Sign Language Products

Books

American Sign Language Dictionary - Unabridged
Appearing first in 1981, this dictionary remains the largest and most comprehensive book of sign language ever published. Now, completely revised and expanded, American Sign Language features:

* More than 7,000 sign entries, plus cross-references
* More than 12,000 illustrations
* 2,000 more signs than any other ASL dictionary, including dozens of signs that have only recently come into usage
* Arranged alphabetically to enhance usability

Other features include a pronunciation guide for English language glosses and a foreword to the original edition by the late Mary E. Switzer, United States Commissioner of Vocational Rehabilitation.

$37.80

Sign With Your Baby Book
This book provides a great start toward helping you and your baby begin signing with each other. Filled with anecdotes, practical guidelines and humor, this book offers an effective way to teach parents and infants how to communicate through sign. Joseph Garcia helps you recognize when your child is receptive to learning. He recommends which signs to teach first, and shares ideas for games that can be fun and useful when introducing new signs to your infant. The book serves as a useful reference with 145 clearly illustrated signs, enabling you to choose and teach the signs that will be most beneficial to you and your child.

$10.17

Teach Your Tot to Sign
Teach Your Tot to Sign anticipates all of the common desires and interests of young children — food, pets, planes, trains, cars, and boats, games, holidays, vegetables, family — in short, nearly everything. Reflecting children’s endless curiosity, the vocabulary chosen ranges from signs for “baby,” “broken,” “clown,” “dinosaur,” “firefighter,” “gentle,” “hot,” “hurt,” “ketchup,” “pacifier,” “rooster,” “sad,” “spaghetti,” “wagon,” “water,” “wet,” to “you’re welcome,” and even “McDonalds.” This lively assortment of signs will help every child convey earlier in their development their thoughts, feelings, and desires to their parents and teachers.
About the Author
Stacy A. Thompson, a graduate of the Deaf Studies program at California State University Northridge, owns Signing Tots, in Simi Valley, CA, where she teaches parents and educators how to sign with hearing and deaf children.

$10.36

Signing For Kids
An introduction to the expressive language of the deaf, organized by subject areas, including Pets, People, Numbers, Sports, Travel, Science, Thoughts and Feelings, and Places.

$9.56

Signing Smart with Babies and Toddlers
Using American Sign Language (ASL), Dr. Michelle Anthony and Dr. Reyna Lindert have created the simple and successful Signing Smart system to teach parents how to integrate signing into everyday life with their hearing children. Through the more than seventy activities presented in this book, parents will learn the tools and strategies they need to understand how to introduce signing and build their child's sign and word vocabulary.
By using these practical, easy-to-learn methods, parents and babies-from as young as five months old to preschool age-can "converse" through signs at mealtime, bath time, playtime, or anytime.

Featuring the Signing Smart Illustrated Dictionary, with 130 signs.

$10.85

Linguistics of American Sign Language - 3rd Edition
Features recent discoveries on the creation of iconic signs in ASL, why ASL signs are distinct from signs and gestures used in spoken languages, and the relationship between metaphor and iconicity in signed languages.

$60.00

Complete Idiot's Guide to Conversational Sign Language
With over 600 photos and an instructional DVD.

Focusing on the popular Contact Signing mode (formerly referred as Pidgin Sign Language), this is the perfect guide to the fundamentals of communicating through sign in a variety of everyday situations. Inside, readers will discover how to sign for small talk, emotions, directions, weather, family and friends, special occasions, recreation, travel, around the house, dining out, shopping, education, at the workplace, emergencies, and more.

* Includes more than 600 photos
* First and only book on sign language that contains a DVD
* There are more than 28 million people in the United States with some degree of hearing loss
* Contact Signing is the most frequently used mode of communication when hearing people and deaf people come together and each is not fluent in the other's native language

$14.93

Activity/Learning Kits

Sign With Your Baby Complete Learning kit
The most award-winning product of its kind for introducing American Sign Language (ASL) signs to hearing babies, this powerful package can help you understand and meet the needs of infants and toddlers long before they can speak. Author and researcher Joseph Garcia offers a straightforward and light-hearted approach to teaching infants how to communicate using simple ASL signs. Includes Book, Closed Captioned Instructional Video, Quick Reference Guide, and FREE My Baby Can... Bumper Sticker!

