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Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
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 metaphors and images used to describe the deaf - outsiders; beings of silence, innocence, and mystery; users of a language alternately seen as ancient and noble or primitive and animal-like - offer...
62) Set me free
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Three years after being kidnapping from her home in Martha's Vineyard, fourteen-year-old Mary Lambert receives a letter from Nora O'Neal, a servant in the house where she was held, who tells her of an eight-year-old girl where she is now employed whom Nora believes to be a deaf-mute, but who is being treated as insane, and asks Mary to come and teach the nameless child; a little scared, but intrigued, and bored with domestic life, Mary agrees--only...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A revelatory collection of essays on the DeafBlind experience and the untapped potential of a new tactile language. Born Deaf into an ASL-speaking family and blind by adolescence, John Lee Clark learned to embrace the possibilities of his tactile world. He is on the frontlines of the Protactile movement, which gave birth to an unprecedented language and way of life based on physical connection. In a series of paradigm-shifting essays, Clark reports...
65) Where's Spot?
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Language
English
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Description
A mother dog finds eight other animals hiding around the house before finding her lost puppy. Flaps conceal the animals and the text is accompanied by diagrams showing how to form the Signed English signs for each word of the text.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1971, graduate student Penny Patterson began teaching sign language to a gorilla named Koko, a scientific experiment that evolved into an intimate friendship lasting almost half a century and changed the course of human-animal communication.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Helen was a young girl everyone believed was too deaf, dumb and blind to be helped. A child with the inability to speak or comprehend the world around her. She was saved by Annie Sullivan, a persistent and outspoken teacher who came into Helen's life. Together they accomplished the impossible and taught one another the values of patience, tolerance and compassion. They embark on an amazing and triumphant journey that made the name Helen Keller synonymous...
Author
Series
Show Me a Sign volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"As a young teacher on Martha’s Vineyard, Mary Lambert feels restless and adrift. So when a league of missionaries invite her to travel abroad, she knows it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Paris is home to a pioneering deaf school where she could meet its visionary instructors Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc―and bring back their methods to America! But the endeavor comes at a cost: The missionaries’ plan to “save”...
Author
Publisher
Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Sing & Sign for Young Children shows early childhood professionals how to teach sign language skills through music and play during everyday classroom routines"--
"Research shows that teaching sign language to all young children has a wide range of benefits, from enhancing social‐emotional and preliteracy skills to supporting positive parent‐child relationships. With Sing & Sign for Young Children, early childhood professionals will...
71) Show me a sign
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Disability Pride for Kids
Disability Pride for Teens
Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
One World, Many Stories 6th - 8th
Disability Pride for Teens
Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
One World, Many Stories 6th - 8th
Description
It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Knack
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"While learning a new language isn't a “knack” for everyone, Knack American Sign Language finally makes it easy. The clear layout, succinct information, and topic-specific sign language partnered with high-quality photos enable quick learning. By a “bilingual” author whose parents were both deaf, and photographed by a design professor at the leading deaf university, Gallaudet, it covers all the basic building blocks of communication. It does...
Author
Publisher
Fair Winds
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Baby Sign Language is a photo-illustrated, easy-reference guide to signing with your baby featuring 100+ signs and helpful tips from Mary Smith, the founder of Sign 'n Grow"--
"Start signing with your baby today! This comprehensive book makes signing easy with photos of real kids using 100+ signs, plus expert advice on teaching your baby to communicate early. In Baby Sign Language, Mary Smith—ASL interpreter and founder of popular sign language...
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Grasp the rich culture and language of the Deaf community To see people use American Sign Language (ASL) to share ideas is remarkable and fascinating to watch. Now, you have a chance to enter the wonderful world of sign language. American Sign Language For Dummies offers you an easy-to-access introduction so you can get your hands wet with ASL, whether you're new to the language or looking for a great refresher. Used predominantly in the United States,...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Read the world to change the world! This artful picture book about friendship and sign language, originally published in the Philippines in concert with nonprofit Room to Read, is beautifully revised for this global edition. Our new neighbors’ hands are dancing. Their hands move as if to music. What are they saying to each other? Sam’s new neighbors’ hands make graceful movements she doesn’t recognize, and she wonders what they are saying....
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