ICRID Loan Library Resource List

 

The list below is a bibliography of videos, books, and equipment  available for loan through the
Literacy & Outreach Services Department
of the St Joseph County Public Library in South Bend, Indiana. 
These materials are available through Inter-Library Loan from any public library in Indiana. 

 

The library of  your choice can contact the Literacy & Outreach Services Department of SJCPL
with your request.  At the time of the request, if the videos or equipment are available, they will be
sent to the requesting library within 1-2 weeks.  If videos or equipment are currently checked out,                                      they will be sent to  the requesting library within 4-6 weeks.

 

Please call the  Literacy & Outreach Services Department for more information: 574-282-4655

 http://www.libraryforlife.org/services/servicesdisabled/servicesdisabled.html#hearing

 

Videos, Books, and Equipment For The Deaf and Hard of Hearing Communities were funded through the
St. Joseph County Public Library, Psi Iota Xi Sorority-Gamma Sigma Chapter, and through a grant from
the U. S. Department of Education under the provisions of the Library Service and Construction Act
administered by the Indiana State Library.

Videos

Books & Video Sets
Sign Language Instruction
 

BOOKS

Alandra’s Lilacs362.42 B677a

The story of a mother and her deaf daughter.

 

Choices in Deafness362.42  C452

This book is an invaluable guide to every parent of a child who is hard of hearing or deaf.  It provides medical, audiological, and educational information in a reader friendly format that will assist parents in identifying the educational approach most suited to their child’s unique and individual needs.

 

Deafness:  Historical Perspectives – 362.42  D345

Edited by Mervin D. Garretson - One title from the series, Deaf American Monographs, published by the National Association of the Deaf.  Articles include “Deaf Autonomy and Deaf Dependence”, “Contemporary Trends in American Sign Language”, and “Deaf People and the Criminal Justice System”.

 

Directory of Resources and Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing In Indiana – 362.42 D628

(2000 edition)  This directory has addresses and phone numbers for a wide variety of topics: emergency, government, complaints/hotlines, human services, education, organizations, publications, religions, etc.

 

Do-It-Yourself Listening and Signaling Devices – 362.42 D262d

By William Paschell -- This booklet on assistive listening devices provides deaf and hard of hearing consumers with options in their search for help in everyday listening situations, from television and telephone to one-on-one conversations and group dynamics.

 

Eyes, Hands, Voices: Communication Issues Among Deaf People – 362.42 Ey36

Edited by Mervin D. Garretson - Another title from the Deaf American Monograph series, this book includes topics concerning communication issues among deaf people and bibliographic references.

 

Great Deaf Americans – 920.009 P191g

By Robert Panara & John Panara -- This text is a collection of biographies of deaf Americans who have had to deal with deafness most of their lives and who have succeeded.  They are role models for all people.

 

Literacy and Your Deaf Child – 371.912

For parents who are open to learning, confident enough to self-assess, and devoted to their deaf or hard of hearing child’s growth and success, this book is a wonderful resource for creating a rich learning environment and a strong support system for the development of literacy.

 

Mainstreaming Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students – 371.912 M285

This booklet, with bibliographic references, will give the parents of deaf or hard of hearing child information based on research and resources which will help them choose appropriate schooling for their child.

 

Orchid of the Bayou – 362.41 C2360

This is the extraordinary story of Kitty Fischer, a deaf woman facing blindness.

 

Ringiflash:  Telephone Skills for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students – 621.386 D532r

Written by David Deyo, to help young deaf students learn to use the telephone.  Lessons in this paperback include TDD communication methods, telephone books, and operator assistance.

 

The American Sign Language Handshape Dictionary – 419 T255a

By Richard A. Tennant & Marianne Gluszak Brown - Illustrated with more than 1600 signs, this dictionary can help sign language students remember a sign they may have forgotten or find the meaning of a new sign.

