AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE (ASL)

BOOKS & VIDEOS

at Solvay Public Library

 

 

You can order these and other items online at www.onlib.org.

 

Children’s Books

 

Talking Hands Set (2005, 2006).  J419.7 PET

English/Spanish language books with ASL vocabulary for following themes:


 

·    At school 

·    At work

·    Family and Friends

·    Holidays and celebrations

·    Questions and answers

·    Animals

·    Colors and shapes

·    Feelings and emotions

·    Food

·    Home

·    Seasons


 

 

Fain, Kathleen. Handsigns :  a sign language alphabet. (1993) J417 FAI

 

Heller, Lora.  Sign language for kids. (2004)  J419.7 HEL

 

Kent, Deborah.  American Sign Language.  (2003).  J419 KEN

SUMMARY:   Explores the history of American Sign Language and deaf culture, including ongoing controversies within the deaf community today.

 

Kramer, Jackie. You can learn sign language! :  more than 300 words in pictures. (1999)  J419 KRA

       

Rankin, Laura.  The handmade alphabet (1991).  J419 RAN

 

Baby Signing

Fixell, Andrea.  Baby signing: how to talk with your baby in American sign

language   (2006).  419 FIX

 

Ault, Kelly. Let's sign! : every baby's guide to communicating with grownups.                                                      (2005)  J419.7 AUL

 

Books for Teens and Adults

 

Butterworth, Rod R. The Perigee visual dictionary of signing :  an A-to-Z guide to

over 1,250 signs of American Sign Language.  (1995)  419.22 PER

 

Cokely, Dennis. American sign language :  a student text.   (1980)  419 COK

       

Flodin, Mickey. Signing illustrated.  (2004) 419.7

 

Grayson, Gabriel. Talking with your hands, listening with your eyes : a complete

photographic guide to American Sign Language.   (2003)  419 GRA

 

Lazorisak, Carole. The complete idiot's guide to conversational sign language.                                                (2004)

 

Sternberg, Martin L. A. American Sign Language (1998)  419 STE

 

Wheeler, Cindy. More simple signs. (1998)  J419 WHE

       

Videocassettes and DVD’s

 

We Sign VideoCassette  Set (2001, 2002)    


 

·   Babies & toddlers

·   Animals

·   Colors

·   Numbers

·   Play Time

·   Rhymes

·   Patriotic songs


 

 

Say it by signing. [DVD] 2003   DVD 419

 

Blue's clues. All kinds of signs [videocassette] (2001) VC J BLU

       

I want to learn sign language. Volumes 1 & 2  [videocassette] (2001) VC J IWA

 

Getting started in signing [videocassette] (2000)   DVD 419 GET

       

Signing made easy: how to talk to a person who can't hear  [DVD] (1998) DVD 419HOW

     

 

Other deaf subject related books of interest:

 

Haughton, Emma. Living with deafness. (2000)  J 617.8 HAU

SUMMARY:   Explains the condition of deafness, its possible causes, and how it affects the everyday lives of those who are dealing with it.

 

Miller, R. H. (Robert Henry), Deaf hearing boy : a memoir (2004).  BIO Miller

SUMMARY:  A biography about a child of deaf parents.

 

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