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English
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In a series of paradigm-shifting essays, Clark reports on seismic developments within the DeafBlind community and challenges the limitations of sighted and hearing norms. In "Against Access," he interrogates the prevailing advocacy for "accessibility" that re-creates a shadow of a hearing-sighted experience, and in "Tactile Art," he describes his relationship to visual art and breathtaking encounters with tactile sculpture. He offers a brief history...
Author
Publisher
Callisto Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A 30-day beginner's guide for learning American Sign Language. There's an easy way to leap right in to learning American Sign Language (ASL). American Sign Language for Beginners delivers 30 days of lessons that will help you sign with those in your home, community, and classroom. From letters and numbers to essential vocabulary and grammar basics, this beginner's guide provides the essentials needed to develop a solid foundation for American Sign...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Over 14,000 Australian children and young adults under 21 years of age use a hearing aid or cochlear implant because they have a permanent or long term hearing loss. People who have a hearing loss may refer to themselves as deaf, hearing impaired or hard of hearing. They may communicate using speech, sign language or a combination of speech and sign. Children who have a hearing loss need specialist support in their early years and many require ongoing...
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English
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"True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is...
Publisher
Two little hands Productions
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Teaches American Sign Language signs. Combines signing children and infants, animation and music, and an adult to model each sign. Teaches babies to sign before they can speak. Includes signs for red, yellow, blue, grape, peach, strawberry, carrot, corn, run, jump and dance.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An astonishingly revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell, telling the true-and troubling-story of the inventor of the telephone. We think of Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but that's not how he saw his own career. Bell was an elocution teacher by profession. As the son of a deaf woman and, later, husband to another, his goal in life from adolescence was to teach the deaf to speak. Even his tinkering sprang from his...
Publisher
Two Little Hands Productions
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Teaches 29 signs in American Sign Language. Combines signing children and infants, animation and music, and an adult to model each sign. Teaches babies to sign before they can speak. Includes concepts like day, night, hungry, bread, happy, and sad.
Publisher
Two little hands Productions
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Teaches American Sign Language signs. Combines signing children and infants, animation and music, and an adult to model each sign. Teaches babies to sign before they can speak. Introduces the signs for the alphabet and includes more than 50 signs for words corresponding to different letters.
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Series
Sign of affection volume 1
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Yuki, who's always been deaf, is used to communicating with sign language and her phone. But she's not used to English, so when a tourist from overseas asks for directions, she nearly panics...until a handsome stranger steps in to help. His name is Itsuomi, and it turns out he's a friend of a friend. A charismatic globetrotter, Itsuomi speaks three languages, but he's never had a deaf friend. The two feel drawn to each other and plan a date on a...
Author
Series
Sign of affection volume 1
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Deaf college student Yuki is diving into her newfound romance with Itsuomi, a classmate she met on the train who doesn't tiptoe around her disability, and also happens to be extremely hot. But his handsome looks mean girls tend to throw themselves at him, and he's unintentionally broken hearts before. Can Yuki draw out Itsuomi's true intentions? And is he even interested in romance, or is his focus on an entirely different kind of dream?
Author
Publisher
Peter Pauper Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"My first baby signs teaches basic signs that provide families with a way to communicate before babies can talk at all. The picture book format keeps the learning fun while introducing over 40 key American Sign Language (ASL) signs in context- each with their own visual and written guide. Your little one will learn to express their needs, wants, and frustrations with simple gestures-and you will understand them better"-- backcover
Publisher
Everyday ASL Productions
Pub. Date
[2015], c2009
Language
English
Description
Learn idioms and phrases in American Sign Language covering all facets of everyday life. Silent with written English phrase or idiom preceding the demonstration of the sign language equivalent. Includes sentence examples.
Publisher
Two Little Hands Productions
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Teaches American Sign Language signs. Combines signing children and infants, animation and music, and an adult to model each sign. Teaches babies to sign before they can speak. Includes signs for home, family, brother, sister, grass, rain, tree, coat, excited, surprised, love, and many more.
17) Thunderstruck
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Tells the interwoven stories of two men--Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication--whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time. Set in Edwardian London, an era of séances, science, and fog, and on the stormy coasts of Cornwall, Cape Cod, and Nova Scotia, Thunderstruck evokes the dynamism of those years when great shipping...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
What if the end times allowed people to see and build the world anew? This is the landscape that Kimi Eisele creates in her surprising and original debut novel. Evoking the spirit of such monumental love stories as Cold Mountain and the creative vision of novels like Station Eleven, The Lightest Object in the Universe tells the story of what happens after the global economy collapses and the electrical grid goes down. In this new world, Carson, on...
19) Cold snap
Author
Series
Arliss Cutter novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Stranded in the Alaskan wilderness with three violent prisoners, Supervisory Deputy US Marshal Arliss Cutter becomes the hunted in a desperate fight for survival. After an early spring thaw on the Alaskan coast, Anchorage police discover a gruesome new piece of evidence in their search for a serial killer: a dismembered human foot. In Kincaid Park, a man is arrested for attacking a female jogger. Investigators believe they have finally have their...
Author
Series
DAW book collectors volume no. 1889
Language
English
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The behavioral psychologist onboard a survey ship headed to a planet ripe for colonization, Dr. Grace Park must determine the origin of a strange phenomenon that is causing the crew to suffer mental breaks without losing her own mind in the process.
Psychologist Dr. Grace Park is on the Deucalion, a survey ship headed to an icy planet in an unexplored galaxy. She is to observe the thirteen human crew members aboard the ship as they assess the colonization...
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