 

The Cued Speech Resource Book for Parents of Deaf Children – 419 C815c

By Osin Cornett, Ph.D. & Mary Elise Daisey, M.Ed.  This resource book offers a plan for using hand cues with speech that allows the deaf child to learn the English Language.  Topics range from auditory learning to advanced language skills.

 

Fingerspelling the Real World – 419 B147f

By Suellen J. Bahleda.  The author of this book of fingerspelling practices, designed for students, has two goals:  to give techniques and practice for fingerspelling, and to give an understanding of the uses of fingerspelling within manual communication.

 

Intermediate Sign Language Workbook of Text Analysis – 419 C23i

By Laura Carr and Ursula Palmer.  This workbook for intermediate students of sign language offers exercises for strength, dexterity and flexibility, expressive and receptive practice of fingerspelling, linguistic description of signs, and translation of short stories.

 

Sign The Speech:  An Introduction to the Theatrical Interpreting – 419 G265s

This paperback book by Julie Gebron, provides basic information on the art of interpreting theater for deaf or hard of hearing people.

 

Videos

ABC Stories – VC 419 Am35

ABC Stories are a unique form of Sign Language entertainment.  The challenge of an ABC story is to use letters of the manual alphabet, in alphabetical order, to tell a story.  Time:  60 minutes, ASL

 

ADA:  Access for Deaf Americans – VC 346.7301 Am35

Highlights the rights and responsibilities of Deaf and Hard of Hearing people under the ADA Act of 1990.  Presented in ASL with voice-overs and open captions.  Time:  68 minutes

 

American Culture:  The Deaf Perspective (1984)

Four-part series produced by the San Francisco Public Library – captioned  -- Time:  30 minutes each

Part 1:  Deaf Heritage – VC 362.42 Am35

Part 2:  Deaf Folklore – VC 362.42 Am351

Part 3:  Deaf Literature – VC 362.42 Am352

Part 4:  Deaf Minorities – VC 362.42 Am353

 

An Introduction To American Deaf Culture --

This is a five-part series of videotapes on American Deaf Culture written and developed by MJ Bienvenu and Betty Colonomos.  Each Tape features a variety of Deaf talent.  Each tape contains a voice-over translation.

 

Rules of Social Interaction – VC 362.42 InSr – An introduction to selected aspects of social interaction among Deaf people including introductions, attention getting, behaviors used to initiate conversations and a number of questions related to TYY’s.  Time: 40 minutes

 

Values – VC 362.42 In8v – An introduction to some of the unique values of Deaf people including: the importance of clubs for Deaf people, perspectives on Deaf children an their socialization and education, residential schools for the Deaf and the importance of eyes and hands to Deaf people.  Time: 60 minutes

 

Language and Traditions – VC 419 In81 – An overview of the unique aspects of ways the Deaf culture are expressed through the language of Deaf people.  Topics include:  technical vocabulary, sign-play, success stories, and school experiences.  Time:  60 minutes

 

Group Norms – VC 419 B477g – This tape is an overview of some “rules” and norms for behavior of Deaf people.  Topics include: in-group marriage, the impact of the visual environment on group behavior, code-switching and rules of politeness.  Tape includes audience participation format with guest panelists and audience sharing their perspectives and experiences.  Time: 60 minutes

 

Identity – VC 362.42 In8i – This tape is a unique overview of the topic of self-identity and membership within American Deaf culture.  Issues discussed include: the role of audiological hearing loss in membership, the criteria for acceptance and non-acceptance in the culture by Deaf people, and the relationship of language and educational background to identity.  Tape includes audience participation format with guest panelists and audience sharing their perspectives and experiences.  Time: 60 minutes

 

An Introduction to the Deaf Community – VC 419 In8

This video provides a basic overview of deaf people in America, their language and their culture.  This video is designed to help the viewer realize that preconceived notions and ways of thinking about deaf people might be inaccurate, and encourages thinking about Deaf people as members of a unique cultural minority group.  This is an educational tool for use in training and orientation programs and in a variety of Deaf Awareness programs.  Time:  30 minutes, opened captioned.

