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British Sign Language Alphabet Coloring Book: Visual exploration of gestural communication BSL
BSL.
The “British Sign Language Alphabet Coloring Book” is an educational resource that combines coloring with the ability to learn the alphabets of British Sign Language.
26 letters.
54 pages.
8.5 x 11 inches.Read more
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British Sign Language For Dummies
Learn British Sign Language quickly and easily with this essential guide and online content;This lively guide introduces the key hand shapes and gestures you need to communicate in British Sign Language. The illustrations depict both the actions and facial expressions used to sign accurately, while the online content features real-life BSL conversations in action to further your understanding. With these practical tools, you’ll become an expert signer in no time!
British Sign Language For Dummies includes:
Starting to sign – learn about Deaf communication and practise simple signs to get you going
Learning everyday BSL – develop the grammar and vocabulary skills that are the building blocks to using British Sign Language
Getting out and about – sign with confidence in a wide range of real-life situations, from travelling to dating
Looking into Deaf life – learn about the history of the Deaf Community and how they’ve adapted their technology and lifestyles to suit their needs
For corrections to this book, please click here: http://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileyblackwell/BSLcorrectionslip.pdf
Note: The online content can be accessed here content can be accessed http://booksupport.wiley.com.
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£14.80£21.80British Sign Language For Dummies
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BSL EMERGENCY CONTACT SIGNS (LET’S SIGN)
CARRY WITH YOU FOR QUICK VISUAL COMMUNICATION AID AND REFERENCE IN AN EMERGENCY
The signs cover those considered to be the most useful for urgent situations as experienced by representatives of the Police, Fire and Ambulance Services in collaboration with the Deaf community, for Emergency Services up and down the UK.
British Sign Language (BSL) is the language of Britain’s Deaf community and also forms the basis of sign systems used with children and adults with Special Educational Needs (SEN) who have additional speech and language needs.
Basic sign communication can be invaluable for on the spot assistance – not only for Emergency Service providers but also members of the public who may be first on the scene and able to summon help and give assistance.
Sign language users may want to carry this resource with them – and also to register with the Emergency SMS service (detailed on page 3).
The 78 key-word flashcards provide a visual reference in this printed book format, also useful for sign language classes, and also works great on tablet, smart phone and PCs using the free Kindle reader apps.Included are Handshape Key, Right and Left-Handed Fingerspelling Alphabets and Communication Guidelines.
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BSL Everyday Signs.Educational book, contains everyday signs.
Learn the everyday British signs with this easy book.
This stunning book contains:
BSL handshapes,
The everyday signs: hello, goodbye, thank you,
Telling the time,
She/he pronouns,
I, have, my and more.
Get the perfect gift for your loved ones!
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BSL SIGN & SPELL ABC Alphabet Book: British Sign Language & FINGERSPELLING
LEARN THE BSL ALPHABET AND SIGNS TOGETHERCOLOURFUL AND ENGAGING
Words, pictures, signs and descriptions.
Sign language can potentially benefit all children’s progress during the crucial early years of language acquisition when life-long foundations are being laid. Children with no additional needs can benefit; BSL is proving to be a valuable learning tool for children and encourages an inclusive environment.
Ideal for young children who are deaf or have special educational needs (SEN) in addition to all sign language learners and baby signers.
Also available on Kindle.
Includes: Handshape Key and Left and Right-Handed Fingerspelling Alphabets.
Signs for: apple, butterfly, cat, dog, egg, fish, giraffe, house, ice-cream, jumper, kite, lion, mouse, night, orange, penguin, queen, rabbit, snow, tree, umbrella, van, window, xylophone, yellow, zebra.
•Full British Sign Language (BSL) Fingerspelling Alphabet letter by letter
•Illustrated pictures (Widgit Software graphics)
•Letters and Signs (Let’s Sign BSL graphics)
•Written descriptions for making the signs.
Fingerspelling gives a direct link to the written word to support literacy.
Ideal for encouraging all children to learn the basics and for introducing the topic of alternative communication systems and languages that can benefit children who are deaf or have special educational needs and use signs to support their communication.
Also an ideal starting point for Baby Signers.
Supported by the Let’s Sign BSL Series of resources from DeafBooks.
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Interpreter 4.0 – #Awkard: 2021 and 2022 Proceedings of the 28th and 29th efsli conferences: Proceedings of the 28th (4-5 Sept 2021) and 29th (3-4 Sept 2022) efsli conferences
The 2021 & 2022 proceedings include a selection of papers presented in both conferences which will surely spark your curiosity about these issues and current research on the topics.The 2021 annual conference was then held online and the topic chosen was “Interpreter 4.0: Towards a virtual reality? Challenging new connections and human relationships” and the title could not have been more fitting, as we had to deal with so much technical innovation and changes to and in the interpreting profession during the Covid pandemic.
