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Title: The Joy of Signing: The Illustrated Guide for Mastering Sign Language and the Manual Alphabet by Lottie L. Riekehof ISBN: 0-88243-520-5 Publisher: Gospel Pub House Pub. Date: May, 1987 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.68 (38 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: OUTDATED AND WRONG APPROACH
Comment: Sorry folks...but save your money and buy a different book. The Joy of Signing was first written waaaaay back in the late seventies (around 25 years ago), and there's been better books that have come along since then, along with a far better approach to learning how to sign. (Signing Naturally, Learning American Sign Language, etc.) The people who continue to use this book are likely those who have never taken a recent training course on teaching ASL, but who are using the fact they know sign language as their qualifying criteria. There's more to teaching sign language or ASL than just being Deaf or knowing the language. This book might teach you SIGNS, but it won't teach you HOW to sign, and it definitely won't help you when it comes time to actually try and communicate with a culturally Deaf person. Instructors of sign language today are taking a more linguistical approach, that teaches ASL as a language in its own right - not just a manual-visual form of English. This book doesn't teach you the language, it merely teaches you the vocabulary. If you just want to learn a couple of signs to communicate with your Deaf neighbor or co-worker, then fine...get this book. But if you are truly desiring to learn to communicate effectively with the Deaf Community, work with Deaf people, become an interpreter, or the like...there are better books out there that may cost more money, but in the long run, be more effective for your purpose. I'm Deaf, a graduate of Gallaudet, and nationally Certifed Deaf Interpreter (CDI) and certified Sign Language Instructor who works in an Interpreter Training Program. I haven't used this book in years, and I have yet to find an Interpreter Training Program that does!
Rating: 4
Summary: ASL--what's that?
Comment: I don't understand the reviews here that glorify ASL and claim this book is no good. Maybe various parts of the country are different, but the deaf around my part of the country just don't use ASL. It is a dying breed only still hung onto by some of the older deaf. Possibly this varies according to where one lives, but nearly all of the younger deaf around my area are moving toward using more Signed Exact English. Anyway, this book is great for what it is. It is like a dictionary, and that is what I wanted. And, of course, some of the signs are different now, but since sign language changes over time just like spoken English, I don't really see the problem. This is a good book for use as a dictionary. If one really wants to learn sign language, then one has to talk to deaf people and see what they are doing now. If you haven't done so in several years, you will find things have changed; and you will have to learn again. Also, those who teach in college continually amuse me. If they don't actually get out into the deaf community where they teach, then they really aren't in a position to know what is really going on. I have seen supposed teachers around my area who really just don't have a clue. If you want to learn sign language, find a teacher who currently works with the deaf in your community, otherwise they are not up to date. And use this book for reference, while realizing that no book is up to date unless it was just published yesterday, and also realize that sign language changes over time, so one has to keep up. And also realized that ASL is a dying language while sign language more closer reflecting English speech patterns is becoming more and more prevalent. One has to keep up with the times.
Rating: 1
Summary: The Joy of Signing...not ASL
Comment: I bought the book "The Joy of Signing" as recommended by a friend and thought it was a good source to learn to speak to deaf people. However, one day at my job, I was signing to a woman who is deaf and she did not understand me. She asked me where I leared that and I told her from "The Joy of Signing". She told me that book is a bad one to use and get one from the official American Sign Language (ASL) instead. Buy another book if you want to effectivly communicate.
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Title: The Joy of Signing Puzzle Book/02Tc0676 by Linda Lascelle Hillebrand, Lottie L. Riekehof ISBN: 0882436767 Publisher: Gospel Pub House Pub. Date: January, 1990 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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Title: Religious Signing : A Comprehensive Guide For All Faiths by Ph.D. Elaine Costello ISBN: 0553342444 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Joy of Signing Puzzle Book 2 by Linda Lascelle Hillebrand, Lottie L. Riekehof ISBN: 0882435388 Publisher: Gospel Pub House Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Signing Made Easy: A Complete Program for Learning Sign Language/Includes Sentence Drills and Exercises for Increased Comprehension and Signing Skil by Rod R. Butterworth, Mickey Flodin, Karen R. Twigg ISBN: 0399514902 Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: February, 1989 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: American Sign Language Concise Dictionary : Revised Edition by Martin L. Sternberg ISBN: 0062740105 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 28 December, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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