 

Clarion: The Link Between Silence and Sound – VC 419 C544

Clarion, of Advanced Bionics Corporation, shares the uplifting stories of four people with cochlear implants.

 

Cochlear Implants:  Covering the Basics – VC 419 C6421

Making decisions about hearing assistive devices can involve a large amount of confusing information.  This video gives important facts, from the deaf community, when considering cochlear implants.

 

Deaf Mosaic – Deaf Mosaic is produced by the Department of Television, Film and Photography at Gallaudet University, the worlds leading academic and research center on deafness.

 

The Deaf Way – VC 419 D34 – Highlights from the July 1989 International Conference and Festival on Deaf language, history and art; includes performances by Deaf actors and dancers as well as interviews with Deaf scholars from around the world.  Time: 30 minutes

 

The Deaf Way, continued – VC 419 D341 – Highlights of the Opening Gala performance held July 9, 1989 at Washington D.C.’s Lisner Auditorium; Emcees Howie Seago and Tom Scanlon welcome Deaf performers Marlee Matlin, Phyllis Frelich, Ed Waterstreet and Linda Bove, as well as Deaf performing groups from the U. S. (National Theater of the Deaf), Soviet Union, France, and Sweden; a celebration of the Deaf performing artist. (September 1989) Time: 30 minutes

 

Have You Heard About the Deaf? – VC 305 H298

This tape uses slides, old film clips, interviews and short narration to present the cultural accomplishments of 37 Deaf and Hard of hearing individuals throughout history with Jack Gannon, author of Deaf Heritage, as narrator.  Time:  35 minutes.  ASL

 

Hear’s to the ADA – VC 419 H351

This 23-minute videocassette is a guide for consumers with hearing loss to aid their understanding of their rights to communication access in regard to the Americans with Disabilities Act.

 

Independence Through Technology – VC 419 In2

In this 13-minute videocassette examples of several assistive technologies are given, which are pieces of equipment, products, or items that can help the deaf or hard of hearing individual manage daily routines.

 

Live at SMI !!

This is a unique and exciting series of videotapes featuring the nation’s finest Deaf entertainers.  Each show is taped in a cabaret setting in Sign Media’s studio with a live Deaf audience.  Each tape has a voice over (where possible) to make it accessible for hearing people.  Time: 90 minutes each tape.

 

CHALB (Charlie McKinney and Alan Barwiolek) – VC 419 C35 – When one of the guests from ALB’s Talk Show fails to appear, the host (Alan) and the lone guest (Charlie) have to ad lib.  This sets the stage for some funny (yet powerful) interactions about Deaf people and deafness.  Also featured is their famous DEAF-PA WHAT? skit.

 

Gilbert Eastman – VC 419 G372 – Gilbert is a founding member of the National Theater of the Deaf, a playwright (Sign Me Alice) and a television co-host of Gallaudet’s Deaf Mosaic.  Included on this tape are skits about his fictitious “Aunt Emma” and a classic entitled “Epic”, a visual collage of the Deaf President Now week at Gallaudet.

 

Bill Ennis – VC 419 B493 – Bill is a stand-up comic from Washington DC.  This tape includes his spontaneous stories about “the three boys” (Bill and his two brothers) and the famous skit “The Valentine’s Day Massacre”.

 

Eric Malzkuhn – VC 419 Er42 – Eric is an actor, teacher and translator.  Included on this tape is his translation of Lewis Carroll’s The Jabberwocky, a rare glimpse into prep hazing at Gallaudet.  Gallaudet’s “Arsenic and Old Lace” performed on Broadway, and “The 5 Iron Men”.

 

Mary Beth Miller – VC 419 M369 – Her show includes comical “bits n’ skits” that take a humorous look at New York City, sign language, sign language students, interpreters and features many of her clever improvisations.

