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Try Your Hand at This
Kathy Macmillan
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Description for Try Your Hand at This
paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: WZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 350.
American Sign Language is more than just an assortment of gestures. It is a full-fledged unique language, with all the characteristics of such. This helpful and user-friendly guide for librarians and other library personnel involved in library programming demonstrates everything from how to set up programming involving sign language for all ages to dealing with and paying interpreters. The book also discusses how to publicize programs to the public and within the deaf community and how to evaluate and improve the library's sign language collection. Kathy MacMillan's impressive understanding and knowledge of the deaf community and the importance of sign ... Read more
American Sign Language is more than just an assortment of gestures. It is a full-fledged unique language, with all the characteristics of such. This helpful and user-friendly guide for librarians and other library personnel involved in library programming demonstrates everything from how to set up programming involving sign language for all ages to dealing with and paying interpreters. The book also discusses how to publicize programs to the public and within the deaf community and how to evaluate and improve the library's sign language collection. Kathy MacMillan's impressive understanding and knowledge of the deaf community and the importance of sign ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810854475
SKU
V9780810854475
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Kathy Macmillan
Kathy MacMillan is an American Sign Language interpreter, consultant, children's performer, and librarian. She served as Library/Media Specialist at the Maryland School for the Deaf in Columbia, MD from 2001 to 2005.
Reviews for Try Your Hand at This
Library program planners will want to read Kathy MacMillan's new book, Try Your Hand at This: Easy Ways to Incorporate Sign Language into Your Programs. MacMillan explains how to work with interpreters to provide programming to the deaf community and dispels some of the myths about deafness and sign language. She also addresses how to set up programming involving sign ... Read more