Try Your Hand at This (eBook)

Easy Ways to Incorporate Sign Language into Your Programs

Kathy MacMillan (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2005
192 Seiten
Scarecrow Press (Verlag)
978-1-4617-1239-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This guide demonstrates everything from how to set up programming involving sign language for all ages, to dealing with and paying interpreters, and from publicizing programs to the public and within the deaf community, to evaluating and improving the library's sign language collection. Kathy MacMillan's impressive understanding and knowledge of the deaf community and the importance of sign language—as well as her exceptional handling of the numerous erroneous myths about deafness and sign language that are, unfortunately, still often current—make this handbook indispensable for all library personnel looking to reach out to the deaf community.

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American Sign Language is more than just an assortment of gestures. It is a full-fledged unique language, with all the characteristics of such. This helpful and user-friendly guide for librarians and other library personnel involved in library programming demonstrates everything from how to set up programming involving sign language for all ages to dealing with and paying interpreters. The book also discusses how to publicize programs to the public and within the deaf community and how to evaluate and improve the library's sign language collection. Kathy MacMillan's impressive understanding and knowledge of the deaf community and the importance of sign language_as well as her exceptional handling of the numerous erroneous myths about deafness and sign language that are, unfortunately, still often current_make this handbook an indispensable tool for all library personnel looking to reach out to the deaf and hard-of-hearing community.

Autor

Kathy MacMillan is an American Sign Language interpreter, consultant, children's performer, and librarian. She served as Library/Media Specialist at the Maryland School for the Deaf in Columbia, MD from 2001 to 2005.

Inhalt

Part 1 ForewordPart 2 AcknowledgmentsPart 3 IntroductionPart 4 Part I: Make Your Programs Sparkle with Sign LanguageChapter 5 1. Sign Here PleaseChapter 6 2. "But I Don't Know Sign Language!"Chapter 7 3. What You Never Learned in SchoolChapter 8 4. Seven Simple Techniques for Incorporating Sign Language into Any ProgramChapter 9 5. Hands-On Sign LanguageChapter 10 6. Reaching OutChapter 11 7. Drawing Them InPart 12 Part II: Programs for All AgesChapter 13 8. Baby ProgramsChapter 14 9. Toddler ProgramsChapter 15 10. Preschool ProgramsChapter 16 11. Elementary School ProgramsChapter 17 12. Middle School ProgramsChapter 18 13. Family ProgramsPart 19 Appendix A: Annotated Bibliography of ASL ResourcesPart 20 Appendix B: Annotated Bibliography of Materials to Use with Sign LanguagePart 21 Appendix C: Games and Crafts to Use in ASL ProgramsPart 22 Appendix D: Glossary of Terms Relating to Sign Language and DeafnessPart 23 Appendix E: Glossary of Useful SignsPart 24 Works CitedPart 25 IndexPart 26 About the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.11.2005
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• ISBN-10: 1-4617-1239-4 / 1461712394
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4617-1239-8 / 9781461712398