 

Poetry In Motion – VC 811.3 P752

Poetry in Motion is a perfect blend of language and art.  The expression of human thought, emotions, and ideals expressed through poetry is combined with the dramatic beauty of American Sign Language.  The format has been especially designed to provide a glimpse of the creativity process and how the poet selects material.  Each tape is 60 minutes. ASL

 

The Power and The Promise – VC 419 D342

During the second week of March 1988, the Deaf world changed forever.  Responding to the appointment of a hearing president, the students at Gallaudet University launched a revolutionary movement that became known as “Deaf President Now”.  By the end of the week, a deaf man, I. King Jordan, had been named president of Gallaudet.

 

Signs of Love – VC 419 Si261

This is a video album of religious songs in sign language.  ASL

 

Sing and Sign – VC 419 Si64

Lora Wade teaches sign to young children through original song.  Time:  30 minutes

 

The Treasure – VC 419 T71

Deaf poet, Ella Mae Lentz, signs this collection of poems which trace the development of her poetic style, beginning with her original works in written English which were later translated into ASL and continues to her more recent works composed in ASL.  Through her poems, Ella takes us with her on a delightful experience with one of her favorite teachers.  It creates visual music, relates the pain felt when two people no longer talk to each other and tells how it felt to be dismissed.  Because she was a girl, she speaks to hearing parents about the identify of their deaf child and warns against conflicts within the deaf community such as language abuse that Deaf children face when denied the right to use ASL, share the importance of Deaf residential schools, and tells of their excitement upon realizing that ASL was a true language.  ASL only.  No voice-over or captions.  Time: 60 minutes

 

Using Your TTY – VC 362.42 Us4

This narrated and opened captioned videotape introduces the TTY clearly and practically, making it easy to standardize TTY training.  This history of TTY development, making and receiving calls, etiquette and TTY Do’s and Don’ts are discussed.  Time: 30 minutes.  ASL

 

Books & Video Sets

Assistive Devices: Doorways to Independence – VC 617.89 As76

This program gives a thorough introduction to assistive and systems, which can aid deaf and hard of hearing people in living, working and playing more successfully.  Contains one video-cassette and one book.

 

When The Mind Hears (book & tapes) – VC 305.908 L241 --- Text & Tapes

By Harlan Lane – A powerful study of the history of Deaf people in Europe and the United States, tracing the beginnings of formal education for deaf students.  This story is also a study of prejudice and oppression for almost two hundred years as “educators” have sought to abolish sign language and have denied Deaf people the right of self-determination. 

 

Videotapes make the story available in American Sign Language.  Each tape is a detailed synopsis of a single chapter in the text.  Narrators include Patrick Graybill and Freda Norman.  Each chapter also features a special introduction by Gilbert Eastman.  Voice-over.

 

Chapter 1:  My New Family – story of Laurent Clerc in France

Chapter 2:  The Shepherd and the Symbol – describes Jean Massieu’s life; education

Chapter 3:  High Theater – story of Abbe Roch-Ambroise Sicard

Chapter 4:  A Tale Based on Fact – worldwide education for deaf people; Abbe de l’Epee

Chapter 5:  The Secret – an account on false history of education of deaf people

Chapter 6:  Success and Failure – Jean-Marc Itard and Baron Joseph Marie De Gerando

Chapter 7:  Fortune and Misfortune -- Gallaudet learns European methods of teaching

Chapter 8:  Spreading the Word – American Asylum: Gallaudet and Clerc

Chapter 9:  Concerning Women – centers around four significant women

Chapter 10:  A Dangerous Incursion – to replace sign language with oralism

Chapter 11:  The Denial – the oralism controversy

Chapter 12:  The Incurable Deafness – Congress of Milan in 1880

Interview with Harlan Lane – VC 419 W574 – His insights and observations for the present and the future

 

A Basic Course in American Sign Language – 419 H889b --- Text & Tapes

By Tom Humphries, Carol Paden & Terrence J. O’Rourke – Each of the ABC ASL’s 22 lessons contain 2-4 explanations of language structures introduced in that lesson.  Drills and exercises follow each language explanation, also with vocabulary sections.  Dialogues, which preview language structures already discussed, are spaced throughout the text.

