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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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Improve you ability to understand/interpret ASL conversations with three dialogues: Teacher/Student, Counselor/Client, Lawyer/Client. Each conversation is shown twice: first the story is signed for the viewer to practice their receptive interpreting skills; then the story is shown again with a voice interpretation.
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Marbury and Azure alternately sign ASL mini-stories (paragraphs). First, the stories are signed without a voice-over to allow the viewer an opportunity to reverse interpret the story; second, each story is signed with a model voice interpretation. Topics are provided before each story for context.
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Dr. Marilyn Daniels teaches an introduction to American Sign Language, showing the alphabet, numbers, and signs that are commonly found in a classroom. She provides clear instruction on sign production and her explanations are geared toward beginning signers. These signs and several more are found in the accompanying book. While in the introduction she claims that Spanish will be spoken, it is not, but the Spanish word is noted in the book next...
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Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language among deaf people.
The ensuing debate over sign language invoked such fundamental questions as what distinguished Americans from non-Americans, civilized people from "savages," humans from animals, men from
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