Using original sources, this unique book focuses on the Deaf community during the nineteenth century. Largely through schools for the deaf, deaf people began to develop a common language and a sense of community. "A Place of Their Own" brings the per...

This second book of "Japanese: The Spoken Language" continues a course in modern spoken Japanese that teaches current usage through drills and functional exchanges. The series is entirely romanized. Accompanying audio and video materials are availabl...

Originally published in 1949 and appearing now for the first time in a paperbound edition, Buck's "Dictionary" remains an indispensable tool for diachronic analysis of the Indo-European languages. Arranged according to the meaning of words, the work...

This full-color picture book helps children learn their numbers in sign language. Each two-page spread of this delightfully illustrated book has the appropriate number of things or creatures for the numbers 0 through 20. The signs for the numbers 30,...

This book is the first comprehensive bibliography of recent work in the rapidly developing field of natural language processing and computational linguistics. It contains essentially all the relevant 1980s papers to be found in AAAI, ACL, AISB, COLIN...

"Chris was having trouble with his ears. He just couldn't hear right... every time anyone said anything, Chris would shout "'WHAT'?". "Chris Gets Ear Tubes" explains what happens before, during, and after the surgery in language a child understands....

Everyone treats Biney Richmond, 13 and hard of hearing, as though she should be wrapped in cotton, until she proves to everyone how grown up she really is during a crisis with a friend.

Throughout the last two centuries, a controversial question has plagued the field of education of the deaf: should sign language be used to communicate with and instruct deaf children? Never the Twain Shall Meet focuses on the debate over this questi...

"The Signed English Schoolbook" provides vocabulary for teachers and others who serve school-age children and adolescents and covers the full range of school activities. It also gives parents the language they need to be actively involved in their ch...

This first book of "Japanese: The Spoken Language" initiates a course in modern spoken Japanese that teaches current usage through drills and functional exchanges. The series is entirely romanized. Accompanying audio and video materials are available