 

Student Study Guide – 4198892 D355s – Exercises reinforce principles in ABC ASL text.  Principles and basic sentence structures appear in boxes, followed by exercises and practice sentences, which allow students to practice receptive and expressive skills.

 

Videotapes – VC 419 B292 – Four videotapes include voice translations.  Hearing students can utilize sound for initial instruction or opt to turnoff the sound to sharpen visual acuity.  Deaf teachers and hearing students perform exercises and dialogues in the text in the first three tapes.  For practice in reading signs, the fourth videotape uses voice-over to present spontaneous conversations among four Deaf adults.  Each tape:  60 minutes

 

Basic Sign Communication – Text & Tapes

Produced by the National Association of the Deaf.  Contents include course unit objectives, sign vocabulary and grammatical principles, teaching strategies, practice activities, transparencies, evaluation instruments and cultural information.  This set includes three teacher’s manuals, student materials text, and a set of six videotapes demonstrating vocabulary.

 

Teacher’s Guides – 419 B2921

Covers three academic quarters; includes lesson plans, strategies for teaching and evaluations, suggested activities, and transparencies.  Guide I, Guide II, and Guide III

 

Student Materials Text – 419 B2921

Includes student and reference materials for all three levels.

 

Videotapes – VC419 B2922

Demonstrates all vocabulary items in the text.  Opened-captioned. Each tape is 60 minutes.

Sign I:  Tape 1

Sign I:  Tape 2

Sign I:  Tape 3

Sign II: Tape 1

Sign II:  Tape 2

Sign III

 

From Mime To Sign – Text & Tapes

More than 1,000 photographs illustrate how natural gestures, mime and facial expressions used every day can become the basis for learning sign language.  Three videotapes cover all chapters of the text (a copy of the text is included with each video).  Learn to synthesize gesture, mime, facial expressions and American Sign Language to truly open the door to “visual thinking”.  Open-captioned.

Chapters 1-5 (40 minutes) – VC419 F9251

Chapters 6-9 (50 minutes) – VC419 F9252

Chapters 10-11 (45 minutes) – VC419 F9253

 

The Green Books – VC419 AM355 --- Text & Tapes

By Charlotte Baker-Shenk & Dennis Cokely (1980). 

 

American Sign Language:  A teacher’s Resource Text on Grammar and Culture – The 469 page text is written for those with little or now background in linguistics.  The companion videotape with MJ Bienvenu illustrates the more than 300 examples in the text.  Time:  60 minutes

 

American Sign Language: A Teacher’s Resource on Curriculum, Methods and Evaluations – The text presents an interactive approach to teaching and learning ASL and provides a basic framework for understanding and using a second language learning techniques.  The companion videotape demonstrates a number of instructional activities.  Time:  60 minutes

 

American Sign Language Student Text and Tapes – Texts are designed to help students acquire conversation abilities in ASL.  Each text contains nine units. 

 

Tales From the Green Books – VC 419 T143

This tape is a compilation of all these classic anecdotes, stories and poems that appear at the end of each student tape.  Time: 60 minutes

 

Signing Naturally:  Student Videotext and Workbook --

Level 1 – VC419 Si268 --- The first 12 units included in Level 1 include:

Introducing oneself, exchanging personal information, talking about surroundings, telling where you live, talking about your family, activities, routines, and occupations, giving directions, attributing qualities to, and describing others, and making requests.  Reviews 1,000 signs and 100 phrases.  New opportunities are given to practice outside the classroom.  Accompanying workbook, including an answer key, is designed as a guide to the videotext, where language is used in context.  Workbook: 200 pages.  One video: 120 – ASL

