The Complete Idiot's Guide to Conversational Sign Language Illustrated

The Complete Idiot s Guide to Conversational Sign Language Illustratedteaches readers how to communicate in a variety of everyday situations. Readers will not only learn grammar and signs, but will actually learn how to use them in key, common phrases. Rather than focusing on American Sign Language (ASL), the difficult-to-learn formal language of the Deaf community that has little in common with English, readers will learn the hybrid known as Pidgin Sign English (PSE) - signed English (applying signs to the English language) and ASL - which is the language used most often when hearing and deaf people communicate with one another.

Carol Lazorisak holds national certificates as a Deaf Certified Interpreter and as a Professional American Sign Language Teacher. Selected as a -ôNew Yorker of the Week-ö by NY1 Cable, she was featured in the first issue of Biography magazine.

Dawn Donohue is a sign language interpreter and sign language teacher as well as an international management consultant. She is also Ms. Lazorisak-'s daughter.