The easy way for kids (and parents) to learn American Sign Language. There has never been a better way to start learning American Sign Language. Ideal for parents of nonverbal children or children with communication impairments (ages 3-6), American Sign Language for Kids offers a simple way to introduce both of you to ASL. Build your vocabularies with 101 signs perfect for everyday use, all featuring detailed illustrations, memory tips, and hands-on...

"An astonishingly revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell, telling the true-and troubling-story of the inventor of the telephone. We think of Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but that's not how he saw his own career. Bell was an elocution teacher by profession. As the son of a deaf woman and, later, husband to another, his goal in life from adolescence was to teach the deaf to speak. Even his tinkering sprang from his...

A video demonstrating the proper way to communicate with people with disabilities.

Newly revised and updated, this compassionate and authoritative guide is based on Libby Kumin's thirty years of experience of working with children and adolescents with Down syndrome and their families. Dr Kumin draws on her vast experience to show parents how they can support and encourage their child's speech and language development from birth to age 6 (or when a child can form 2- to 3-word sentences). Parents and teachers learn how to work through...

Este livro representa uma cuidadosa contribuição de profissionais da área de Educação Especial para a ampliação e o fortalecimento de informações sobre surdocegueira. Sua abordagem, para além da disponibilidade e do envolvimento pessoal e profissional das autoras, sua coerência e seu rigor metodológicos, derivados de diversos estudos e pesquisas, resultam em uma mensagem de esperança e compromisso com a construção de...