 

The American Sign Language Phrase Book

Each tape, with accompanying text by Lou Fant, contains over 200 phrases, expressions, sentences, and questions that come up in everyday conversation.  Each tape: 60 minutes.  ASL

Volume 1:  VC 419 Am351 – Everyday Expressions, Signing and Deafness, Getting Acquainted, Health, Weather

Volume 2:  VC 419 Am352 – Family, School, Food and Drink, Clothing, Sports and Recreation

Volume 3:  VC 419 Am353 – Travel, Animals, Colors, Civics, Religion, Numbers, Time, Dates and Money

 

Sign Language Instruction

 

American Sign Language: Program Lesson 37 Review Intermediate 1 – VC 419 Am358

Produced at Indiana University Bloomington by Scott Liddell.  Contains practice for interpreting sign to voice.  This is a sequel to Introduction to American Sign Language series (40 tape series – see Sign Language Instruction).  Contains 36 lessons.  Time: 138 minutes.  No voice

 

ASL Numbers: Developing Your Skills

This series of instructional tapes focuses on the rules and patterns of ASL’s complex number systems.  Each videotape contains explanations and demonstrations of a variety of Deaf models signing numbers in context.  Each tape contains practice drills for viewers to check comprehension and production.

 

Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers – VC 419 B477c – numerals, adjectives that quantify and counting

 

Incorporating Systems – VC 419 B477i – time and calendar units, and members of atWetic teams

 

Unique Systems – VC 419 B477u – age, clock time, height, pronouns, fractions, phone numbers and more

 

ASL Practice Series

Sentences – VC 419 P881 (Voice to Sign) – Expand your ASL vocabulary, grammatical usage and interpreting skills with simple sentences.  Practice with spoken English sentences.  Time: 20 minutes.  Guidebook included.

 

More Sentences – VC 419 M813 (Voice to Sign) – Learn more ASL conversational vocabulary, practice matching affect and improve ASL grammatical structure.  Time: 45 minutes.  Guidebook included.

 

Stories – VC 419 Am354 – Full-length stories repeated with a model voice interpretation.  Time:  35 minutes.

 

Dialogues – VC 419 Am 354 – Preparation to understand or interpret conversations between two ASL users.  Three dramatic dialogues (teacher/student, counselor/client, and lawyer/client) give excellent practice.  Each dialogue is repeated with a model voiced interpretation.  Advanced sign to voice practice, receptivity and improving over ASL skills.  Time: 30 minutes.

 

Deaf Tend Your – VC 419 D343

One 30-minute videotape and book give examples and discussion of non-manual signals (facial expressions and head and body movements) in American Sign Language for sign language students.

 

The Face of ASL

Although the face is used to show emotion in many cultures, it has a very important linguistic role in ASL.  Grammatical information is shown through rule-governed movements of the upper face and head.  Complex meanings are achieved through a variety of lower facial behaviors.  Each tape contains descriptions and demonstrations of facial behaviors in context and practice exercises for checking comprehension and production.  Each tape is approximately 60 minutes.  ASL

 

Basic Declarative Sentences – VC 419 B292 – This tape focuses on the grammatical use of eye gaze, and how negation is marked non-manually in ASL.

Basic Questions – VC 419 B2921 – This tape demonstrates three types of questions in ASL: those with “yes/no” response, those which require information to answer “wh-word” questions, and those answered by the speaker (rhetorical).

 

Conditional and Relative Clauses – VC 419 C753 – This tape focuses on how these clauses are marked non-manually in ASL.

 

Complex Sentences – VC 419 C738 – This tape focuses on combinations and sequences of non-manually marked clauses in ASL.

 

Fingerspelling:  Expressive and Receptive Fluency – VC 419 F494

By Joyce Linden Groode.  Build a foundation to improve your expressive and receptive fingerspelling skills through strategies and practice suggestions in this video and accompanying instructional booklet.  Time: 120 minutes.  Voiced and closed captioned.

