzle Book is an entertaining way for anyone learning to sign to test and build his or her knowledge. Featuring topics such as Everyday Expressions, Health, Clothing, Numbers, Time, and Money, The American Sign Language Puzzle Book incorporates an engaging variety of puzzle types, including scramble puzzles, word searches, matching puzzles, and crosswords, which are all complemented by exceptionally clear and helpful illustrations.




The American Sign Language Handshape Starter


Book Description

Beginning signers can now improve their recognition of the most commonly used signs with this easy-to-follow handbook. Illustrates 800 common signs organized by topics including food, travel, family, sports and more. 800 illustrations.




Sign Language for Kids Activity Book


Book Description

Let your fingers do the talking--a hands-on guide to American Sign Language for kids American Sign Language is an amazing visual language that uses our hands, facial expressions, and body language to express ourselves to those who have difficulty hearing or speaking. Packed with colorful illustrations and reader-friendly descriptions, as well as plenty of on- and off-page activities, the Sign Language for Kids Activity Book will help you feel comfortable and confident signing in no time! The Sign Language for Kids Activity Book shows you how to communicate nonverbally through easy-to-follow diagrams of more than 180 signs, plus the signed alphabet and numbers 1-100. You'll master conversation basics, including commonly used phrases and everyday vocabulary. Then, you can try your hand at fun and unique exercises, games, and puzzles that will help you put together sentences, practice grammar, improve your memory of signs, and become the best signer you can be. Sign Language for Kids Activity Book includes: ASL in art--Illustrated diagrams and descriptions guide you through 180 signs for basic nouns, verbs, and adjectives for topics such as home, school, foods, and more. Say anything--Express yourself with helpful grammar practices in the Sign Language for Kids Activity Book, designed to teach you how to construct ASL sentences for conversations. Sign on--The Sign Language for Kids Activity Book gives you hands-on practice with 50 exercises, practice prompts, games, and activities designed to make signing and reading signs easy for anyone. Learn to communicate in a whole new way with the Sign Language for Kids Activity Book.




108 Word Search Puzzles with the American Sign Language Alphabet, Volume 06


Book Description

This is the ultimate challenge for the truly fearless word search addicted who are looking for a new experience, or for fingerspelling aficionados eager to hone their craft. No matter what your fingerspelling ability level is - even if you have never tried it before: This puzzle collection is sure to provide you with many hours of fun!




Sign Language Acquisition


Book Description

How children acquire a sign language and the stages of sign language development are extremely important topics in sign linguistics and deaf education, with studies in this field enabling assessment of an individual child’s communicative skills in comparison to others. In order to do research in this area it is important to use the right methodological tools. The contributions to this volume address issues covering the basics of doing sign acquisition research, the use of assessment tools, problems of transcription, analyzing narratives and carrying out interaction studies. It serves as an ideal reference source for any researcher or student of sign languages who is planning to do such work. This volume was originally published as a Special Issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 8:1/2 (2005)




Directions in Sign Language Acquisition


Book Description

This is the second volume in the series 'Trends in language acquisition research'. The unusual combination in one volume of reports on various different sign languages in acquisition makes this book quite unique.




A Descriptive Analysis of Adamorobe Sign Language (Ghana)


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Adamorobe, a small Akan village in Ghana, has an unusually high incidence of hereditary deafness. As a result, a sign language came into being, Adamorobe Sign Language (AdaSL), which is unrelated to any other sign language described so far and is assumed to be about 200 years old. The present study describes selected aspects of AdaSL, notably phonology, lexicon, the expression of size and shape and the encoding of motion events. A comparison of these aspects with descriptions of other sign languages reveals interesting cross-linguistic differences in the use of iconicity as well as in the use of space and classifier constructions. Data were collected during three periods of fieldwork of nine months in total. Moreover, this study considers to what extent the social setting may influence the development of structural features in sign languages. This investigation nuances the impact the visual-spatial modality has on sign language structure. The book is of interest to scholars of sign linguistics, African linguistics, as well as contact linguistics and Deaf studies.




Language Acquisition By Eye


Book Description

This volume explores the reading development of native speakers of sign language, as well as their early pre-literacy language development. For deafness and sign language scholars, as well as linguists and reading specialists.