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"In American Sign Language for Everyone, Dr. Julia Silvestri--a native user of American Sign Language (ASL) and member of the Deaf community--will show you how to use this unique language to meet people, share information about the world around you, express your opinion, and enjoy ASL literary forms. In 24 engaging lessons, Dr. Silvestri will teach you the manual alphabet, and many dozen signs to enable you to converse in this powerful visuospatial...
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What would life be like without language? For too many deaf people raised in rural outposts, access to a sign-language community is denied and they are condemned to a life without words. Such injustice deserves our attention and is explored with care in this haunting story of two deaf siblings, Dulce Maria (28) and Francisco (22), who have been raised their entire lives without access to any written, spoken, or signed language on a farm in northern...
5) What?
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It is a black-and-white, silent (and signing) comedy about a struggling deaf actor, sick of agreeing to increasingly humiliating tasks just to get a role, who decides to take matters into his own hands.
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A FINALIST FOR THE 2016 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE AND THE 2017 YOUNG LIONS AWARD
Don't miss Kaitlyn Greenidge's second novel, Libertie, which is available now!
"A terrifically auspicious debut." -Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"Smart, timely and powerful . . . A rich examination of America's treatment of race, and the ways we attempt to discuss and confront it today." -The Huffington Post
The Freeman family--Charles, Laurel,...
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True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history final, and have doctors, politicians, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked...
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Caleb Zelic novels volume 2
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Deaf since early childhood, Caleb Zelic is used to meeting life head-on. But now, his best mate is dead, his ex-wife, Kat, is avoiding him and nightmares haunt him. But when a young woman is killed, after pleading for his help in sign language, Caleb is determined to find out who she was. And when the trail leads him back to his hometown, he uncovers secrets that could threaten any chance of reuniting with Kat and his life.
16) Happy Signs Day
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Start the day right! Help your baby communicate more effectively with Happy Signs “Day”. Happy Signs allows your little one to clearly express his or her needs through signing, thus easing the frustration that babies often feel when they are unable to convey their thoughts through speech. Based on American Sign Language, Happy Signs is easy and fun for both parents and kids.
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Language Tree's American Sign Language for Kids volume 2 is designed to teach the basics of ASL to kids of all ages. This video introduces useful signs for everyday concepts such as eating and drinking, telling time, weather, parts of the body, feelings and emotions. Along the way, your child will also gain valuable insight into the Deaf culture.
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All Brainy Baby® Learning features Live-Action and real children while using familiar objects to help make fast learning connections. Brainy Baby has won more than 77 Awards and has been University tested producing a learning increase of 22x. The are designed to make "learning connections" at an early age and divided into four learning categories: Infant / Early Learning and brain development, Academic subjects (ABCs, 123s, etc.) Enrichments (Art...
20) Project Nim
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Documents the 1970s experiment in which a chimpanzee called Nim was raised as a human child by a family in New York City.
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