 

Fingerspelling Names and Introductions – VC 419 F4943

This 90-minute videotape provides practice in fingerspelled word recognition for sign language students and their teachers, interpreting students, interpreters, and interpreter educators.  The format is that of a Template Building Process, which shows the word at regular speed, in slow motion, in English, then again in regular speed.

 

Fingerspelling:  Practice Exercises with Phrases – VC 419 F4942

This 48-minute videotape presents practice exercises using phrase.  Produced by the University of Pittsburgh Language Acquisition Institute and the Center for Instructional Development and Distance Education.

 

Fingerspelling:  Practice Exercises with Words – VC 419 F4941

This 55-minute videotape presents practice exercises in American Sign Language using words.  Produced by the University of Pittsburgh Language Acquisition Institute and the Center for Instructional Development and Distance Education.

 

Fingerspelling Practice Tapes

Series of practice and instructional tapes designed to assist in improving fingerspelling production and comprehension.  Each tape includes both male and female, and provides individuals who are right hand and left hand dominant.  Each tape presents fingerspelling items from a subjective perspective (as it appears to the finger speller) and conversational perspective (as it apperars to a conversational participant).  Items are taped from a number of different camera angles presenting viewers with several fingerspelling rates, rhythms, and styles.  The use of slow motion repetition of each item exposes the viewer to a number of fingerspelling patterns such as letter transitions and predictable omission of letters.  Each tape contains a self-assessment section.  Time:  60 minutes each tape

Geographic Locations – VC 419 F494g

Proper Names – VC 419 F494p

Miscellaneous Items – VC 419 F494m

Fingerspelled Loan Signs – VC 419 F494f

 

Introduction to American Sign Language – VC 419 In8

A 40 lesson self-instructional series in beginning American Sign Language, this series assumes no knowledge of any sign language.  Lessons 1-36 introduce new material (vocabulary, examples of usage and dialogues or stories).  Lessons 37-40 are review lessons.  Many of the stories and dialogues deal with deafness and Deaf Culture and help give students insights into deafness.  The lessons are presented in pantomime devices, facial expressions and fingerspelling.  Produced in 1981.

 

MCE Sign Language Series – VC 419 Si262

Comprehensive Sign English Dictionary

Lesson 1-2:  People / Food

Lesosn 3-4:  Halloween / Thanksgiving

Lesson 5-6:  Clothing / Christmas

Lesson 7-8:  Valentine’s Day / Numbers

Lesson 9-10:  Easter / Birthday

Lesson 11-12:  Play / Summer

Lesson 13-14:  Animals / The Body

Lesson 15-17:  Playtime / Medical words / Function words

Lesson 18-19:  Things at home / Pronouns

Lesson 20-21:  Actions of body / mind

Lesson 22:  Expressions

Lesson 23-24:  Outdoors / Special Verbs

Lesson 25:  Questions

 

Sign with Me: A Fmily Sign Langauge Curriculum – VC 419 Si2626

Produced by the Center for Hearing Loss in Children at Boys Town National Research Hospital, this three volume set will help parents of young children, ages birth to three years, learn signs and techniques for everyday conversations, for abstract concepts, and for praising and disciplining.

Each volume contains a 75 minute videotape and 1 workbook, -- total of 3 volumes

Volume 1:  Building conversations

Volume 2:  Bulding Concepts

Volume 3:  Positive Parenting

 

Signing Exact English Curriculum – VC 419 Si269

Four videotapes and a guide provide fourteen lessons including 700 vocabulary words and practice sentences to help sign language students learn and practice without their teacher.

 

Signing Fiesta – VC 419 Si2616

This series of 3 videos is designed to teach the basics of ASL in English and Spanish.  Each video is approximately 30 minutes.

 

CD-ROMs