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She was born deaf to a Deaf family, and also has a Deaf older brother.
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American Sign Language is a rich and complex language. Recently declared as an official language and recognized by 48 states as a foreign language, more and more high school teachers across the country are teaching American Sign Language as an elective. Learning American Sign Language: Levels I & II – Beginning &Intermediate is designed to prepare teachers to successfullyinteract with American Sign Language (ASL) users. Lessons are structured around language needed for common-life situations, and examples are presented in the form of dialogues coupled with grammar and vocabulary instruction. Information is also included about the culture of deaf people in the United States. Learners will discover that the book: • Contains lessons designed around the conversational language needed for common life situations. • Illustrates hundreds of sentences and vocabulary with over 2,000 high quality colorized drawings that aid in study and memory. • Contains over 100 grammar and cultural notes, 72 exercises, and charts of the American Manual Alphabet (Finger spelling) and ASL number system. • Teaches the rules of ASL in a natural order that is predictable and compatible with everyday language of native users of American Sign Language. • Incorporates information about the cultural lives of Deaf people in the United States. • Is supported by a video demonstrating all the conversations and important structures in the text. Order the Video! Video to Accompany American Sign Language, 2/e Order No. 0-205-27554-0 American Sign Language students will find themselves captivated and entertained by this state-of-the-art Video that presents all 72 dialogues and each key structure from the text in a clear and natural way. Four internationally known Deaf actors animate the dialogues bringing life to the illustrations in the text allowing students to preview and review instructional materials at home to enhance their classroom learning. About the authors: Tom Humphries is Associate Director of the Teacher Education Program and also teaches in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. He is currently coordinating a program to train teachers of deaf children using a bilingual approach. Prior to this he taught at Gallaudet University in the Department of English for several years and later served as an Associate Dean for the San Diego Community College District where he coordinated the development of an ASL program and an interpreter-training program. He holds a Ph.D. in Cross Cultural Communication and Language Learning. Dr. Humphries is co-author with Carol Padden of Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture and several other books and articles related to ASL and the culture of Deaf people. Carol Padden is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego where she teachers courses on language, culture and media. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California, San Diego. Her recent research includes studies of reading development in young deaf children and she has written extensively about the cultural lives of Deaf people in the United States. She received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, in addition to numerous other awards and grants for her work. In addition to the books she has co-authored with Tom Humphries, she has published several other books and articles on American Sign Language structure. Humphries & Padden (Learning American Sign Language, 2e).
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Learning American Sign Language: Levels I & II--Beginning & Intermediate (2nd Edition) Spiral-bound Tom L. Humphries (Author), Carol A. Padden (Author), Rob Hills (Illustrator), Peggy Lott (Illustrator), Daniel W. Renner (Illustrator)
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This new DVD to accompany the best-selling sign language book, Learning American Sign Language, brings the art and learning of sign language to life.
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Designed to help learners successfully interact with American Sign Language (ASL) users, this text includes 24 lessons that cover Beginning and Intermediate courses of study. Lessons are structured around language needed for common life situations. The book is supported by a videotape and an instructor's manual.
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Written by two leading authorities in the field, this book is designed to help learners successfully interact with deaf American Sign Language (ASL) users. It is also used as the basic text for a course in ASL. Lessons are structured around language needed for common life situations, and the book is also supported by a videotape.
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This book features nearly 1000 vocabulary items illustrations brief explanations and examples of some basic structures of American Sign Language. It includes exercises for the student to practice these structures.. Author - Tom Humphries Carol Padden Terrence J. ORourke. Year - 1994. 284 Pages. Soft cover. Spiral bound. ASL. Item Weight - 1 lbs.
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She was born deaf to a Deaf family, and also has a Deaf older brother.
As a child, she was reared in Deaf culture: the people with whom she and her family socialized attended both Deaf schools and Deaf clubs.
She is a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego, where she has been teaching since 1983. She was named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow and a 1992 Guggenheim Fellow. My parents are both deaf, and I have an older deaf brother, so sign language was a natural part of my upbringing.
When I was eight, I transferred from a special school for deaf children to my local public school and for the first time, I was among children and adults who did not sign.
I often describe this experience as being “educated abroad,” because it gave me a sense of self and difference that I did not have before. She was reared bilingually in English and American Sign Language.
Padden is married to Tom, who is also Deaf and has co-authored several books with her. She also has one child of her own who is not deaf.
Deaf in America: Voices from A Culture was a pioneer in Deaf Studies.
This book"s goal was to "write about people in a new and different way." Padden and did not want to focus on writing about their hearing loss, but to focus on their language and their culture. Much has been written since this book, and Deaf Studies has really flourished. In 1988, however, this was a relatively new concept.
Neal Conan: Let"s start with the big question: What is deaf culture? How does the condition of deafness lead to the creation of a culture? Carol, why don"t you go first.
Mississippi Padden: Yes, I"ll start with that. The concept of culture is a way to capture something that deaf people share – not only deaf people, but groups of deaf people that are all over the world.
lieutenant describes what deaf people have in common, their common history, their sets of ideas, their common practices. Culture itself captures a sense of commonality within a group of people.
American Sign Language is a critical part of that commonality.
Carol Padden has experienced Deaf Culture first-hand since birth. However, in the Deaf Community, this is not always the case. Many Deaf people from hearing families do not have exposure to Deaf culture until they become adults.
In fact, Carol Padden"s spouse Tom became deaf at the age of six, but did not meet other Deaf people until he entered college.
Together, they have participated in a new generation of research on sign language. In 2010, the John Doctorate. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named Carol Padden a recipient of its so-called "genius" grant.
The foundation recognized Padden"s pioneering work in the morphology and evolution of American Sign Language with a no-strings attached grant of $500,000. Padden"s Doctor of Philosophy dissertation on American Sign Language morphology and syntax was published in the Garland Press Outstanding Dissertations (Linguistics Series, 1988).
(Designed to help learners successfully interact with Amer...)
(Written by two leading authorities in the field, this boo...)
(This new DVD to accompany the best-selling sign language ...)
(This book features nearly 1000 vocabulary items illustrat...)
(Learning American Sign Language: Levels I & II--Beginning...)
( American Sign Language is a rich and complex language. ...)
(Book by Tom Humphries, Carol Padden, Terrence J. O'Rourke)
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