The Complete Idiot's Guide to Conversational Sign Language Illustrated(Complete Idiot's Guide Series)

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How to say it in sign.
With over 500 photos and an instructional DVD.

Focusing on the less formal and more popular PSE (Pidgin Sign English), this is the perfect guide to the fundamentals of communicating through sign in a variety of everyday situations. Inside, readers will discover how to sign for small talk, emotions, directions, weather, family and friends, special ...

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Overview

How to say it in sign.
With over 500 photos and an instructional DVD.

Focusing on the less formal and more popular PSE (Pidgin Sign English), this is the perfect guide to the fundamentals of communicating through sign in a variety of everyday situations. Inside, readers will discover how to sign for small talk, emotions, directions, weather, family and friends, special occasions, recreation, travel, around the house, dining out, shopping, education, at the workplace, emergencies, and more.
• Includes more than 500 photos
• First and only book on sign language that contains a DVD
• There are approximately two million deaf people in the United States
• 90% of deaf children are born to hearing parents, and PSE is the form of signing most often learned and taught by parents

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781592572557
  • Publisher: Alpha Books
  • Publication date: 9/7/2004
  • Series: Complete Idiot's Guide Series
  • Edition description: Book and CD
  • Pages: 288
  • Sales rank: 460,359
  • Product dimensions: 8.06 (w) x 10.02 (h) x 0.71 (d)

Meet the Author

Carol Lazorisak holds national certificates as a Deaf Certified Interpreter and as a Professional American Sign Language Teacher. Selected as a “New Yorker of the Week” 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.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 15, 2008

    Great book!

    This is a great learning book for sign language and the DVD makes all you read and do more clear to understand! Plus it gives you an understanding of the deaf community so you won't offend them when you sign to them!

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted October 14, 2009

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    ASL for Dummys

    I love the book. It is very concise. I watched the DVD, but was not very impressed with that. The book gave me more for my money. I have taken beginning sign language last fall and was very motivated to continue so I purchased a whole lot of books. I went to an ASL meetup to be with others learning and felt so out of place because I had been out of practice, but with the book I was able to converse a bit better the next time I met with the group. I start my next ASL class this coming weekend and am so looking forward to continuing my education. Thanks for the two ladies (Mom and Daughter) who put this book together. It is amazing.

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