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"True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history final, and have doctors, politicians, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked...
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This series presents sign language users signing the dialogues in the accompanying texts, The Green Books. Each dialogue is presented three times, the first presenting a full view of both signers and the second and third allowing the viewer to sign with the person in the dialogue. Each DVD concludes with several stories, anecdotes or poems spontaneously presented in American Sign Language.
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"In Reading between the Signs, Anna Mindess provides a new perspective on a poorly understood culture, American Deaf culture. With the collaboration of three distinguished Deaf consultants, Mindess explores the implication of cultural differences at the intersection of the Deaf and hearing worlds. This new, third edition of her classic and best-selling text covers several new topics of great interest to activists and interpreters, including teaming...
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Demonstrates grammatical features addressed in the 2001 Instruction Guide workbook needed to accompany the video. Grammatical aspects of ASL which are presented include: topic/comment structure; yes/no questions; wh-questions; rhetorical questions; directionality; use of space; negation; classifiers; conditional; and time sequenced ordering. Following an explanation of each grammatical component sample sentences in both PSE and ASL are presented....
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This DVD is designed to lead the viewer through seven sections to improve and accelerate mastery of reading fingerspelled words as a whole unit, forming fingerspelled words fluidly and accurately, and anticipating fingerspelled words based on context. An accompanying booklet is available upon request. This is not a beginning level DVD.
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This project presents English idioms in sentence format then has two certified interpreters model how to transliterate and interpret each one. The goal of the DVD is to provide a realistic demonstration of what a qualified interpreter would do with the stimulus material. Viewers can watch and listen to the spoken sentence, transliterate the sentence, view the modeled version for feedback, interpret the same sentence, and finally view the modeled...
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From their magical world, Alex and Leah invite infant and children to learn to sign. This dvd combines signing children and infants, animation, and music and an adult to model each sign. Presents twenty-nine everyday sign concepts like day, night, hungry, bread, happy, said, and many more.
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