Over 4,500 fully illustrated, up-to-date signs
From basic hand shapes to fully illustrated and described signs, Random House Webster’s Concise American Sign Language Dictionary offers a comprehensive and up-to-date treasury of signs. Whether you are a novice seeking “survival signs” for basic communication or an experienced user fluent in ASL and looking to enlarge your vocabulary, you cannot find a more complete, easy-to-use sign language dictionary.
This authoritative reference includes:
• Over 4,500 signs — more than other ASL pocket dictionaries
• Detailed full-torso illustrations
• Precise, easy-to-follow instructions for performing each sign
• Signs for new and technical terms
• Hints for remembering signs
• And much more
Author
Elaine Costello, Ph.D.
Elaine Costello, PhD, was a longtime educator and author in the field of deafness. For ten years she was a classroom teacher and supervisor in schools for the deaf. She also served as the director and editor in chief of the Gallaudet College Press at Gallaudet College in Washington, D.C., the world’s only liberal arts college for the deaf.
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Paul M. Setzer
Paul Setzer was an illustrator whose works include Random House Webster’s American Sign Language Dictionary, Come Sign With Us: Sign Language Activities for Children, and American Sign Language: A Beginning Course.
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Linda C. Tom
Linda C. Tom is an illustrator whose works include the Random House Webster’s American Sign Language Dictionary, Random House Webster’s American Sign Language Medical Dictionary, Random House Webster’s American Sign Language Legal Dictionary, At Night: A Book of Prepositions, and The Pet Shop.
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