The American Sign Language Phrase Book by Lou Fant & Betty G. Miller

The American Sign Language Phrase Book by Lou Fant

Illustrations by Betty G. Miller

The American Sign Language Phrase Book by Lou Fant & Betty G. Miller is the first of its kind a handy reference guide of everyday expressions, providing the immediate means for anyone who needs or wishes to communicate with the deaf.

This simple-to-use manual is organized by topic, with chapters focusing on such areas as health, family, school, recreation, sports, travel, religion, time, money, food and drink, and even small talk. Each hand movement comprising every phrase is clearly illustrated with one of the more than 1,500 line drawings (drawn by an artist who is deaf and fluent in ASL). Also included are a detailed. discussion of ASL grammar and a compact dictionary of ASL signs.

American Sign Language (also known as Ameslan), the sign language utilized by most deaf people, is indeed a "language." It has its own syntax, sentence constructions, grammar, and word order.

As with any unfamiliar language, phrases are the key to communication. The American Sign Language Phrase Book supplies that key; it is a most practical resource and will be used repeatedly.

Lou Fant, host of the Emmy-nominated, nationally syndicated sign language TV inter-view show "Off-Hand," has written many books on sign language, including Say It with Hands and Intermediate, Sign Language. He is also an actor, a teacher (Gallaudet College, California State University), a consultant, and a sign language coach (to Diane Keaton, Henry Winkler, Melissa Gilbert, John Rubenstein—who won a Tony Award for Children of a Lesser God—and many others).