Sign Language for Everyone: A Basic Course in Communication with the Deaf

by Cathy Rice

Book Overview

"Listen with your eyes . . .

Sign Language is a method of presenting thoughts via pictures made with one's hands."

People are adaptable. This trait is particularly useful when one of the five senses is weakened and another becomes more acute to compensate for the weakness. So the deaf, when they hear, hear with their eyes. To communicate to the deaf, then, is to translate the speech of the hearing world into the pictures of the seeing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078526986X
• ISBN13: 9780785269861
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 9.9"