The Everything Sign Language Book

The appeal of American Sign Language (ASL) has extended beyond the Deaf community into the mainstream - it’s even popular as a language class in high school and college. Readers are guided through the basics of ASL with clear instruction and more than 300 illustrations. With a minimum of time and effort, readers will learn to sign, the ASL alphabet, questions and common expressions, numbers, money, and time, and more. With info on signing etiquette, communicating with people in the Deaf community, and using ASL to aid child development, this guide makes signing fun for the entire family. This revised edition includes completely new material on using ASL in early education, abbreviations and capitalizations, and technological advances.

Irene Duke (Mashpee, MA) has been a professional instructor of American Sign Language for more than twenty years. She is the director of ASL programs at Massasoit College and in the Whitman-Hanson (Massachusetts) Regional School District. She establishes direct onsite ASL courses, workshops, and lectures throughout New England for educators, child-care providers, medical personnel, and special needs and community service organizations.