Sign Language Made Simple

by Karen Lewis and Roxanne Henderson

Book Overview

Sign Language Made Simple will include five Parts- Part One- an introduction, how to use this book, a brief history of signing and an explanation of how signing is different from other languages,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385488572
• ISBN13: 9780385488570
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.8" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

Sign Language Made Simple: A Complete Introduction to American Sign Language

This book is great for beginners, and is everything it said it was. I highly recommend reading it if you want to learn the basics of ASL.

easy to use

Got this book for a class. It's easy to use, includes different variations of signs that might be used. As with any sign book though, you have to try to figure out what the sign will look like in action from a drawing.

comprehensive start to ASL

I have taken ASL classes and was using this book as a review. It's pretty comprehensive and contains substantive amounts of nouns (both concrete and abstract), verbs, adjectives, etc. The pictures and the descriptions are very helpful too.

Excellent Resource

This is very helpful for those wishing to learn some basic sign language.

Great for beginners

This book is great for beginners. It shows you alot of signs that would get you started and on your way. However, our class has learned that because all of the signs are not 'universal', we needed an ASL dictionary to go along with it. The discriptions of the signing actions need to be read a couple of times in some instances to understand what you are susposed to do. But is is good for a beginner to get the basics.