基本信息出版社：Alpha
页码：261 页
出版日期：2004年09月
ISBN：1592572553
International Standard Book Number：1592572553
条形码：9781592572557
EAN：0021898572554/9781592572557
版本：Pap/DVD
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：The Complete Idiot's Guide

内容简介 How to say it in sign.
With over 600 photos and an instructional DVD.

Focusing on the popular Contact Signing mode (formerly referred as Pidgin Sign Language), 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 600 photos
* First and only book on sign language that contains a DVD
* There are more than 28 million people in the United States with some degree of hearing loss
* Contact Signing is the most frequently used mode of communication when hearing people and deaf people come together and each is not fluent in the other's native language
作者简介 Carole 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 Ms. Lazorisak's hearing daughter.