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Ideal for deaf children and children with additional speech and language needs and their families learning American Sign Language (ASL ) together. Designed to promote essential early learning for young children.

Fingerspelling is an important and integrated part of ASL and the letters of the alphabet help to provide a direct link to literacy.

Contains the 26 letters of the alphabet, one letter per page with picture, sign with written description and the fingerspelled letter plain and simple.

The contents within represent the most commonly used versions of signs but ASL signs do have regional variations, so please check with your local ASL community for local usage.

Face to face contact with native sign language users is recommended as the best way to learn and the Let’s Sign resources as detailed at the back of this book are designed to support this.

Includes: Handshape Key and Fingerspelling Alphabet.

Signs for: apple, butterfly, cat, dolphin, egg, fish, giraffe, house, ice-cream, jigsaw, kangaroo, lion, mouse, noodles, orange, penguin, question, rabbit, snow, tree, umbrella, vegetable, window, xylophone, yellow, zebra.

Have fun with the test yourself pages at the end of the book, to match words, signs and letters.

Additional pictorial graphics based on the Mulberry Symbols with kind permission.

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Plains Indians from different tribes speaking different languages were nevertheless able to communicate facts and feelings of considerable complexity when they met. They used a language composed of gestures made almost entirely with the hands and fingers, probably the most highly developed gesture language to be found in any part of the world.
With this book, you will find it simple to use this language, which the author learned in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, principally from Sioux Indians in Wyoming. Drawings and short descriptions make clear the proper positions and motions of the hands to convey the meaning of over 870 alphabetically arranged common words — hungry, camp, evening, angry, fire, laugh, owl, cat, many times, brave, cold, heart, rain, spotted, together, river, etc. The words are then used in sample sentences. There are also brief sections on the pictography and ideography of the Sioux and Ojibway tribes, and on smoke signals.
This is a book for anyone who wants to learn or teach Indian sign language — scouts, school teachers, camp counselors, scout leaders, parents, linguists, and students of Indian culture. To help counselors and teachers, the last chapters give instructions on how to conduct the Indian ceremony for opening a council fire, an Indian initiation ceremony, and suggestions for sign language tests and exercises.

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