ASL skills development
(Book)

Title from disc label.

Workbook of same title written by Carol J. Patrie.

To be an effective sign language interpreter, one needs a high level of skill in the languages used to interpret. ASL Skills Development is full of challenging exercises with taped source materials that make necessary ASL skills strong and flexible and prepares one to move on to more advanced skills. Helpful theoretical introductions for each topic, study questions and comprehension sections called "Get to Know the Signer" make these materials a thorough, powerful learning tool. Topics include main idea comprehension, summarizing, lexical substitution, paraphrasing propositions, paraphrasing discourse, visual form and meaning and finally meaning and visual form.

DVD.