Learn British Sign Language quickly and easily with this essential guide and CD-RomThis lively guide introduces the key hand shapes and gestures you need to communicate in British Sign Language. The illustrations depict both the actions and facial expressions used to sign accurately, while the companion CD-Rom features real-life BSL conversations in action to further your understanding. With these practical tools, you’ll become an expert signer in no time!\nBritish Sign Language For Dummies includes:\n\n\nStarting to sign – learn about Deaf communication and practise simple signs to get you going\n\n\nLearning everyday BSL – develop the grammar and vocabulary skills that are the building blocks to using British Sign Language\n\n\nGetting out and about – sign with confidence in a wide range of real-life situations, from travelling to dating\n\n\nLooking into Deaf life – learn about the history of the Deaf Community and how they’ve adapted their technology and lifestyles to suit their needs\n\n\nFor corrections to this book, please click here:\nhttp://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileyblackwell/BSLcorrectionslip.pdf

Children are able to communicate by signing before they develop the skills necessary for speech. By teaching sign language to children from as young as seven months we can help them to convey their emotions and their needs. This first signing guide for hearing and deaf children contains over forty key signs. Designed for parents and carers to share with babies, with it's simple and clear instructions and endearing illustrations, this book is an ideal introduction to signing. A helpful tip is given at the bottom of each page to help beginners get started. Makaton compatible.

This product contains a book and DVD.Do you want to be able to understand and use British Sign Language confidently? All you need is this best-selling course. Learn everyday, useful BSL through real-life situations that make the grammar and vocabulary easy and memorable. Hundreds of line illustrations throughout the book and constant references to video clips on the DVD make learning fast and fun.British Sign Language (BSL) is used in the United Kingdom. The number of Deaf people in the UK using BSL has been put at about 50,000; there are in addition many more hearing people who use BSL to communicate with Deaf users. Sign languages are not related to spoken languages and BSL is completely different, for example, from American Sign Language. Sign language conveys meaning through the use of space and movement of the hands, body, face and head. We know that many hearing people are keen to learn BSL (it is a very popular evening class course, for example). But there is a lack of good teaching materials written in English for hearing learners of BSL, which this course fills. Get Started in British Sign Language follows the BSL curricula taught currently in colleges (Council for the Advancement of Communication with Deaf People CACDP and Institute of BSL) and therefore will be able to be used as support material by learners, as well as providing a complete grounding in the structure and grammar of BSL. FlexibleLearn in your own time and at your own paceTime savingLearn quickly with one- and five-minute essentialsExpertWritten by Deaf authorsInformativeSections of Deaf cultureJargon-freeLearn the grammatical features of BSL with easePracticalReinforce your learning with examples and exercisesAuthenticLearn everyday BSL through real-life situationsDVD (MP4 compatible)Video clips provided on a 60-minute DVD Teach Yourself British Sign Language includes:Chapter 1: Starting out with BSL structureChapter 2: More about Deaf peopleChapter 3: BSL StructuresChapter 4: Deaf culture and BSL etiquetteChapter 5: Introduction to facial expressionsChapter 6: Asking 'wh-' questionsChapter 7: Asking 'yes'/'no' questionsChapter 8: More about questionsChapter 9: How to use facial expressionsChapter 10: BSL mouth patternsChapter 11: Starting out with fingerspellingChapter 12: Learning to fingerspellChapter 13: Reading fingerspellingChapter 14: Fingerspelling signsChapter 15: Using fingerspelling in conversationChapter 16: Other fingerspelt words: monthsChapter 17: Starting out with placementChapter 18: Describing a roomChapter 19: Introduction to referent handshapesChapter 20: Understanding switchingChapter 21: Describing a room from memoryChapter 22: Understanding someone describing a scene from memoryChapter 23: Starting out with directionsChapter 24: Directions - describing localitiesChapter 25: Complex directions: adding more informationChapter 26: Using directions with landmarksChapter 27: ColoursChapter 28: What next?Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for over 75 years.

This is the first textbook dealing specifically with British sign linguistics. It provides essential support for learners of British Sign Language and others interested in the structure and use of BSL, and assumes no previous knowledge of linguistics and sign language. Technical terms and linguistic jargon are kept to a minimum. The book contains over three hundred illustrations and an index of signs and sign phrases. There are also exercises and a reading list for further independent study.

Sign Language Link was first published in March 1998 in pocket book format and the contents were refined and revised in March 1999. The accessible, convenient pocket edition continues to be immensely popular with beginners. Intended to supplement Deaf Awareness and sign language classes, it will be continually revised, updated and expanded in response to need. Comments and suggestions are always welcome. The Appendices now include notes of guidance for communication with people with combined sight and hearing loss alongside the illustrated deafblind manual, with the British two-handed and American one-handed fingerspelling alphabets from the first edition. The Useful Address section is fully updated, and a comprehensive Index has been added. The addition of the PREFACE sets the scene that calls for change. In spite of the Disability Discrimination Act of 1995, deaf people's needs remain little understood by professionals and the general public alike. Until British Sign Language is given equal status to other minority language, the Deaf community will remain an oppressed minority. Contains 360 illustrations of everyday signs in alphabetical order of the English headings. The headings give each sign's meanings in context, with explanatory captions of how the sign is made and details of facial/bodily expressions and other variations of the same sign. 168 pages paperback published 1999 by Co-Sign Communications, Stockton on Tees.

Learn how to sign with your baby with the latest title in the popular Terry the Monkey series of sign language books for children. Signs in this book include everything your baby will need in order to communicate their needs and share their observations of the world around them. As Joe Jacobs explains, 'Most babies say their first words at around 12 months' old, but babies are able to sign from as young as 7 months' old. The muscles required for speech, in the throat and larynx, take longer to develop than the hand and arm muscles needed to sign. My own children began signing at around 8 months' old. Signing can significantly reduce frustration and gives you an insight into your baby's thoughts months before they can speak.'This book contains all the signs you will need to teach your baby how to communicate their needs and observations, including milk, mummy, daddy, more, hug, I love you, park, swings, toys, funny, play, brother, sister, wash hands, please, sleep, bed, bath, coat, hat and many more. The Terry the Monkey books have featured in Little London magazine and Familes, the magazine of the National Deaf Children's Society, as well as limpingchicken.com, the world's most popular deaf blog. Joe's work has been praised by former children's laureate Julia Donaldson, BBC's Steve Backshall and Oscar winner and deafness awareness campaigner Rachel Shenton. This book contains tips on signing and a list of the benefits of signing with babies. A great gift for any new parent.

'sign Language Companion' Aims To Help Young People Become More Fluent In British Sign Language By Presenting Signs That Link Ideas And Concepts, And Enabling Students To Construct Their Own Combinations In Everyday Conversations. Cath Smith ; Illustrated By David Hodgson. A Condor Book. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 141) And Index.