American Sign Language Concise Dictionary - Softcover

Sternberg, Martin L.A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060809965 ISBN 13: 9780060809966

Publisher: HarperReference, 1990

Synopsis

A portable but comprehensive dictionary of American Sign Language contains fifteen hundred commonly used words and phrases, each illustrated and cross-referenced

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Review

"The most comprehensive and clearly written dictionary of sign language ever published."-- "Los Angeles Times"

About the Author

Martin L. A. Sternberg, Ed.D., is a native New Yorker. Deaf since the age of seven, he has spent most of his career working with deaf people. The idea for this book came from Dr. Elizabeth Peet, Dr. Sternberg's sign language teacher at Gallaudet University (for the deaf), in Washington, DC. Dr. Sternberg kept Dr. Peet's ideas and methods, but expanded the work greatly. Early work on the project received a federal grant from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare to New York University, the sponsoring institution. A graduate of the City College of New York, American University, and New York University, Dr. Sternberg has enjoyed a distinguished career as a teacher at Gallaudet, New York, Hofstra, and Adelphi Universities. HE is currently chairman of the board of trustees of Lexington School for the Deaf and Lexington Center for the Deaf. He is the author of four ASL dictionaries and a Codies Award-winning CD-ROM, all published by HarperCollins. He also received Emmy and Peabody nominations for his ASL series by the NBC network, "Speaking With Your Hands," as well as medals at various international film and television festivals.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperReference
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060809965
• ISBN 13: 9780060809966
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 607