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Books, CD-ROMs and Videotapes for Learning Sign
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Most of the information in this Web page is up-to-date as of 1996. To find more up-to-date information, you may want to use Web search engines.
(Contributed by stephen194@aol.com at 3 Aug 1994.)
Sign Languages Around the World
Compiled by Oliver K. Sandager
Published and Dist. by OK Publishing
North Hollywood
Calif 91605
USA
ISBN 0-9616615-0-X (First edition 1986)
22 countries; About 30 pages each country along with each alphabet with translation in five languages: English, Spanish, French, German and Russian.
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(Contributed by Andrew Wernette at 26 Sep 1995.)
I recommend "A Basic Course in American Sign Language" by Humphries, Padden and O'Rourke. ISBN # 0-932666-42-6.
I like the book because it teaches grammer as well as a large base of vocabulary. Despite what many 'hearing' think, ASL grammer is different from English.
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(Contributed by Andy Olson at 3 Oct 1995 and by Richard Berry at 13 Nov 1995.)
The best ASL on CD-ROM is the Martin Sternberg dictionary, published by . It has 2200 entries, a dictionary section, skills, ASL Overview, and fingerspelling sections. One of us personally has this on his computer, and thinks it is a wonderful program. This CD-ROM has good stuff especially for vocabulary (although regionalism's aren't really covered). The CD-ROM is really Martin Sternberg's paperback dictionary, layed out in an interactive CD-ROM format. The cost for the CD-ROM is $69.95, and it is available for Windows and Macs. You can see a description of this product at: .
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(Contributed by Lori Russell at 29 Nov 1995.)
I use Mickey Flodin's "Perigree Visual Dictionary of Signing". Every sign has a very good, detailed drawing, a description of the sign, and a memory aid (how the sign may have originated, etc), as well as it's usage in a sentence.
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(Contributed by Terry J. Wood at 19 Jan 1996.)
"Sign Language For Everyone" by .
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(Contributed by James Powell at 13 Jan 1996.)
Source of videotapes for ASL instructions (ask them for a free catalog):
Barr Productions
P.O.Box 685
Sun Prairie, WI 53590-0125
USA
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(Contributed by Abby Anderson at 9 Feb 1996.)
If you can afford it, I recommend "American Sign Language Dictionary" by Elaine Costello. It is printed by Random House. I've seen it priced from $50 to $65. But I think it is a better investment than other ASL dictionaries, because it got a lot more signs, and it was printed last year, I think.
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(Contributed by DeLores Wilson [now Lamb] at 15 Feb 1996.)
A book about Sign Language for scuba diving is called "Underwater Communication" and is available from Butte Publications at cost of $12.95 (plus $3.00 for shipping and handling). They accept Visa or Master Card. You can fax them at 503-693-9526 or write to them at: Butte Publications, P.O.Box 1328, Hillsboro, OR 97123.
The same publisher, which specializes in books for teachers and parents of deaf children as well as the deaf themselves, has also a set of two tape video and book called "ASL for Hearing Parents of Deaf Children".
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There is a book of signs for computer usage. Its details are as follows:
"Signs for Computing Terminology"
By Steven L. Jamison
Copyright (C) 1983 by National Association of the Deaf
ISBN 0-913072-63-X
The book is in paperback and has green cover.
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(Contributed by John Zehr at 28 Feb 1996.)
There is a series of videotapes called "Educational Terminology Series" and a stand-alove video called "Sign Language 101". they're produced by a company in Florence, Mississippi named Sign America. There are 9 tapes in the series ranging from Algebra terminology to other school-related terminology. They're very high quality. The instructor is Gil Magee, a director and instructor in a local college Interpreter Training program. He is a Comprehensively Skilled Certified intrepreter for the deaf.
For more details, contact Rick Beggerly at 800-690-0059.
A Web page with links to various ASL resources is .
BSL - British Sign Language
(Contributed by Stuart Grove at 3 Aug 1994, and by David Jackson at 27 Sep 1995.)
There are some good books but nothing can ever replace taking part in a BSL course. Books I recommend for you to get started:
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Sign and Say Books 1 and 2 published by the RNID, 105 Gower Street, LONDON, WC1E 6AH
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British Sign Language published by BBC Books, BBC Enterprises Limited, Woodlands, 80 Wood Lane, LONDON, W12 0TT
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Dictionary of British Sign Language/English
Compiled by British Deaf Association
ISBN 0-571-14346-6
Published by Faber and Faber Ltd.
3 Queen Square, LONDON, WC1N 3AU
- The Royal National Institute for Deaf People, Gower Street, London, have good introductory booklets.
Alternatively you can get most if not all of these books from The Forest Bookshop, 8 St John Street, Coleford, Gloucestershire, GL16 8AR - I would strongly advise you to get those BSL videos also from the same shop (BSL - A Beginner's Guide).
(Contributed by David Jackson at 27 Sep 1995.)
You can get the book "GESTUNO" from The Forest Bookshop - the dictionary costs fifteen pounds (about twenty dollars) and has 272 pages of 1470 international signs. It was published in 1975.
Dizionario dei Segni - La Lingua Dei Segni in 1,400 immagaini.
Author: Orazio Romeo
With intro by Prof. Gilbert C. Eastman (in Italian)
Price is about 30,000 Lira.
ISBN 8808078221
Publisher: Zanicelli, Bologna.
This information is up-to-date as of 30 Nov 1995.
Source of information:
Doug McLean
The Forest Bookshop, Specialist in Books About Deafness and Deaf Issues.
Coleford, Glocestershire
England, GL16 8AR
Additional source of information (from 2 Dec 1995): Sanzio Antonioni.
(Contributed by Brian Jarvis at 3 Aug 1994.)
Materials on Langue des Signes Quebecois (LSQ) can be ordered from:
L'institut Raymond Dewar
3600 Rue Barry
H2L 4G9
Phone: (514) 284-2581 x3528
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