What is American Sign Language?
"Learn about the history of American Sign Language, from its origins in older signed languages to its role in the education of deaf and hearing children today in this illustrated chapter book!"-- Provided by publisher.
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New York, NY :
Penguin Workshop,
[2026]
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Table of Contents:
- What is American Sign Language?
- Reading the signs
- Signing through the centuries
- Everyone here signed
- Home and abroad
- A language grows
- Slavery and segregation
- The war of methods
- Surprise findings
- Separate paths, different languages
- Asl takes a bow
- The good and the bad
- What about now?
- Timelines
- Bibliography.