In 2022, the global health situation was more promising; therefore, we could hold our annual conference face to face, in Manchester, UK. The topic tackled was “#Awkward”, encompassing all the situations we find ourselves in that make us uncomfortable in one way or another, as well as our fears of accepting work in those areas.
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Learn to Sign with Olli: The Fun Way to Learn Sign Language
Signing has become mainstream it is used within schools and by speaking parents to communicate with babies and young children. Many schools teach signing as part of their curriculum and are seeking new, accessible material. Learn to Sign with Olli offers all children and parents a fun way to learn sign language through four complete stories. Aimed at all children and their parents not just the hearing impaired First in a seriesRead more
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Let’s Sign for Work: BSL Guide for Service Providers
This is the 2nd edition of this book. The work has been fully REVISED & ENLARGED (2007) with 294 completely new British Sign Language (BSL) sign illustrations to appeal to adults and young people.The book is in large print and clearly illustrated with well-chosen signs, descriptions, communication advice, and useful background.
Suitable for those whose work may bring them into contact with Deaf people.
BSL also forms the basis of sign systems such as Makaton and Signalong used in the field of special needs/learning disability/autism who may also find this book useful.
The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) requires those providing services to take positive steps to improve access – this includes access to information, interpreting services and communication with agency staff – this book is designed to assist such access and communication.
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Let’s Sign Introduction to BSL Early Years Curriculum Tutor book
A must-have for all who wish to introduce all young children to the basics of British Sign Language.PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PRINT ON DEMAND VERSION DOES NOT INCLUDE THE CD OF ADDITIONAL MATERIALS THAT CAME WITH THE FIRST EDITION – THE PRICE HAS BEEN ADJUSTED ACCORDINGLY AND THE MATERIALS ARE STILL AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AS DOWNLOADS FROM Let’s Sign website.
This TUTOR Book accompanies the Early Years Curriculum STUDENT Books which are required course material for all those attending the courses in Early Years settings – developed and piloted over a 2 and a half year period, primarily by Deaf tutors for Deaf tutors in education – a much-needed resource.
Designed for a 10 week course of 1 hour or 5 weeks of 2 hours BSL training for Nurseries, Families, and Primary Settings.
The Tutor book includes detailed course outlines, plans and materials.
The carefully planned curriculum covers:
* code of conduct for students and tutor
* basic BSL linguistics
* development of story telling skills
* structured framework to follow week by week
* cue cards and dialogue sheets
* sign vocabulary sheets in topics
* signs and phrases for early years settings including Greetings, People, Family, Colours, Questions, Animals, Time, Numbers, Toys, Weather, Clothes, School signs and Christmas.
The book contains the necessary worksheets with hundreds of illustrated signs.
Developed by Devon Deaf and Hearing Impairment Team with BSL graphics by Cath Smith and supported by the Let’s Sign BSL dictionaries, books, posters, reward stickers and flashcards.
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Sign Language Companion: A Handbook of British Signs
British Sign Language (BSL), Britain’s fourth native language, is thriving across the length and breadth of the country, and its use is spreading far beyond the members of the deaf community for whom it is the most fluent way of communicating. Increasingly, many hearing people are learning and using BSL, either because they have deaf relatives or friends or because they simply enjoy the expressive freedom of the language. ‘Sign Language Companion’ is intended for all BSL students. It presents signs with young people in mind, grouped in topics and linking ideas and concepts that will enable them to construct their own combinations and everyday conversations. The topics covered include: Getting to know you – Family, people and other animals – Conduct and behaviour – Sharing ideas and interests – Sharing feelings and relationships – Food and drink – Colour and time and this and that. More than 400 sign illustrations, with over a thousand entries of English translations and descriptions of variations, show the enormous diversity of this living language, and each section ends with puzzles for practice and entertainment.Read more
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Sign Language for Babies and Toddlers : Children’s Reading & Writing Education Books
Why teach your children sign language when words can get the message across? Well, there are instances that spoken words are impossible, such as talking behind windows or talking to people with hearing disability. Treat this book as your child’s introduction to the world of sign language. The combination of texts and pictures make learning a breeze. Grab a copy now!Read more
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SIGN LANGUAGE FOR EVERYONE: A Basic Course in Communication with the Deaf
“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 world. “It is an amazing truth that Dr. Cathy Rice has had more influence on the ministry to the deaf, through her teaching of Sign Language and getting others to learn and teach it, than anyone else in the world. All around America, I have attended churches that have someone interpreting sermons for the deaf and teaching a class for the deaf. And in most cases, they learned the Sign Language at the Bill Rice Ranch and were taught by Dr. Cathy. I am so glad she has written this book. It is authoritative and important. God bless it.” ?the late Dr. John R. Rice, Sword of the Lord Ministries, Murfreesboro, Tennessee In 1953, the late Bill Rice, along with his wife, Cathy, founded the Bill Rice Ranch in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, as a ministry to deaf individuals. Since then, the Ranch has been the headquarters for ministries reaching the deaf for Christ both in this country and abroad. The Ranch still maintains camp and conference grounds in Tennessee and in Arizona where deaf young people can attend one of several weeks of camp free of charge. Also, the sign language school that Dr. Rice began continues to train people through classes held at the Ranch each year. Well over eight hundred churches have established deaf ministries as a result of training received at the Ranch.Read more
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Sign Language for Kids : Children’s Reading & Writing Education Books
Sign language is an additional skill that will prove to be highly useful in real life. It facilitates effective communication without the use of words. Sign language is universal, meaning it’s the same regardless of the dialect, culture and/or race. By exposing your kids to sign language, you are widening their scope of reference to include the world. Secure a copy today!Read more
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Sign Language Interpreting: Theory and Practice
The third edition of Sign Language Interpreting has been revised to introduce sign language interpreters around the world to essential professional knowledge and contemporary best practice in the field.