$32.97

Signing Smart Flashcards - First Signs
This Diaper Bag Dictionary is the perfect companion to take along with your signing baby or toddler. This collection of easy-to-read photographs of signing adults and chidren is simple to lear from and fun to use! Pull them out to remind yourself of relevant family-friendly signs at the mement you need them, or sit down on the floor with your child and let these adorable photos engage you both again and again!

$11.99

Signing Smart Flashcards - Animal Signs
This Diaper Bag Dictionary is the perfect companion to take along with your signing baby or toddler. This collection of easy-to-read photographs of signing adults and chidren is simple to lear from and fun to use! Pull them out to remind yourself of relevant family-friendly signs at the mement you need them, or sit down on the floor with your child and let these adorable photos engage you both again and again!

$11.99

Sign Language Alphabet Peg Game
This see-inside puzzle makes the connection between the manual alphabet, the written equivalent and phonics. Beneath each piece is the corresponding letter in upper and lower case, and a picture of an object beginning with the letter.

$19.99

Software

Instant Immersion American Sign Language Deluxe
Features:
* ASL Phrase Guide offers real-life communication -- over 600 phrases are introduced, with video demonstrations of each entry
* Complete reference guide provides overview of the scope & history of America's third most common language
* Learn body and hand positioning for grammar and fingerspelling
* Video lessons and explanations of ASL phrase syntax improve beginners' foundation in ASL
* Hands-on ASL dictionary packed with over 6,000 words - plus synonyms and written sign movement descriptions for each entry

$34.99

American Sign Language Dictionary
Features:
* Searching capabilities in 5 languages; progress through signs by subject
* Rich reference tool makes learning ASL easy, intuitive, and fun
* Practice 2600+ signs with video demonstrations and illustrations
* Over 2600 signs, fingerspelling games, and quizzes
* Listen to audio explanations or read the descriptions on-screen

$19.95

DVD

My Baby Can Talk - First Signs
Honored with six prestigious awards including Parents Choice, My Baby Can Talk teaches preverbal babies and their parents to communicate using simple gestures to bridge the gap between the time babies can talk with their hands and the time babies can speak. Reviewed and endorsed by child psychologists, professionals in the media as well as early childhood educators; this program inspires preverbal communication using sign language as well as first spoken words.

My Baby Can Talk was specifically developed to respect the developmental stage, attention span and intellect of hearing babies from 10 to 36 months and teaches babies American Sign Language (ASL) in a format that delights the senses while tapping into a baby’s innate language capabilities. This DVD is the first sign language program that features a preverbal baby signing and teaches some of the first words that are most loved by babies set to classical music by Beethoven, Mozart, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, and Vivaldi.

$19.95

American Sign Language Learning System
This product contains two DVD's that introduce basic sign language vocabulary and a CD-ROM disc containing a visual sign language dictionary and sign language games. The hosts sign all their verbal explanations at normal signing speed, but you have plenty of opportunity to learn each sign at a learner's speed. There are dramatizations of sign language conversations. You gain more knowledge of sign language each time you watch these two DVD's, and you learn not only to sign, but to read others' sign language. The sign language dictionary has video clips of real people signing each entry.

$29.95

Webster's Millennium ASL: Getting Started with Signing
This complete program offers a simple, step-by-step approach to this rich and beautiful language for use in practical, everyday situations. The author is Dr. Elaine Costello - former director and editor in chief of the Galluadet College Press in Washington D.C.'s Galluadet College - the world's only liberal arts college for the deaf.

Customer Reviews:
I am a beginner in sign language. This DVD is really the only "lesson" I've had in sign language. This program is great! It is jam-packed with vocabulary - they teach you around 800 signs! The content and lessons are very well organized and structured.
The host of the show is a deaf woman signing ASL. The co-host is a man signing in English grammar structure. I love it that just about everyone on this DVD signs every word they speak. The host signs as a background voice translates for the viewer. This way you pick up more words as you watch the lessons over and over; you also get to see people interacting in sign language, putting it all together, instead of just learning a bunch of signs. Everyone signs at normal signing speed, so at first it is overwhelming. But as I have watched the program over and over, I can now pick out a lot of what they are signing.

$19.95