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The authors are leading sign language interpreter educators, practitioners and researchers, and the book reflects their expertise by integrating a deep knowledge of practical skills and models for sign language interpreting across a range of contexts and locations.
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- an introduction to contemporary theoretical and applied aspects of interpreting practice;
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- a discussion of the interpreting process, the role of the interpreter, and professionalism and ethics;
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- questions at the end of each chapter that guide readers to reflect on the information and issues presented.
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This book is a valuable resource for sign language and interpreting students, interpreters entering the profession, as well as an international reference book for sign language interpreter practitioners, trainers and researchers.
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From the Foreword:
“Students training to become signed language interpreters as well as experienced interpreters in continuing education courses have all praised it for being easy to read for non-native users of English … The authors’ own involvement in so many aspects of our field makes them important inspirations and role models for readers.” – Anna-Lena Nilsson, Professor of Signed Language and Interpreting Studies, Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyRead more
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Signs Make Sense: A Guide to British Sign Language (Human horizons series)
Interest in British Sign Language (BSL) is growing at a fantastic rate, and classes for hearing people are mushrooming all over the country. This lively introduction to the principles of the language and its vocabulary will therefore be widely welcomed, giving a vivid insight into a form of communication that can appear difficult for those whose first language is English. As the author takes pains to stress, BSL is not a mimed version of English. Equally rich and complex, it is visual, gestural and spatial, able to convey information and subtleties of meaning as fluently as any spoken language. Once learners have ceased to think in terms of individual words, they will come to revel in a language that involves the whole person: facial and bodily expression and movement, eye contact and gaze, lip pattern and the fluid movements of the signs themselves, all combining to form an integrated language system with rules of its own. Using detailed drawings throughout to illustrate nuances of meaning, the author groups the signs according to type, introducing each theme and showing how facial expressions, hand and finger movements and placements are used and combined to vary the sense of what is being communicated. Her aim is to equip the reader with a basic understanding of the principles of sign language and a working knowledge of its vocabulary. In an ideal world BSL would be part of every school’s curriculum, whether the pupils were deaf or not, thus giving deaf people the status in society which is their right. Meanwhile, this book will make an important contribution to the growing interest in learning the language, so that more and more people will appreciate that signs really do make sense.Read more
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The Everything Sign Language Book: American Sign Language Made Easy… All new photos! (Everything®)
Discover the intricacies of American Sign Language with this comprehensive, essential guide to learning the basics of sign language.The appeal of American Sign Language (ASL) has extended beyond the Deaf community into the mainstream—it’s even popular as a class in high school and college. You are guided through the basics of ASL with clear instruction and more than 300 illustrations. With a minimum of time and effort, you will learn to sign: the ASL alphabet; questions and common expressions; numbers, money, and time. With info on signing etiquette, communicating with people in the Deaf community, and using ASL to aid child development, this book makes signing fun for the entire family.
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The Linguistics of Sign Languages: An introduction
How different are sign languages across the world? Are individual signs and signed sentences constructed in the same way across these languages? What are the rules for having a conversation in a sign language? How do children and adults learn a sign language? How are sign languages processed in the brain? These questions and many more are addressed in this introductory book on sign linguistics using examples from more than thirty different sign languages. Comparisons are also made with spoken languages.This book can be used as a self-study book or as a text book for students of sign linguistics. Each chapter concludes with a summary, some test-yourself questions and assignments, as well as a list of recommended texts for further reading.
The book is accompanied by a website containing assignments, video clips and links to web resources.Read more
£40.40
